I’d always thought Wigan did the right thing letting Micky go and promoting Powell whose was younger. Micky looked like he was going to regress.



Fast forward 6 years and he’s still the best.



If he’d stayed he’d been in his 17th season at Wigan

I think finishing in the top 2 is essential for Wigan to have a slim chance. Can't for the life of me see our forward pack being able to match St Helens or Catalans with a hostile crowd behind them.

Wanes teams had bad defeats too . We will be there when it matters

The way Wire were playing before last weekend, they wouldn’t have got close to Wakey last week (not that it makes it better mind).



Leigh are having a better season than us but they’re not a better team, not by a long way. Ups and downs in the weekly rounds don’t count for a fat lot.

He’s had a superb career. I think the club did right by him and he apparently loves it over there. I doubt many thought he’d be living in the south of France and fluent in the language when he was getting in bother as a young lad.

Obviously gutted coming out of the ground last night especially when we nearly won it in the dying seconds but all things considered I'm not overly concerned. That was like a play off game last night but put Batchelor, Sironen and Makinson back in that side and we will be fine.



Losing Roby and Percival during the game and the impact on the interchanges was just a step too far against a big physical Catalan side.



We still look very clunky in attack and devoid of ideas at times, relying on Lomax or Welsby producing some magic and the fact that we have already lost the same amount of games this season as all of last season isn't great. The quality of SL is struggling though when we are still where we are in the league despite this.



On the plus side Dodd looks to be coming back to form, certainly taking the line on more and looks like his confidence is coming back and I thought Delaney was outstanding against such a huge experienced pack. I've spoken about him for a while and I think at 19 he has great potential to be a superb forward. Needs to fill out considerably but his engine and the way he carries gives him a great future.



Leigh next week will be full of energy and are the form team in the comp but in a knockout game played at a high intensity we may hopefully still have too much for them. A lot depends on if the 3 I mentioned above are all back as worryingly Wellens doesn't sound 100% that it will happen.



The 2 extra days rest certainly help as Leigh play on Sunday.

This isn’t Wanes team though…



For years this team have struggled to win the majority of big games that matter.

Last season we were a bit like Meatloaf so not too shabby.



So far this season we've played two games that actually matter and won both.

Couldn't agree more about our attack we looked clueless again nothing but one man rugby and drop off passes

We’ve played two must win games and won them and I would say we’ve had two other games that carried huge hype (Wire away and Good Friday) and we won those as well.



It gives me great hope for the rest of the season but I would like to see a bit of momentum being built in the next few weeks.

I commented last night that Lomax was completely anonymous, and not for the first time this season. Is he carrying an injury or just not getting on with Wellens' style of play?

Massive blow loosing Passi and Walmsley. Hopefully speedy recovery to both. Never nice seeing these sorts of injuries on players