: Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:32 pm  

ksm1701 wrote:

I'm beginning to think my Mum knows more about rugby then Nobby.

Who is your Mum? , next coach of Wigan ?

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:36 pm  

jonh wrote:

No i do not, i "bleat" about performance. There is a major difference, something that you clearly cannot grasp.

I actually typed performance and then changed it - my apologies . You're constantly critical of boring rugby so I just thought you were after exciting rugby.

I clearly do grasp the difference beacuse I acknowledge Huddersfield put in a good 'performance' tonight but it wasn't 'exciting rugby' to watch.

Trouble is I also acknowledge Wigan's good performances when they grind out wins but you don't seem to. You're more interested in concentrating on the boring tactics employed then. You appear to have a lack of consistency in your argument.

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:50 pm  

Woody,your spot on with the posts you have made. On another night we very well could have won that game with a little bit more composure and it is nowhere near as bad as the battering they gave us last year when they stuffed us. We had enough chances to win it tonight but just couldn't compose ourselves. Hock knocking on over the line, Roberts going over the dead ball line and of course the obstruction from Robinson just to name 3.

Yes Bentham let Huddersfield play their game of spoiling tactics but we definitely scored the more attractive tries. We actually had scored more tries than them even when they was winning by 2 until the last 10 minutes, then we let another 2 soft tries in from kicks at the end. I'm not saying that we deserved to win though because we obviously didn't with the scoreline but I don't think it's as bad as performance as some of you are making it out to be.

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:52 pm  

Mini Rogue wrote:

Woody,your spot on with the posts you have made. On another night we very well could have won that game with a little bit more composure and it is nowhere near as bad as the battering they gave us last year when they stuffed us. We had enough chances to win it tonight but just couldn't compose ourselves. Hock knocking on over the line, Roberts going over the dead ball line and of course the obstruction from Robinson just to name 3.

Yes Bentham let Huddersfield play their game of spoiling tactics but we definitely scored the more attractive tries. We actually had scored more tries than them even when they was winning by 2 until the last 10 minutes, then we let another 2 soft tries in from kicks at the end.

Please send me some of what you are on. We don't have it over here.

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:55 pm  

endoman wrote:

Please send me some of what you are on. We don't have it over here.

Explain which bit of my post is wrong then? I'm not making up what happened.

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:57 pm  

wiganrlforever wrote:

Who is your Mum? , next coach of Wigan ?

If IL is reading this in his soft top Bedford Rascal van then who knows

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:58 pm  

Woody_woody wrote:

Same tactics worked for Huddersfield though.

It was hardly the weather to be chucking it about in tonight and of the two teams I would say we were the more adventurous.

Correct.
The two Wigan tries came from ball movement.

The Huddersfield tries came dummy half and two kicks.

Huddersfield defensively were very good, and played the rules to the limit. They reminded me very much of the early London Broncos.

The score did not reflect the game, and certainly it was not lack of effort that cost Wigan the game.

Huddersfield came with a very basic game plan and it worked.

: Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:01 am  

Woody_woody wrote:

I actually typed performance and then changed it - my apologies . You're constantly critical of boring rugby so I just thought you were after exciting rugby.

I clearly do grasp the difference beacuse I acknowledge Huddersfield put in a good 'performance' tonight but it wasn't 'exciting rugby' to watch.

Trouble is I also acknowledge Wigan's good performances when they grind out wins but you don't seem to. You're more interested in concentrating on the boring tactics employed then. You appear to have a lack of consistency in your argument.

I do i always credit a good performance, and am happy to do so.

What examples are there of Wigan grinding out a win with a good performance please elaborate and i am happy to repost my views on it.

I am also not looking for "exciting" rugby, i am looking for signs of a quality gameplan, improvement of our flaws and consistency, something that we do not get.

: Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:03 am  

Babyface Finlayson wrote:

The crowds are dropping, the structure of the team is a Pathetic shambles and yet Noble & Cowardly lion Fielden are on top whack, the only mugs are the ones turning up every week.. :(

Nail - head - hit. Fielden is a shadow of his former self, poop himself when Crabtree offered him out tonight. I've always stuck up for Noble but there were less then 5000 fans at the end and even they couldn't be bothered to boo.

We are in serious trouble here. No Captain (O'loughlin please note), no go forward, and no backline flair. I have been watching this club for 35+ years but I can't for the life of me remember such an inept, can't be bothered home performance as tonight, or for that matter the games against Wakefield and Castleford.

Thank God we have 3 years without relegation to sort this out but even then, without tough decsions being made from the top it may be too late.

Spineless. Gutless. Inept.

: Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:05 am  

Mini Rogue wrote:

Explain which bit of my post is wrong then? I'm not making up what happened.

I only have the Radio to go on, but we always need a little more composure, enthusiasm etc. We never get it. Maybe with a different set of officials we may have won, but you play the cards you are dealt. It seems to me that we try to guess the dealer and come off worse more often than not. I'm pi$$ed off we lost to Huddersfield at home. Call me arrogant, old skool, whatever I'm pi$$ed off, I have now spat out the dummy and am off up the wooden stairs.