I think it's you who is being shown up as knowing nowt. How many times have you walked away from a match where your team scored lots of tries and said "That was boring wasn't it?"

Last year Wigan were superb in attack. Flowing moves, spreading the play from wing to wing and scoring plenty of tries. That is why Wigan fans keep mentioning scoring lots of points. Because the way we scored them was ENTERTAINING to watch! If they were boring 5 drives and a grubber kick, or stick it up your jumper and let a prop fall over the line we wouldn't keep harping on about the number of tries we scored. Even I'd be bored watching that all the time. But they weren't. They were entertaining for us to watch.

Maybe it's just boring for fans of lesser teams to watch Wigan scoring so many times against them, whilst they can muster nothing in attack. Back in the season that teams were beating us easily every week I was bored. The only thing that kept me going in some matches was singing with all the wigan fans "always look on the brightside" but I bet those opposition fans were entertained and enjoyed the match when they scored so many tries.

And with the defence last season, yes there were wrestling tactics used to control the player hitting the floor, but there were also massive hits, ferocious tackling and dominant sets that didn't let the opposition make more than 20 metres sometimes. Again, watching some of those hits go in was ENTERTAINING. (Seeing a pattern yet?)

The one that annoyed me the most about this moaning last year was Kear, when he said "it was like watching paint dry". In that match we'd scored a few length of the field tries, and our attack was a joy to watch. Yet because he can't coach to any standard that even comes close to what he saw Wigan do, he spits the dummy out and says it was boring. He sounded just like a little child who loses badly at a game saying "I didn't want to play anyway, it's a stupid game!"

Anyway, yes I've had a bad day and that is the end of my rant. I'm going for a brew to calm down

Interesting to see no mention of dubious tackling/chicken wing/wrestling in Potter's post match comments, just that they were well beaten.

There are two completely different issues here that most people on here, and Potter (probably deliberately)seem to be mixing up;

1) Defenders intentionally doing something that may cause serious injury to another player. As far as I know wigan haven't injured anyplayer with a 'chicken wing' in the history of the game. And until Lima was penalised twice ast week have had very few if any pens against them in the past. Other teams have had just as many if not more pens against them - the fact that wigan have now been penalised now makes it 'open season' against them.

Just like last season when it emerged that they were the first team to do something called 'wrestle' - despite the fact that coaches like Millward had been boasting about it years ago as though he was a genius for introducing it........

2) Defenders slowing the ptb down to alow their defence to get set. Which every team does - without exception.

I can't see what agenda Potter had other than a) try and influence the fans to get onto the ref to award pens against wigan b) directly influence the ref to give pens against wigan

Certainly not real concern about player welfare.

He has a point I feel. How long are they going to let it go on for? The RFL must realise by now that Wigan are being coached to break every possible rule in an attempt to take advantage of the weakness of the referees in Super League. Do they wait for someone to lose a limb or potentially even their life before they act?



Again, absolutely spot on. Cooke clearly has me on an RSS feed. But again, like me, he is right. Young Sam is obsessed with cheating and it is totally to the detriment of his performances.



Again, very true. When are the RFL going to do something about it? It's not the blatant thuggery I'm concerned about, the referees and disciplinary committee can at least deal with those infractions to some degree as seen by the obvious bans handed out to the Kray twins. It's the constant attempts to hurt the ball carrier through forcing joints as Cooke mentions. This shows people with a lot of knowledge on the game have made the same observations.

I think you’re getting a little delirious now

S.


Another classic post from 'Oh My god, I'm right / Post Mortem / We are $hite' drama queen again.

Can't wait for the update on Saturday night after another pumping.

I'm here to entertain and educate. Good to see you are keeping up with my work.