Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Sun Apr 10, 2022 7:53 pm  

we were ok up to halt time, but it's an 80 minute game and we simply couldn't live with Wigan in the second 40,
Despite us thinking our fitness levels are up this season (which they may well be!) we're a bit behind Wigan in that department I'm afraid. They were much quicker than us in all departments in the second half.
Another worrying thing is that for all the pressure in the first half we had little to show for it, although Wigan seemed much better in defence than we were.

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Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Sun Apr 10, 2022 8:38 pm  

The first half was good for us.
But for really small margins we could have been 18-12 up.
When they got a quick try as the started second half the game just got away from us.

Ultimately Wigan defense win them the game for me.

Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Sun Apr 10, 2022 9:05 pm  

Wildmoggy wrote:

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

If they are injured fair enough I didn’t read that anywhere but why put 3 injured players in your 21 for the game?
I thought we’d lose 32:14 with that 17 so don’t need a reality check.

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Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Sun Apr 10, 2022 9:18 pm  

asmadasa wrote:

If they are injured fair enough I didn’t read that anywhere but why put 3 injured players in your 21 for the game?
I thought we’d lose 32:14 with that 17 so don’t need a reality check.

Willie explained Tom was ready but pulled up this morning.
Dave was always a doubt butvthey wanted to give him a late fitness test.
Miller same.
Each had a good replacement to cover so why risk them.

Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Sun Apr 10, 2022 10:20 pm  

I'm thinking there was probably a fair old dollop of obfuscation chucked in there.
Wigan coach said it himself, a new challenge.
They'd a set of tactics for the most likely team to take the field, I expect they had to shuffle that a little quite late in the day.
All's fair in love and war an all that.

Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Mon Apr 11, 2022 4:56 am  

Watching the game back ,we threw the kitchen sink at them the first half and they stood firm ,not enough questions asked in attack but with yet another half back partnership going into the game this was always going to be so . Can’t take anything away from Wigan ,and if any positives from the game ,it has give us a reality check as to where we need to be going forwards but it hasn’t cost us a league defeat to find that out . All that pressure on the Wigan’s line in the first quarter and nothing for it set the scene early doors for me , they simply absorbed everything we threw at them and countered superbly .I think we simply run out of energy in the second half with the amount of defence in the first and had no answer to their strike players who took their chances brilliantly.

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Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Mon Apr 11, 2022 6:27 am  

phe13 wrote:

I think that it was announced as 3700 plus, thought it would have been more.

Cheers - I thought around 4,300ish personally.

Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Mon Apr 11, 2022 6:44 am  

Wildthing wrote:

Cheers - I thought around 4,300ish personally.

Some on the Wigan board said they'd sold 1500 tickets a couple of days before the game, as far as I'm aware that Western terrace holds that many and it was far from full, the East stand and it's terracing was spread out as well so who knows, so long as the Wigan fans deposited they're hard earned in the ground and we made a few quid as well I'm happy
Back to reality this morning though

Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Mon Apr 11, 2022 7:26 am  

Great first half, really intense but, with all that possession we really needed some more points on the board and were very unfortunate not to go in at least level at HT.
Second half was a different matter altogether.
Whether Wigan raised the tempo or, whether we dropped off a bit, I'm not sure but, we couldn't live with them and the early score seemed to take the wind out of our sails.
To beat them, we needed TJ, Miller and Fifita playing and to play well for 80 minutes.

Gutted that we haven't made it through to the next round (again)

Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Mon Apr 11, 2022 9:25 am  

FIL wrote:

Well that's my reliable source blown out of the water then

Was it chip shop info FIL?