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Wire_91 wrote:its your first final in about 8 years and now you ravin and rantin about it F**k off, and ill be going old trafford tomoz cheering on the saints and ill be writing on this forum givin you loads of shi* when your drying you eyes and the wire fan will be here handing out the tissues in the thousands, thats if you do take that many fans cause now it looks like its your fans who have jumped on the band wagon now your in a final, this time last year there was only 1000 people in the jjb and now its fillin up cause youve won the league hahaha proper true supporters you are

Re: Saints (a) : Sat Mar 30, 2024 1:58 am  
Not watched it back.

Think saints were the better side on the 80 mins.

Felt like we were well on top just before the red card, they couldn’t handle us at the time, the away end was going wild.

Both teams are the best in the league by a mile.

I wasn’t convinced on Luke Thompson but by god he was immense today.

I also wouldn’t swap Brad O’Neill for anyone in SL
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Re: Saints (a) : Sat Mar 30, 2024 2:28 am  
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Not watched it back.

Think saints were the better side on the 80 mins.

Felt like we were well on top just before the red card, they couldn’t handle us at the time, the away end was going wild.

Both teams are the best in the league by a mile.

I wasn’t convinced on Luke Thompson but by god he was immense today.

I also wouldn’t swap Brad O’Neill for anyone in SL


Thompson was absolutely sensational I thought, in fact it’s only fair him and Walmsley aren’t at the same club anymore because both were scary good. I agree on O’Neill, I’m sick of him not getting the praise he deserves now. He should be Englands hooker for my money. He absolutely walloped any Saints player that went near him. He is a special talent.
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Re: Saints (a) : Sat Mar 30, 2024 6:00 am  
Nsemba should have been on the minute we scored, gone for the jugular, we were crying out for an offload game to break them down
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Re: Saints (a) : Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:06 am  
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Aye, nowt in it.

Felt it was a weird game today. I thought we looked comfortable for most of the day and the game was there for the taking but you can’t give so many penalties away and make so many errors and expect to come through. I respect Saints massively and always felt beating them to any trophy this season will be a challenge (as it will be the other way) but I probably feel more confident of doing that after today. We’ve got loads of improvement in us.

Agree with this. More confident after yesterday that we'll add to our silverware this season.

Small moments in the game went their way; the Lees tackle not being picked up, then a tackle later Dupree being sin binned. The video ref recommending a yellow, but Kendall choosing red on Byrne. And don't get me started on the penalties and six agains in the first 40.

The above coupled with we're way off at the moment, makes me optimistic. I felt similar after the Good Friday derby at their place in 2022; we competed well but they were too strong on the day. A few weeks later we turned them over to get to Tottenham.
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Re: Saints (a) : Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:56 am  
As a neutral watching the game and wishing my shower played with that much intensity.Was some absolute cracking tackles.The got the Dupree one right as Lees had just slipped and he caught him on the chest then rode up so yellow fair….was a couple by Sts that was debateable and the Byrne one was a red
under the new guidlines.All teams have had less tackles punished than Byrnes.Was Field carrying a knock as he just didnt look right and not his usual zip.
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Re: Saints (a) : Sat Mar 30, 2024 8:25 am  
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As a neutral watching the game and wishing my shower played with that much intensity.Was some absolute cracking tackles.The got the Dupree one right as Lees had just slipped and he caught him on the chest then rode up so yellow fair….was a couple by Sts that was debateable and the Byrne one was a red
under the new guidlines.All teams have had less tackles punished than Byrnes.Was Field carrying a knock as he just didnt look right and not his usual zip.


I havent watched the game back but I thought Field was pretty annoymous for most of it and made some uncharacteristic errors. Just didnt seem to have his mind on the game
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Re: Saints (a) : Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:39 am  
It was a tough game for any of the key attacking players on either side to make an impact to be fair to Field. I saw a Saints fan on Twitter saying Field and French went missing but did Welsby and Lomax do anymore? I thought it was as quiet as I’ve seen Welsby against us. I thought Dodd was far better than he’s been in the last year or two and it’s good to see him getting his form and confidence together.

