I know in the modern era it doesn't mean much to drop points at this time of the year. However we have dropped 5 points out of a possible 14 all to the teams around us at the top. We seem to be good at keeping out the lesser teams and piling the points up, however its in attack I think we struggle against the better teams. I don't know if its because we come up against a better defence of the fact we lose confidence a bit as we never seem to move the ball around against the likes of Warrington etc... Is it that we are handled better or the fact we play more safety conscious?

Rubbish Wigan! Wane out.

On a serious note, I think you'll see the best of us when we get our key forwards back and the pitches are dry. Green and Smith are still getting used to eachother yet. Be patient, we'll be fine.

We've dropped points to Huddersfield & Leeds, because man for man they are better than us at the moment. I expect to finish below Leeds this season - maybe Huddersfield too as long as they dont do their regular 2nd half of the season nose-dive. I certainly expect us to finish below Warrington and possibly even St Helens.

Weve lost 2 games against top 5 sides with half our pack and Tomkins missing! The over reaction on here and the other sites is cringeworthy!! We'll be fine! Our best 13 when everyone is fit is arguebly as good as anthing in Super league



Tomkins

Charnley

Goulding

Hughes/Thornley

Richards

Green

Smith

Prescott

McIlorum

Mossop

Hansen

Farrell

O Loughin



If we finish in the top 4, which IMO we will, then we have a massive chance of Winning the GF providing we dont pick up a lot of injuries.

For me the result means nothing.



It does, however, highlight the facts of the competition.



We could play immaculately all year, one game like last night and it's season over.

With a side missing Tomkins Mossop Prescott Hansen and Lauaki then losing Dudson I'm more than happy with that performance. To coin a Roberto Martinez phrase "there are plenty of positives"

I think that you could and should have won last night. You missed a trick by not constantly bombing Watkins at fullback at every opportunity. When you kicked to him from long range he was making 40 metres at a time, but on the 2-3 occasions that you bombed him he didn't have a clue where the ball was. You also need to give Charnley more protection in defence, he was badly exposed on occasions last night. Very impressed with Farrel again, he's really come on so far this year.

I’m not too worried at the minute, and I must say we have had a better start with the games we’ve had than I thought we would have at the beginning of the season. None of the big teams you speak of have found it easy against our, for what has been for the most part, very good defence. Wire needed luck on the night, and though I’m very happy with the way Blake Green is progressing with his partnership with Matty Smith, his missed tackle on Jones-Buck took the shine off what for the most part was a solid game. One or two who I thought were not up to par, Josh Charnley, and Jack Hughes, who makes me very anxious at times with some of his play. Pat at fullback was solid once again, even with a bit of an injury, Sean O’loughlin and Micky Mac, gave their usual top-gun performances, but for me Liam Farrell even at this early stage, must be putting down a bench-mark for Man of Steel. This young guy just gets better and better. Overall our young pack fell short in the battle with to theirs, but no sweat we will get better and we’ll be well fixed come September.



PS. my condolences to Shaun Wane and his family on the death of Shaun’s Father, God bless him.

I'm surprised that (actually maybe I'm not) Eddie and Stevo have missed the opportunity to say injury crisis in respect to Wigan's current line up.

Leeds played very, very well last night. Our young pack could not match their big, strong, experienced pack up front. Had we had all of our heavy hitters in, Prescott, Hansen & Eric it may have been a different story. I'm please with the performance, and can only mean good things for the rest of the season.

Anyone seen the missed tackle stats yet?

I just had the impression that we seemed to miss a helluva lot early doors, completely the opposite of earlier games this season.