The same HKR that beat Warrington?

Tomkins showed his Man of Steel credentials again. Did he even get tackled over the 80 minutes?

Who is this Sam tomkins he has never played against Warrington has he? Lol

In 3 seasons i cant ever remember tomkins having a good game against warrington in the league.

to be fair he has been on the losing side in every game.

He is great against the lesser teams though...

Again wigan have shown that they simply dont like it up 'em. leeds did it in the cup and warrington did it today, smash them about, deny them space, close down tomklns. do this for the first five minutes and they all lose their heads, descend into constant arm flapping and (audible) swearing/screaming at the ref, crying at each other (finch is the master) and aiming for the head every chance they get.
it was embarrasing to watch that customary losing of the plot last night, like it was when leeds got stuck into them in the cup. They may be a pro team, but they are a long way from acting like a pro team when the going gets tough.
Wigan are like the school bully, its all fine when they have it easy beating on smaller kids, but when a bigger kid comes along and lamps them they fill their pants.

Wane said there was no way his team would get bullied by warrington again, yet they trotted off with their ties around their heads and no dinner money.

'road kill achieved'

Same old same old, we lose to the Wolfs every year. We'll just have to take the dinner plate as consolation for these 2 lost points.

See yer in the playoffs

You can have it. Finishing top means nothing in the age of the playoffs. Leeds have proved that.

Wigan won 'when it mattered'

We tried telling you lot that last year but yet you still fingered each other daft at the thought of the history books saying you finished top.

The hubcap is an insult in my opinion, get rid of it.

the reason we had an emphasis on finishing top is we have not done it for a long time and need the confidence boost.

i still think we now have that winning mentality and could and i say could do the double

But yet you lot insisted on singing "We're gonna win the league" yesterday afternoon.

You really need to make your mind up, it was a mickey mouse trophy when we won but when you won it in 2010 your fans didn't think it was a mickey mouse trophy back then.

Tomkins the new Pryce- goes missing in the big games

I genuinely forgot he was on the pitch!

Reverted to his bad old ways of gobbing of at the ref brought on by frustration.

What was Tomkins supposed to do when Wigans forwards were giving the ball away each time they had it?

Another poster with a selective memory.
Four examples off the top of my head that I can think of:
1.Played superbly and scored in the 2010 Grand Final.
2. Played well and set up a try in the 2011 Challenge Cup final, which is overlooked because of his action towards the Leeds fans.
3. CC Quarter Final against Warrington last season, was superb throughout apart from one lost ball which resulted in Charnley's try. Scored a wonderful try also.
4. 4 Nations game at Wembley against the Aussies, he played well there also.

Yesterday he didn't get a look in as Wigan hardly had the ball in Wire's half because our forwards were outplayed by Warrington's pack. And when we did get in their half, we'd have someone knocking on or someone making a mistake.

It was just the same on Monday night, James Roby, many people's choice for MOS, was virtually non-existent because he was playing alongside a less dominant pack.

This. If Tomkins doesn't tear a team apart every game he immediately becomes " a player who can't deliver when it matters", despite having delivered in big games over and again. Any other team would sell half their squads for Tomkins. Just sit back and enjoy their delusions about Tomkin's 'weaknesses'. Will make the GF win all the more enjoyable, when he tears someone a new one.

nah, he's got the opportunity to inject himself into the game, the one occasion he did he got a penalty from ganson for us not being square. He limited his own involvement yesterday, barely did any kick returns, barely got in at dummy half on the first tackle which is a common tactic for him.


The only time you really saw him, was when he was getting himself involved needlessly, gobbing off following the hill mossop handbags and when wood got penalised for pushing farrell off him.

Agree with you about O'loughlin. If Mr Childs was refereeing he would have been in to double figures penatlies conceded.

For all those fans who missed Mr S Tompkins esquire during yesterdays game, he was the one doing the Tommy Makinson impression, and the one who...........errrrrr......actually i think that was the only stand-out thing he did.

I enjoyed the bit where Mr Ganson told Morley and McIllorum(?) to "...stop kissing you two, and get up!" That's why I love our game, when the referee sees a bit of handbagging, he just rips the urine out of the offenders who get up looking sheepish, and play continues.

As for the game itself, Wire did what they did to us, and just choked Wigan at every opportunity. 75% possession at one point, and Wigan completing at 50%? Never gonna win a game like that. The only worrying thing from Warrington's perspective is that they didn't score more points.

There were 2 tries disallowed that looked fine, Joel's where Ganson had blew the whistle and Waterhouse where it got called forward. With Hodgson kicking those would probably have turned into 12 points.

I'll take 30 points against the best defence in the league though.

Im a Wire fan, but I freely admit Sam is a genius. I love to see him play against everyone except us.