Galloping Ghost wrote:
That Anthiny gelling is helpful though.
Really?
For his 2nd Start i though he performed very well. His finishing was poor but he ran with aggression and vigor. He has got the building blocks to become a very good player. Certainly cant knock his attitude.
I think that Wigan can be proud to have overcome Fev. I dont care that they are lower league team and a bunch of part timers. On the night they put in a performance that would have troubled any team in SL. They did exactly what the needed to do. Get in our faces, slow play down, banjo us in the tackle and score when the opportunity was there.
The niggled us all night and tbh i was a bit surprised that we never matched fire with fire. We seemed more concerned protesting the the ref when we received some ruff stuff in the tackle. We should have dished it out a bit more (especially after the blatant headbutt on Hansen). Are SL players becoming a bit soft compared to the ruff ar$e lower leaguers?
I can knock Wigans performance either tbh. Yes we spilt lots of ball, but when you try to play expansive rugby on a mudbath you will have a high error rate. The one thing that did pee me of however was who everyone stood round watching the ref after Finch was the victim of a 2 on 1 steal. I know that they got him in the end, but that summed up our attitude. We were waiting on Silverwood giving us a decision instead of playing to the whistle.
Overall pretty happy and think it took a hell of an effort of beating Fev last night. They really did themselves proud last night. I dont think we were poor. I just think Fev were outstanding.
For the record Silverwood was reffing two different games at one point. We were reffed at a SL standard, they were reffed at a NL1 standard. As sad as that is it was always going to be like that. Everybody in the game wanted to see the giant slayers beat the champs. Silverwood's smirk after awarding a Fev try showed that.
By the way the Brian Carney is an absolute b3ll 3nd. Some of the "Interpretations" he came up with last night where comical.