Ultimately for Wigan we can’t look past the errors and discipline issues. We sort them out the next time we play Saints and it’s a different result. That took an immense defensive effort from Saints and some key calls to scrape home. If I was looking at how both sides can improve next time, I think there’s far more in Wigan than Saints based on that, so to be ahead with 12 men and 8 minutes left gives me plenty of cause for optimism.
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Re: Saints (a) : Sat Mar 30, 2024 10:13 am  
So as it stands we have lost 1 game with a game in hand,we are GF winners,LLS winners,WCC winners.
Saints,lost 1 game,no games in hand,nothing in the Trophy Cupboard.

Nothing to worry as we can get better as the season goes on,looks like Saints/Wigan combo for the trophies this year unless a upset occurs (you never know).
Great game,over now next onto Leigh another full house as the champions turn up.
Tough game at Leigh and Wigan will need to get over the defeat to our loved ones quickly and get switched on for this.
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Re: Saints (a) : Sat Mar 30, 2024 10:16 am  
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It was a tough game for any of the key attacking players on either side to make an impact to be fair to Field. I saw a Saints fan on Twitter saying Field and French went missing but did Welsby and Lomax do anymore? I thought it was as quiet as I’ve seen Welsby against us. I thought Dodd was far better than he’s been in the last year or two and it’s good to see him getting his form and confidence together.

Ultimately for Wigan we can’t look past the errors and discipline issues. We sort them out the next time we play Saints and it’s a different result. That took an immense defensive effort from Saints and some key calls to scrape home. If I was looking at how both sides can improve next time, I think there’s far more in Wigan than Saints based on that, so to be ahead with 12 men and 8 minutes left gives me plenty of cause for optimism.


Curious what makes you think there’s more improvement left in you than us? Our attack didn’t look the best, but we made more chances than you did and even the one chance you made was just a moment of magic from an individual. As a unit I thought you never looked like scoring. We didn’t either really, but we did make a couple of chances and on another day could have scored a few. I’d put the lack of chances down to defence from both sides than attacks being that bad. You’ve got a few forwards to come back, likewise we were without Bell who’s probably been our best attacking player this year, and Paasi who is a wrecking ball. Blake too who whilst hasn’t been great, has looked to be improving and could grow as the year goes on. He’s certainly got the attributes to improve if his attitude is right. I can see plenty of improvement to come for both teams.

If you’re waiting for our defence to soften I wouldn’t hold your breath! We have conceded an average of 7 points per game over the 6 games, and almost half of the points we conceded have been when we were down to 12. It’s always going to take something special to open us up despite everybody thinking Hurrell and co are liabilities. In reality it doesn’t really happen. Thought we dealt with whatever you threw really comfortably, marked the likes of Field out of the game, didn’t allow Smith to do anything either and we also did a good job on French, the difference being he’s just a special player who can conjure something like he did.
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Re: Saints (a) : Sat Mar 30, 2024 10:23 am  
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It was a tough game for any of the key attacking players on either side to make an impact to be fair to Field. I saw a Saints fan on Twitter saying Field and French went missing but did Welsby and Lomax do anymore? I thought it was as quiet as I’ve seen Welsby against us. I thought Dodd was far better than he’s been in the last year or two and it’s good to see him getting his form and confidence together.

Ultimately for Wigan we can’t look past the errors and discipline issues. We sort them out the next time we play Saints and it’s a different result. That took an immense defensive effort from Saints and some key calls to scrape home. If I was looking at how both sides can improve next time, I think there’s far more in Wigan than Saints based on that, so to be ahead with 12 men and 8 minutes left gives me plenty of cause for optimism.


I totally agree on the errors and discipline points. We didn’t help ourselves and despite some great defending eventually something had to give. I think that we can play a lot better but not sure how much more Saints can offer from an attacking point of view.
I’m a fan of Lomax but it’s obvious to see that his best days are behind him. He will show the odd glimpse of his past but they will be few and far between. I think that this applies to Farrell these days too. We need Farrell for his brilliant defence but his attacking threat is almost non existent these days.
Still scratching my head on the low minutes of Leeming and Mago and for the life of me just don’t understand why Nsemba was on the bench if we were not going to play him. It will be interesting to see how those 3 go against Leyth.
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