it may not have been pre-meditated, it may not have been an attempt to main/cripple/kill but it was deliberate, it lacked class, and it was a cowardly act from a player who has form for doing it. Jeff Lima has epitomized the Mike Maguire way and im glad to see the back of it.

Hopefully Wigan will focus on this great fluid attack the apparently have and can let the ankle twisting, knee attacking, penalty milking, cowardly lion impression they have shown in the past couple of years go.

Its barely begun, Wane will only try and continue to build on the great work by Maguire at Wigan.

Wigan have a few problems for next season, poor tacking technique is certainly not on the agenda thats for sure.

wigan are prob the best organised team i have seen for years. everyone knows there place and job and they have been a bloody good side. there is no doubt lima, who i really rate as a go forward prop, does have a questionable 'tackling' technique and i'm not sure how he has escaped lengthy bans.
also with hoffman and coley gone players will be be able to keep there heads on there shoulders again.

but really the fault lies with the spineless RFL. if they clamped down and hammered players, from all teams not just wigan, then deliberate foul play would stop almost overnight

The worlds biggest club that managed the smallest gate off the playoffs (6790), massive club..... no really.

Who are you Mr Dumb or Mr Dumber..........................We've played your lot 6 times this season and I've seen enough of your lot executing tackles to injure. Speaking to some of the parents at St Judes last weekend even they are concerned about the technique and don,t want it creeping into the young amateur game.

Its a pity Lima isn't going back to Oz with Hoffman and McGuire before he cripples someone out of the game, at least Coley has retired before he does any more head damage....................Why are Wigoons so DUMB and DUMBER.

Maybe it's to entertain predictable tit heads like yourself!

I didn't like him purely because he was a smaller, slitty mouthed version of Arsene wenger. Never saw anything wrong with any of his players, was the only man on the planet that saw nothing wrong with Hocks gouging or other incidents. He wasn't even a good coach, the last month has proved that. Without the RFL and referees on his side he relinquinshed the Champions title without so much as a whimper. When public opinion forced the referees to enforce the rules Wigan looked a very average team. Wigan are a one man outfit and when the aussies smash him to pieces this winter they won't even be that.

And can you imagine if he comes badged up as "Man of Steel" against the aussies, you might as well stick a fairground coconut on his head....right now.

That's a lot of bait you've used there. Here fishies, fishies...

Couldn't have put it better myse

lf !

You must be so pi--ed off that you don't have the chance to re-write history this Saturday, lest you have forgotten, Leeds have never beaten Wigan in a final of any description.

This is why you pie wafflers are sooooo despised by all other rugby supporters.

Quote ="Wigg'n"Did both players get up with no complaints and play the ball? I've honestly not even seen the game yet (and don't intend to )'" www.youtube.com/watch?v=78WXX7xo8OQ That's not an attempt to "effect the tackle" to me that's a team effort to end Dixon's walking days!

Quote ="Wigg'n"Did both players get up with no complaints and play the ball? I've honestly not even seen the game yet (and don't intend to )'" www.youtube.com/watch?v=78WXX7xo8OQ That's not an attempt to "effect the tackle" to me that's a team effort to end Dixon's walking days!

Or Toulouse

Yet...

Absolutely agree - Maguire has poisoned SL with a brand of rugby that may well have won some games, but has made an unpleasant and unedifying spectacle; several well respected coaches, countless observers and a group of players can't all be wrong. Good riddance to the sneering, cheating barsteward.

Haha.

How have Wakefield been doing these past couple of years btw? Not taken much notice of them.

What does that have to with anything that I posted, or anything else that's been said in this thread?

If you don't have a suitable or relevant retort to the original point, you do realise that you're not compelled to comment?

Just bored of the sh@t you post on here about Wigan, seemingly constantly.

It's funny because you'd probably give one of your testicles to have Maguire coaching Wakefield.

It's called having an opinion - I have one about how Wigan play the game under Maguire and when it's relevant, I post it.

As for your second point (and I use the term 'point' in it's loosest possible sense) no, categorically and unequivocally not.

If you're bored with reading other people's opinions, may I respectfully suggest that an internet forum may not be the best use of your spare time?

A lot of the criticism of Maguire is way OTT. He brought in an NRL-style defence to Wigan, which has worked wonders for the side. I have no problem with a coach playing to the rules with the intention of winning.

So is winning okay if it means you are likely to maim an opposition player? As Mick Potter said, most clubs would have an ethical opposition to that.

loved his little brochure showing which joints to pinpoint in the tackle.



Road kill achieved i believe Maguire likes it to be called.