Nah, our players start $hit but they stick around to see how it pans out

You sound like Stevo with the "he would've scored", there was plenty of ground left to cover and defenders on his shoulder.

Maybe the "rugby gods" have spoken re Blake green

Ok maybe exhibition mode is the wrong term, but my point is leeds were clearly not going into that game with the expectation of the intensity that wigan would bring to it which they did.like I said, its all about approach to these things and I think we went in with the belief it would be easier than it was.not disrespecting leeds players at all by thinking this,it was as day to see.Wane was clever and used this to his advantage by ensuring his team were in our faces from minute 1 and we just couldnt adapt to it so fair play to them.

im sure mac wont make the same mistake again,certainly not against a wane led wigan, and next time we play them we will be bang at it.

McIlorum is an undoubted thug and cheap shot merchant.....but he is also a bloody good proper old fashioned forward that I wish Leeds had up the middle. Best hooker in competition for me (and that includes Roby)

As I said on our (wigan) forum, hes a ryan bailey but with balls

You know what I mean...he certainly had more chance of scoring than McGuire did.

BJB when in his stride is pretty bloody fast: it is his greatest (only?

) strength.

My observations (for what they're worth).

Wigan definitely more up for the game
Wigan needed the win more than Leeds
Wigan lucky the ref allowed their bending of the rules
Leeds had injured players absent too (take note Sky)
Never seen what BJB brings to the table - hopefully won't see him in a Leeds shirt again
But for a 1/24th of a second knock on Leeds would have won.
Wane is a heart attack in the waiting

Thank goodness its only 2 or 3 leeds fans who are total numbnuts on this thread.

Well done Leeds for keeping the score as close as it was

Your team where poorly prepared to play against an understrenght wigan team! Thats all down to the coach

Aye, constantly.

Too much of a coward for our team.

Our lads can also talk the talk like Bailey but unlike him they walk the walk.

Ooooooo nice edit!!!

And if we'd have gone all guns blazing and put on a great performance people would be complaining that we're pushing too hard in the regular season and not saving ourselves for the playoffs.

Swings and roundabouts,

I dont know.we were on a bit of a hiding to nothing with all the injury talk from your side etc.I would put it down to your coach using it to showcase his own skills at getting every last drop from his men in this kind of situation, than any shortcoming from Mcdermott tonight.

probably true



think we got mugged a bit today but nothing lost in the long run and I would have been more than happy if you told me at the start of the year we would have lost only 2 games at this point.

Saints, Wigan, Cas, Wigan. 4 tough games. I'll take 3 from 4. Loving Leeds style at the mo

Wigans injuries rendered any leeds win irrelevant. And I don't mean in terms of points and positions on the table I mean in terms of winning the title and how the league [ireally[/i works.

Burrow
Watkins
Aiton
JJB

And technically not injured but we dropped Briscoe for peace keeping reasons that won't happen later in the season,

yes but you got cas when they only had a 4 day turnaround again.

You mean like McGuires elbow to Bowens throat ? I suspect he might get pinged by the RFL for that. Even Jon Wells mentioned that .

Yeah exactly, we had to play a proper team last week. Wigan only had to play Hull.

Blimey. When did this turn into a netball forum?

Quite a dirty, niggly game wasn't it? Not like t'old days, but pretty good by modern standards.

Better team won.

Some massive over reactions here. To blame BJB & McDermott for the loss is typical of certain posters. Wigan tackled like demons and Leeds had too many players who underperformed on the night. eg: Bailey, Sutcliffe, Ward were ineffective and even JP and Kylie were kept quiet particularly in the first half with some ferocious tackling. BJB too did nothing but in fairness hardly got a pass and certainly had no opportunities. We missed Watkins and Burrow big time as it needed their flair to break a very quick and well organised Wigan defence who on the night deserved to win.

We were roughed up and some of our players got drawn into playing into Wigan's hands. Some offside and holding down slowed our PTB. When we had the extra man we failed to create sufficient overlaps with the extra space.

In the second half Kylie took the b all up better and started to put us on the front foot and Sinfield at acting half was able to give us some direction and momentum. We almost won it with Moon and Ablett the pick of the bunch and most of the other looking a bit jaded. Very difficult to stay fresh every week in such a tough month of fixtures. It was always likely that we will go off the boil at some stage but we should not be too critical on this occassion.

Mentioning McIlorum in the same breath as Roby is an utter disgrace.

In a match with a competent referee, McIlroum would have spent the best part of an hour watching from the stands.

Roby is a class above him, and then some.