Quote ="BackrowSaint"There's a few things that I feel we must do well in order to win, slip on any of them and we will lose IMO:
1. Shut down O'Loughlin. Smash him hard and smash him early, if he gets his tail up, Wigan will win.
2. Kick early and chase hard, turn around their back 3. You can not give Bowen, Burgess and Charnley too much space in returning the ball. Allowing them to catch it on the fly will only end badly.
3. Do not let Blake Green show and go. He'll ghost through the line in the Second Row/Centre channel as he has done so many times before if we give him space.
4. Be AGGRESIVE. If we lose the collision in the middle it's game over. This also ties in with ensuring good line speed throughout the game.
5. Play error free rugby. If we turn the ball over in our own half like we did against Warrington at LP, they'll put a cricket score on us.
The final point which would help us massively but isn't a necessity to win:
6. Rile McIllorum. Get our forwards to rub their hands on his face, talk to him in the tackles and wind him up. Get him to lash out but don't retaliate, take a punch for the team and Wigan are a man down.'"
Nathan Brown was really good at Huddersfield in sucking our forwards into an 'I'm bigger than you' playground fight. It knocked us off our game and gave them cheap field position and possession.
You guys did the same thing at Langtree Park last season when we gave penalty after penalty away and eventually had Green sin binned which won you the game. It even worked quite well at The DW this year in some ways.
I expect he will be trying to get Masoe and LMS to do the same thing this time around especially with the likes of Micky Mac and Pettybourne.
