Terrible : Fri Mar 11, 2016 8:40 pm  

Are we coached at all? To say the majority of this team know each other well, we are embarrassingly clueless with the ball.

I'd love SW to sit me down with a highlight reel of Sam Powell and explain just what he offers.

Re: Terrible : Fri Mar 11, 2016 8:53 pm  

Some people are hard to please. We have been totally dominant, unlucky with the VR and one pass away from scoring several more. That will have taken a lot out of Leeds who have done very well to stay in the game so far. So far we are doing the basics very well, winning possession and position and a few dropped balls away from being about 20 up and you call them terrible?

Re: Terrible : Fri Mar 11, 2016 9:02 pm  

As a Leeds fan id said you were doing

Good n defence
Good in returning kicks
Good in making metres
Disappointing once you're in the final 20m

But understandable with the pivots you've got missing.

Re: Terrible : Fri Mar 11, 2016 9:08 pm  

Trainman wrote:

Some people are hard to please. We have been totally dominant, unlucky with the VR and one pass away from scoring several more. That will have taken a lot out of Leeds who have done very well to stay in the game so far. So far we are doing the basics very well, winning possession and position and a few dropped balls away from being about 20 up and you call them terrible?

I expect a certain standard of rugby from one of the top tier teams. We are working hard against the worst Leeds team in a long time. To be only 6 points up with all this possession is garbage. If we had half an idea we would be 20 points up now.

It isn't hard to make yards against this Leeds team, it isn't hard to defend against this Leeds team. What you mention is nothing more than doing the basics, beyond that we are awful.

Re: Terrible : Fri Mar 11, 2016 9:42 pm  

Leeds came to "park the coach"... Could only hold for so long... Worn em down. Credit to Leeds really that they held on as long as they did.

Re: Terrible : Fri Mar 11, 2016 9:45 pm  

Wigan Peer wrote:

Leeds came to "park the coach"... Could only hold for so long... Worn em down. Credit to Leeds really that they held on as long as they did.

The combination of players who left and the injuries, no disrespect to the Leeds player tonight, but that team is dire. We have made something that should have been straight forward look very very hard.

Re: Terrible : Fri Mar 11, 2016 9:55 pm  

ChrisA wrote:

I expect a certain standard of rugby from one of the top tier teams. We are working hard against the worst Leeds team in a long time. To be only 6 points up with all this possession is garbage. If we had half an idea we would be 20 points up now.

It isn't hard to make yards against this Leeds team, it isn't hard to defend against this Leeds team. What you mention is nothing more than doing the basics, beyond that we are awful.

28 - 6 against the treble winners from last year, terrible that is.

Re: Terrible : Fri Mar 11, 2016 9:56 pm  

ChrisA wrote:

The combination of players who left and the injuries, no disrespect to the Leeds player tonight, but that team is dire. We have made something that should have been straight forward look very very hard.

Last time i looked, they came with 17... I think you do Leeds an injustice. But some Wigan fans will never be happy, so i'll leave you too your misery, while i celebrate 5 from 5...

Re: Terrible : Fri Mar 11, 2016 11:10 pm  

I'll be honest at 6-0 with all the field position/possession we had and how easily we were making yards I was disappointed to not have more points on the board. Of course we had one of our main pivots missing so it was always going to be a bit disjointed but had it not been for a bit of a Leeds collapse in the second half that lack of finishing in the final 20 could have come back to haunt us.

I was impressed with our Defence, Our discipline also seems like it has improved. and the postive is that when you consider we had the likes of Williams and Tomkins missing from an attacking point of view it can only get better.

as far as tonight is concerned we did what we needed to do to get the 2 points. Completely dominated Leeds up the middle. I've never seen us make such easy yards bringing the ball from our own line.

Re: Terrible : Fri Mar 11, 2016 11:14 pm  

Leeds had 6 players missing and Wigan had 5 missing. I'd say we had more quality in the stands as well so we can be pretty pleased with that. We can play a dam sight better even with that 17 but you really can't grumble when you've comfortably beat any Leeds team.

The thread being started because we looked terrible in attack when we're shy of our 1,6 and 9 really is very harsh. If you consider you have five pivots in a team (1,6,7,9 and 13) and we were missing three of them in comparison to Leeds who were missing one in McGuire we really need to take some credit.