BuckleyStreetWire wrote:
You're just not getting it are you? We're talking about coached "tactics" of continual foul play, purposely attempting to injure "road kill" to put up on changing room and training ground walls. Week-after-week the same type of tackling throughout the team. Not individual incidents like an eye gouge by one Leeds player or Westwoods' punch on Green in the '13 GF that Wigan fans always seem to bring up as their defence of their "tactics". These are just stupid brain farts that are terrible incidents but they are not part of a club ethos.
Yet when Flower had a "brain fart" it was a sign of how Wane coached the whole team. You can't have it both ways.
I'm definitely more attentive at games (which being in London I don't often get to do so) and I counted 2 for both Wigan and Saints of players going in at the knees of a stood up opponent at an angle. Mossop and Isa were the culprits on Wigans end, not sure of the Saints players but possibly second rowers? Tomkins' "horrendous" high tackle wasn't cited yet Matty Flemmings tackle in the air earned him a caution. They're under the microscope without a doubt, some of it justified - I remember a few game trot where quite a few players were chicken winging but then some of it is stuff happens week in week out at every game but Wigan are the ones who get brandished "thugs" for doing it.
I'm not going to say they're not deliberately not coached because I simply don't know - All I will say is if Wigan are they certainly aren't the only ones.
The "Roadkill Achieved" actually went hand in hand with a picture of a Wigan player, ball in hand, who'd steamrollered a defender - hence roadkill. Wether that makes the poster better or not I don't know but I'd certainly like to think professionals in the sport can work out a bit of hyperbole.
