: Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:15 pm  

Phuzzy wrote:

What a crock. Based on the last 3 games I would agree but there is no evidence for that based on tonights performance. We defended well and 1 try apart were only breached by good rugby (or a knock on). Not saying all is rosy by any means but at least enjoy what was a distinct improvement. I hate the f*cking whinging Wiganers. Makes me ashamed to have to count myself among the same supporters.

Simply recognising that improvement (and lots of it) is needed, there is nothing wrong with that

Better than sticking your head in the sand pretending all is rosy as it is far from it

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:17 pm  

kirkamania6 wrote:

Simply recognising that improvement (and lots of it) is needed, there is nothing wrong with that

Better than sticking your head in the sand pretending all is rosy as it is far from it

and I quote

Not saying all is rosy by any means

so now we can add an inability to read to the list....

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:18 pm  

Phuzzy wrote:

What a crock. Based on the last 3 games I would agree but there is no evidence for that based on tonights performance. We defended well and 1 try apart were only breached by good rugby (or a knock on). Not saying all is rosy by any means but at least enjoy what was a distinct improvement. I hate the f*cking whinging Wiganers. Makes me ashamed to have to count myself among the same supporters.

Sorry mate but your the crock, another very poor perfomance in defense and awful in attack until ST appeared, but keep clapping if you wish.

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:21 pm  

Babyface Finlayson wrote:

Sorry mate but your the crock, another very poor perfomance in defense and awful in attack until ST appeared, but keep clapping if you wish.

so that would be a win against a very solid Harlequins side. Yeah mate I'll keep clapping and enjoying my rugby. You can keep doing whatever it is you do...

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:25 pm  

Panda Antics wrote:

Course the Noble doubters are still here.

We were bloody awful tonight.

The youngsters did well but against a decent side tonight we'd have been tonked.

there is a god finaly some 1 talking sence go an look at "thank you young guns an have a look at the person called phuzzy abusing my quotes

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:26 pm  

Phuzzy wrote:

so that would be a win against a very solid Harlequins side. Yeah mate I'll keep clapping and enjoying my rugby. You can keep doing whatever it is you do...

Quote the whole point please mate, the defense is my most worrying point, we are woeful in that respect as we have been for over 12 months and seem to be going downhill still.

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:27 pm  

As i've posted elsewhere - let's not get carried away. 1st half we were poor and Quins could have run away with it. Fair play to Tomkins, he was the best thing (apart from the win) to come from the game...

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:27 pm  

i think phuzzy is brian noble undercover !

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:28 pm  

Phuzzy wrote:

so that would be a win against a very solid Harlequins side. Yeah mate I'll keep clapping and enjoying my rugby. You can keep doing whatever it is you do...

I thought we were shaky in defence against an average team who work hard, Sam tompkins gave us direction and always wanted the ball but i think Ainscough is not 100% ready in defence, those two will have their games picked out for them rather than playing week in week out.

We'll be there or there abouts come the end of the season, plenty of improvement in us, I even put money on us as outight winners last week at 25-1.

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:38 pm  

Babyface Finlayson wrote:

Quote the whole point please mate, the defense is my most worrying point, we are woeful in that respect as we have been for over 12 months and seem to be going downhill still.

What do you mean quote the whole point?

The defense was reasonably solid today and certainly an improvement on previous weeks. Our goal line defense, barring one occassion, was improved in particular by a large margin. Not perfect by a long way but certainly better than previous weeks. I don't like the '3 steps forward and hold' defense as I have posted elsewhere but we seemed to abandon this in the second half. Whether this was due to the players taking it into their own hands or Noble finally realising it doesn't work I don't know, but as long as we defend with the enthusiasm we did in the 2nd half and continue to improve week on week as we did this week from last I'll enjoy my rugby.

Moving along to the point I was actually making. This weekend we've seen losses for Saints, Bradford and Warrington...alll against 'lesser' opposition while Wigan go away to Harlequins, traditionally a tough assignment for us, and come away with a win. After the doom and gloom of recent weeks I expected to come on here and actually see some positive, maybe even celebratory ( ) posts on here. Of course I should have known better. Some Wigan fans couldn't enjoy a free night in a brothel!