Re: Wigan Away - Thursday : Mon Sep 10, 2018 2:04 pm  

Lets not forget that Wigan have the best goal line defense in the league, they allowed us very little time once we were within 20 meters of there line, I don`t think it has been a problem for us, we seem to ship plenty of points past other teams and seem to create the opportunities when we are down ton the opponents line.

Re: Wigan Away - Thursday : Mon Sep 10, 2018 6:15 pm  

I think we're off the pace 10 yards out, not very clinical and struggle to get around a 5h1t or bust defensive line.
We have one ace in the hole and that's Pauli Pauli, as a brute force over or a foil.
I'd back us to score from 30 40+ yards out but not 10 unless we're rolling them over.

Re: Wigan Away - Thursday : Tue Sep 11, 2018 12:24 pm  

So as usual we get the wrong calls. Joe Greenwood up on a charge as purposely applying by forcefully twisting Crowther in the 14 minute had this been seen he should have got a red. The Grix incident they have said sin bin sufficient but the Ashurst they have admitted he actually makes a reasonable attempt to allow his head through the tackle. This is getting beyond a joke now.

Re: Wigan Away - Thursday : Tue Sep 11, 2018 12:54 pm  

Fordy wrote:

Or you could argue that Wigan didn't get pinged for it because we didn't make a fuss over them doing it to us by diving on the floor when trying to get up and play the ball, or by throwing arms up in exasperation at every tackle.
Either way, you have to admit that Wigan played the ref better than we did, as most sides seem to be able to do sadly.

Not to mention Clubb literally let's go of the ball and drops it to the floor. Yet it's a pen to Wiggin.

Re: Wigan Away - Thursday : Tue Sep 11, 2018 1:58 pm  

supercat wrote:

So as usual we get the wrong calls. Joe Greenwood up on a charge as purposely applying by forcefully twisting Crowther in the 14 minute had this been seen he should have got a red. The Grix incident they have said sin bin sufficient but the Ashurst they have admitted he actually makes a reasonable attempt to allow his head through the tackle. This is getting beyond a joke now.

The Ashurst sin binning was ridiculous for me, it really was not a yellow. Maybe Jordan should have stayed down and drawn attention to the tackle as the Wigan player did holding the back of his neck? Players seem to have a habit of doing that in televised games so that they go back and look at it. It is gamesmanship but if other teams are doing it then so should we.

Also on a separate point, Wigan fans complaining about us slowing down the ruck area, they have been guilty of this for years!! Granted they are smart in the way they do it, but they definitely do!