Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Sun Apr 10, 2022 4:51 pm  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

The league is more important.

I knew I would get that response. The team are on a roll in the league and plenty of league matches to come so invalid in my opinion.

Every game is important and it’s the only chance to progress to a final in a game at home against a top 3 team with significant Trinity support live on freeview TV…

Looked like about 5000 at game to me….

Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Sun Apr 10, 2022 4:59 pm  

PopTart wrote:

To be honest I thought we were the better side for long stretches of the game.
Ultimately Wigan's defense beat us as we could get scores from all the pressure early on.

Better team won. Scoreline doesn't matter now.
Let's move on to beating Cas.

Wigan were the better team especially in the second half.

They seemed throughout the match to dominate the ruck, making easier yardage and moved it quicker playing with a faster tempo.

Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Sun Apr 10, 2022 5:02 pm  

Mago killed us for 20 minutes and we weren’t able to nullify him and his offloads, simply too big. We had a good thirty minutes but that’s the second time now. Onwards to Cas.

Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Sun Apr 10, 2022 5:35 pm  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

I think our lighter pack was found out today.

Weird. I thought the first forty minutes was the best the pack has been all season.

Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Sun Apr 10, 2022 5:37 pm  

Thought you were very good in the first half - got on the front foot with the 40/20s and didn't let us off the hook for a while. Lino is looking really good this year.

Some great counter attacks from some of our flair players helped us get in front and then when we scored early in the 2nd half that was pretty much it. A shame for the game that three of your best didn't make it - I'm sure they would have made a difference but impossible to tell how much.

Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Sun Apr 10, 2022 5:41 pm  

asmadasa wrote:

I knew I would get that response. The team are on a roll in the league and plenty of league matches to come so invalid in my opinion.

Every game is important and it’s the only chance to progress to a final in a game at home against a top 3 team with significant Trinity support live on freeview TV…

Looked like about 5000 at game to me….

Would agree with that figure.Definitely more there than last week. We're not trying that old tax fiddle again are we? Leave that to Rishi and his Mrs.

Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Sun Apr 10, 2022 6:13 pm  

MadDogg wrote:

Thought you were very good in the first half - got on the front foot with the 40/20s and didn't let us off the hook for a while. Lino is looking really good this year.

Some great counter attacks from some of our flair players helped us get in front and then when we scored early in the 2nd half that was pretty much it. A shame for the game that three of your best didn't make it - I'm sure they would have made a difference but impossible to tell how much.

I think it was over by halftime, we could not afford to look 3 scores up, yet go in a score down, that really showed at the start of the second half.
We threw the kitchen sink at Wigan with the players we had on the field, and they shut it all down, they numbered up right, got their one on ones and swept up all the kicks, outstanding defense tbf.
Dunno whether the players we had missing would have made that much difference, more times than not we needed to come away with something from the set starts we had in their half, Wigan did to us what they did to Salford, strangled the game with D.
Disappointed but no real complaints about the result.

Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Sun Apr 10, 2022 6:16 pm  

asmadasa wrote:

Missed Fifita, Johnstone and Miller big time in the Challenge Cup Quarter final….. never mind they’ll be fresh to play next Thursday in a league match…

Fifita would have helped counter act Wigans dominant pack.

Johnstone would have scored that disallowed try for Murphy in first half and been a constant threat like French and Field for Wigan.

Miller would have been more of a threat with ball in hand than Gaskell and defensively stronger.

Opportunity missed to create some excitement and greater interest in Trinity in my opinion going all out to progress in the cup with your best 17….

They were injured, why would you pick injured players?! For a final maybe, take risks, but for a q/f, no. What if 2 of them aggravates something and are out for weeks? Wigan's pack, for most of them being so young, is immense. In a couple years they will be the dominant force in the game. A reality check maybe a cliché, but that's what it was, it shows how far we've come doesn't it we are so disappointed?! I'm really enjoying watching us play under Poching, we have got some seriously talented young kids at the club, and who knows how far we can go. It certainly will be a test though now to get over that so quickly with the Easter period coming up, but unlike the last couple of seasons, I can't wait for the matches to come around

Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Sun Apr 10, 2022 6:26 pm  

Upanunder wrote:

I think it was over by halftime, we could not afford to look 3 scores up, yet go in a score down, that really showed at the start of the second half.
We threw the kitchen sink at Wigan with the players we had on the field, and they shut it all down, they numbered up right, got their one on ones and swept up all the kicks, outstanding defense tbf.
Dunno whether the players we had missing would have made that much difference, more times than not we needed to come away with something from the set starts we had in their half, Wigan did to us what they did to Salford, strangled the game with D.
Disappointed but no real complaints about the result.

Yeah, I said to me old man at half time I couldn’t see us playing as well as that first half again in the 2nd half whilst I always thought Wigan had a bit more in them!

Think there’s definitely a case to say missing players may have made a difference as Murphy scored one (superbly by the way) and but for fine margins could have had a hat trick…had that been Johnstone on the end he may have got a hat trick. Same with Big Dave…thought it was pretty even up front with Arona and Kelepi starting brilliantly but Wigan got a huge lift when Mago came on and he caused us all sorts of problems…maybe Dave could have done similar for us?

They look a top quality side do Wigan this year though and think they’ll give Saints a lot to think about…their defence first half was exceptional because we threw a hell of a lot at them behind a brilliant kicking game…

Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Sun Apr 10, 2022 6:38 pm  

Great effort from the lads thats all we can ask for.thought we natched them in forwards for long periods but the interchanges let us down for me batch was best with arona.but wigan who where more or less full strength are a quality side in field they have a player who will hurt any team onto to cas now hopefully get some bodies back and make it lucky 17 v them