: Fri Apr 10, 2009 12:34 am  

The Chair Maker wrote:

Wigan flattered to deceive.
The effort and passion were there, but they were playing a team that had just been in a real tough match at Headingley and who were naturally jaded.

Lets see how Wigan get on at Catalans, and the Magic weekend against Saints

Creatively Wigan were ordinary. They dominated possession and territory but couldnt do anything with it.
On the few occasions Saints were able to get into Wigans half we always looked like we were going to score.

What summed it up for me was that whenever Wigan took the lead, Saints had enough in the tank to raise their game a notch, go down the field and score.

Lets face it this was there cup final, they had to put everything into this match. They did, and came out with the wooden spoon.

Stop giving the game away la. We all saw how potentially jaded Saints mimicked the gameplay untill the sixty mark untill we could use the" we could twist the fake lack of energy to lull the enemy into a false sense of security in order to win a game on a we told you so styl-ee see if we dont but guess if you can spot the difference betweeen us running out of steam or us pretending we did but not really kind of or did we but it worked cause we scored more tries than you styl-ee" Is that a relevant Potter quote ah who knows type speech?

: Fri Apr 10, 2009 12:46 am  

Steven Soderbergh wrote:

Stop giving the game away la. We all saw how potentially jaded Saints mimicked the gameplay untill the sixty mark untill we could use the" we could twist the fake lack of energy to lull the enemy into a false sense of security in order to win a game on a we told you so styl-ee see if we dont but guess if you can spot the difference betweeen us running out of steam or us pretending we did but not really kind of or did we but it worked cause we scored more tries than you styl-ee" Is that a relevant Potter quote ah who knows type speech?

So says Hamball courtesy of Brian Cant and Floella Benjamen on behalf of Play School

: Fri Apr 10, 2009 7:15 am  

Wigan threw everything at us and with the posession and territorial advantage they had, for us to only concede 2 tries is an outstanding defensive performance.

Compared to the Leeds game we looked out of sorts in attack, but I always thought if we were in touch when Kieron came back on we would go on to win.

: Fri Apr 10, 2009 7:48 am  

shooter69 wrote:

7 tries to 3 mised 6 kicks say no more

It's still 12 points, which is close.

: Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:22 am  

The difference between Champion teams like St Helens, and teams like WIgan is that we know when to up the tempo and when to decrease the tempo. When we went behind I wasnt worried because I knew we would still win. Wigan to their credit threw everything at us, and we absorbed it and then kicked on when we needed to. There is no point playing the whole game at such a high intensity, after that bruising encounter against Leeds. A good coach will recognise when to up the intenisty.

4 players for Wigan stood out. Feka, Ainscough, Tomkins and Hock. Feka to his credit put a lot of work in and on that performance, looks a much fitter player than he did last season. Ainscough was everywhere and I am hoping he carries on his progression and makes a superb international winger. Hock is a wigan lad and ran himself into the ground for wigan, he is so devastating down the channells, but luckily for us, we have superb tacklers. Against another team he would have devasted them. Then there was Tomkins. I can see why the wigan fans rave over him. He is going to be something special.

Overall, chuffed with that. Wigan didnt just roll over for us like they used to. They just need to start getting themselves up for the hudds, cas, wakeys of SL and they will be there or thereabouts come the business end of the season.

: Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:31 am  

BobinRobins wrote:

you guys didn't deserve it tonight in my opinion wigan were fantasic!

Wigan didn`t deserve to win. They didn`t take their chances against a Saints team that made many errors in the first half, and it is the worst display I have seen from Saints so far.

: Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:33 am  

Arent the pies easily pleased these days.

3 wins from 9 including one win against a promoted team and the gifted win at Harlequins.

It wasnt a good game last night, We looked jaded( and who can blame us), didnt really fire in attack, and I cant remember the last time we lost the ball so much.

Despite this we showed how top sides win.

Defensively we put in a good performance against a team that lets face it has very little in the way of attacking ideas and took our chances well.

All this "the derby is back" love in is making me puke.

Despite what many wigan fans hope and pray - we are rebuilding they are STILL going backwards.

Cant wait for murrayfield

: Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:37 am  

I think the Leeds game took a lot out of us, I hope they get rested up and fully fit for the Hull game.
Wigan will have burned themselves out last night and will really struggle in Catalans on Monday.
I'm sure we'll paste Wigan at Murrayfield.

: Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:39 am  

Agree with a lot of what's been said. The Pies played with a lot of heart and guts. We made too many uncharacteristic errors and while Wigan had loads of possession and good position, they failed to capitalise in the way of points.

The King saved us late on. God Save the King.

: Fri Apr 10, 2009 11:20 am  

BobinRobins wrote:

you guys didn't deserve it tonight in my opinion wigan were fantasic!

If the Goonies "were Fantastic", what, pray rell, were the Saints. We won

And please don't say lucky or that we cheated