As a Wigan fan sometimes I have to say he makes me cringe. He's obviously got a good rugby brain and the players are prepared to run their blood to water for him, the number of players who have returned to the club show that he manages them well. I don't think he's the most academically gifted shall we say, his biggest problem is he often talks from the heart instead of the head and says things that I sure others are thinking but smart enough not to say.

One thing a lot of fans are guilty of is believing media reports to be the absolute truth, reporters ask leading questions and attempt to create a story which gets people talking and subsequently makes money for their publication and words are often selectively quoted and presented in a way where they can be taken out of context. Wane should be smarter and not get duped into giving the answer the reporter wants but also a lot of fans need to be smarter and understand how the media works.

McDermott's post match interview is good viewing

"I'm not speaking as a coach, I'm speaking as a bloke who doesn't want to see those tackles, if Shaun Wane is genuinely saying don't speak about this because we want to get away with it and he wants to continue getting away with it then I'm coming back saying you shouldn't be using those types of techniques"

"I think it's poor form for him to put his players eligibility first before the game and players safety."

"What we're talking about now is whether you can cynically break his knee when he's not watching when someone else has held him up like two bullies holding him up against a wall..... I think it's a pile of cr@p and I think Shaun Wane trying to defend his player is very poor form"

Spot on!

McDermott's always had 1000x times more class than the Great Ape.

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It's a good tirade from mcdermott, talks sense. He's right, Wane don't give a sh*t about the potential danger of the tackle, just doesn't want his player banned.

What, Shaun "win at all cost's" Wane, you must be mistaken

Wonder if the panel will find anything wrong with Ablett's hand to eye episode last night?

He looks like he's just broken wind

Taken seconds after Flower threw that 2nd punch no doubt.

Along with the quote "thats my boy"

followed an hour and a bit later with 'there goes the title'

Lynch him!!!

Without having a Wigan witch hunt (BUT) haha , surely the wrecking ball will recieve the same length of ban Green was given from hull Kr ?

The Wigan Mafia Appeals Committee will have an enormous task on Tuesday trying to prove innocence of Tomkins, Isa, Sutton and FPN.

There should be an aggravating factor as he also pulled his hair, which started the whole thing off. I do think they should leave it until after next weekend though !!!

KR fans are the only supporters outside Wigan that would want that.
The rivalry between the two Hull clubs is always enjoyable.

Taking your rivalry to one side, you have to agree that Wigan play a particularly grubby brand of RL.
I used to admire them but, Wane seems to have changed the whole ethos of the club.
At some point the club and the fans will demand a change.

TBF it was Micheal Maguire that brought the grubby brand of RL you mention, but they also played some entertaining stuff on the back of it. Now under Wane they are a dull and unpleasant team to watch on the TV.

Don't watch then. Stick with your own sides scintillating, breathtaking rugby, especially if you like dozing off during a game.

RL is a contact sport and players get hurt during every game.

However, it's better to be dozing off during a game, than waiting for one of "your" players to deliberately try and injure an opponent, sanctioned by the head coach.
Maybe you get off on that stuff but, it's not sport.

When fan's come on here defending some of the antics of certain players, it's just embarrassing and to be "heppy" with it, is to condone it so, i'll just go ant take a nap.

Yeah we were scintillating that home game against wanes goons

Not sure Wakefield are in any position out of all of the SL teams to complain of being "grubby" when they seem to have a player banned every week, certainly recently. I suppose that's the beauty of having a mindset that the governing body hates your team - you get banned because of them and not your teams play. If I'm wrong in this assessment I apologise.

I genuinely believe Wakefield would be pushing for an even higher position than they are had they not had the discipline issues. Prior to what another comment said I think they're playing very good rugby and consistently so well done to them for that.

Discipline recently has been awful for Wigan the last month or so and they've nobody to blame but themselves. It's hard enough to compete against the top sides put you're making that even harder for stupid reasons. Touching the ref. Fighting. There's no excuse.