HKR had a good go, I never thought they would win it. Marshall and Bibby were poor today, Burgess would have been chased out of the town by a pitchfork waving mob if he had made the errors Marshall made today.
Will Marshall get dropped?
Marshall went for glory when he made that break had Farrell on the inside as well as Hastings triad to go round and got found out.
Well we made hard work of that. Hats off to KR though they played well and were the better team.
I wouldn't go as far to say they were the better team but they had a real good crack at us. Looking at it objectively though their three tries all came from Wigan mistakes (2 x loose pass full lengthers and the kick to the corner dropped ball from Marshall).
The ruck is a worry for me, too many yards made with Wigan players running back facing their own line and getting caught out (taught in schools at 7 year old to run facing the opposition). Offloads remain a big issue, discipline and our field kicking from Tommy.
Other than that I'm not going to be TOO critical, we got the win and we never needed to really get out of 2nd gear again.
One last thing I will mention is the 3rd man running in at the legs problem we had a number of years ago, seemed to be creeping back into our game which isn't needed (Flower on report so may lose him for a match, would have to have a look at it again).
Wire_91 wrote:its your first final in about 8 years and now you ravin and rantin about it F**k off, and ill be going old trafford tomoz cheering on the saints and ill be writing on this forum givin you loads of shi* when your drying you eyes and the wire fan will be here handing out the tissues in the thousands, thats if you do take that many fans cause now it looks like its your fans who have jumped on the band wagon now your in a final, this time last year there was only 1000 people in the jjb and now its fillin up cause youve won the league hahaha proper true supporters you are
HKR had a good go, I never thought they would win it. Marshall and Bibby were poor today, Burgess would have been chased out of the town by a pitchfork waving mob if he had made the errors Marshall made today.
Will Marshall get dropped?
Was waiting for this type of comment. There’s a difference for me and that’s Marshall having money in the bank. His form has been excellent for weeks and also for weeks at the back end of last season. In comparison Burgess has been off colour for a similar amount of time, after starting last season pretty well.
Burgess didn’t just have one off game, he had a number of them over a few months. If Marshall keeps today’s form up for a few weeks then we have a question but I doubt he will.
Truly awful performance, attitude seemed off from the start, apart from the result I don't see how anybody could take any positives from that. Back to square one after the last couple of weeks improvement, not 100% sure who it was who got put on report (Flower ?) but they can expect a ban, looked awful from my angle.
Marshall went for glory when he made that break had Farrell on the inside as well as Hastings triad to go round and got found out.
Sounds like over confidence to me. Nothing a good dressing down wouldn’t solve. Dropping him is completely disproportionate IMO. He’s been far and out our best winger and deserves his place. If that form or show boating continues then there’s an argument for it.
Really pleased to hear Havard has a stormer. I remember watching him v the Aussies and they were absolutely terrified of him. Seems he has found his feet in SL, long may it continue.
Truly awful performance, attitude seemed off from the start, apart from the result I don't see how anybody could take any positives from that. Back to square one after the last couple of weeks improvement, not 100% sure who it was who got put on report (Flower ?) but they can expect a ban, looked awful from my angle.
Today for me showed where we are at Hard to beat but not championship standard Too slow and not enough grunt up front Still an improvement on last year Thought Havard was good and deserved his place
I’d make George Burgess play 80 minutes for the reserves for the next few weeks and make his lungs burn. He’s in dire need of that sort of pain if he wants to become a top line prop rather than a parody of a marquee prop
Stop protecting the guy and make him earn his corn
Thought HKR were very decent and light years ahead of Toronto. Good honest performance from those guys