Re: Another 'not a Wigan performance' Shaun : Fri Aug 29, 2014 8:51 pm  

Absolute garbage again wished I had stayed at home at flushed the cash down the bog.

Re: Another 'not a Wigan performance' Shaun : Fri Aug 29, 2014 8:53 pm  

Absolutly shocking nothing I can say I also left early Wigan were pathetic

Re: Another 'not a Wigan performance' Shaun : Fri Aug 29, 2014 8:55 pm  

I'm not here to bag SW, I'm certainly not here saying he should go as he's done a great job for us since Madge left. Some of the tactics though are worrying:

Charnley into the scrum as prop on defence, Widnes put the ball wide to Ah-Van who squeezes in the corner.

2nd half Charnley does it again....WTF???

Re: Another 'not a Wigan performance' Shaun : Fri Aug 29, 2014 9:20 pm  

Ziggy Stardust wrote:

Were OK, no recruitment required for next year..

I got panned on here for criticising the lack of player recruitment next year given the loss of experienced players such as Green & Goulding - in IL we trust they said. We will be lucky not to get relegated next year!

Re: Another 'not a Wigan performance' Shaun : Fri Aug 29, 2014 9:27 pm  

lemonhead wrote:

I got panned on here for criticising the lack of player recruitment next year given the loss of experienced players such as Green & Goulding - in IL we trust they said. We will be lucky not to get relegated next year!

Wouldn't go that far mate but Trophy's might be hard to come by. If we go out early in the play-off's IL might start looking to Aus again (for a coach) Remember SW is the one keeping on and signing certain players that are not good enough.

Re: Another 'not a Wigan performance' Shaun : Fri Aug 29, 2014 9:48 pm  

We conceded 17 penalties and made 19 errors... WTF?

[DaveO]

Re: Another 'not a Wigan performance' Shaun : Fri Aug 29, 2014 9:53 pm  

If team has looked like strangers for the last four games Wane needs to take some of the blame because I am pretty certain not all the changes he has made have been forced on him.

There is not time to be resting or rotating players when he needs to get them playing as a team. He has had injuries to deal with but then has often rested a player or two at the same time.

It's as if he is coaching a junior side and he wants to give everyone a game before the end of the season!

Whoever is first team is, if they are fit they need to play from now on or we will exit the playoffs in round one with another bunch of strangers representing Wigan rather than a team.

Re: Another 'not a Wigan performance' Shaun : Fri Aug 29, 2014 9:56 pm  

Personnel isn't the problem IMO, there's clearly an issue with attitude and preparation. One bad performance against a lower team is forgivable, but we have now been absolutely awful away at Wakefield, Hull KR, Bradford and Widnes. Every time we've put a strong "on paper" squad out and had players coming back from injury we've been well off the pace. We've had 2 weeks out of 4 off to really push for top spot and build momentum going in to the play offs, at this rate it's pretty conceivable we could be drop out of the top 4. The fact that could happen and we could still end up being champions is ridiculous, I really can't wait til we get rid of this awful league system.

Re: Another 'not a Wigan performance' Shaun : Fri Aug 29, 2014 10:04 pm  

I think that if you look at our performance over the season we haven't really played well but we can put some of that down to the fact that we have had a lot of injuries for a lot of the time. We are now in the position were we are getting players back ( Green 2 weeks ago, Micky Mac, Thornley etc etc) and are hoping to play a stronger team nearer to full strength. Unfortunately we need these players to gel again fairly quickly and get back on form.
We all know we play a very "structured" game and other teams have often said "We know what Wigan are going to do but we just cant stop it". Unfortunately that structured game needs a lot of work to keep it to the standard that is required. Tonight for me showed how we haven't got back to that standard. How many times did we move the ball across the line (especially towards our left wing) and the ball was passed onto the floor? Our "structured" game was very slow and a bit shoddy which allows the opposition to get players into our line. I know conditions weren't good but we still struggled.
Our problem is that we only have two more games before the play offs to get ourselves sorted and lets face it the games are against Leeds and Wire so they wont be easy games that we can use as training sessions.

Re: Another 'not a Wigan performance' Shaun : Fri Aug 29, 2014 10:07 pm  

WARRIORCRAIG wrote:

Personnel isn't the problem IMO, there's clearly an issue with attitude and preparation. One bad performance against a lower team is forgivable, but we have now been absolutely awful away at Wakefield, Hull KR, Bradford and Widnes. Every time we've put a strong "on paper" squad out and had players coming back from injury we've been well off the pace. We've had 2 weeks out of 4 off to really push for top spot and build momentum going in to the play offs, at this rate it's pretty conceivable we could be drop out of the top 4. The fact that could happen and we could still end up being champions is ridiculous, I really can't wait til we get rid of this awful league system.

We won't win it from any position unless we improve 100% and i'm not sure we can. Leeds and Saints look stronger than us.

Seems like we have lost our edge completely, hope we can get it back.