Re: Wigan v Hull FC 23rd Feb : Thu Feb 27, 2020 12:08 pm  

Neil HFC wrote:

you know there is a difference between an "average side" in a league in any given year, and an average side compared to previous iterations of the same team don't you?

So does Radford consider his current side 'good' using said criteria? Further, which incarnation are we comparing this 'average' Wigan side to? Last year's perhaps? Or was he comparing it to teams from a completely different era, say, the late 80s and early 90s by which measure no current side would come out as anything but 'average' by comparison.

Let's be honest here. Radford was being disingenuous at best but, more likely, was trying to put his own inadequacies in a favourable light by calling the team that had just comprehensively outplayed his own and, in all probability, will finish above it 'average'.

Seems to have worked on some supporters too. Just sayin'.

Re: Wigan v Hull FC 23rd Feb : Thu Feb 27, 2020 12:23 pm  

... don't remember LR saying Wigan are "average", where has that come from??

Re: Wigan v Hull FC 23rd Feb : Thu Feb 27, 2020 12:29 pm  

number 6 wrote:

overhyped? look at your own team, struggled to beat 12 men, relying on another sin bin to beat wire, struggled v toronto and got beat by cas....who is average again?

i'll accept we were poor on sunday, but we will improve when players return!

Shall we put this one to bed? We crossed the line 5 times Vs Warrington. They scored one try and never got close to another. We were down to 15 fit players in that match and were seriously disrupted by the decapitation of Powell. Just in case you've forgotten we were winning at the time of the sending off.

Struggled to beat Toronto? We beat them by 22 points! What constitutes a comfortable win in your book? How many wins by more than 22 points are you expecting Hull to get this season? In addition we were down to 12 men for a period in that game and still scored. Or does that only count for any opposition teams (who, incidentally, fail to do the same)?

Lost at Cas, I'll give you although we've also lost 7 from the last 8 on that ground winning 2 titles in the process.

I'll add an extra one to your synopsis as you seem to have somehow missed that one off. I can only assume an oversight. Beat Hull convincingly with a team missing Burgess, Gildart, O'Loughlin, Flower and Powell amongst others (just to even up the missing players excuse a bit).

If that's 'average' I'll bet it's average enough to have a fair crack at the title again this year.

Re: Wigan v Hull FC 23rd Feb : Thu Feb 27, 2020 12:40 pm  

...didn't Powell play?

Re: Wigan v Hull FC 23rd Feb : Thu Feb 27, 2020 1:59 pm  

ccs wrote:

...didn't Powell play?

He did “ccs” and he had a good game, much underrated player. like Danny works his socks off.

Re: Wigan v Hull FC 23rd Feb : Mon Mar 02, 2020 5:09 pm  

ccs wrote:

...didn't Powell play?

He did mate, sorry. I failed to recognise him as his head was still embedded in Chris Hill's forearm.