Thought the team put it in today, with the key men to come to back for the play offs, more than happy.

No lack of effort.

I thought some key personnel were poor by their standards. Hodgson in particular, I thought Westwood was poor, Bridge as usual when you play him halfback anonymous.

We'll lick our wounds and come back.

I think there'll be a different side we see for the next couple of games, had a look of the walking wounded a little to me. Be nice to use these Wakey & Bradford games to rotate.

Considering we had Harrison, Morley and Briers out, plus losing Solomona just after half time we actually matched Wigan very well.

The difference in the game was just silly errors, Hodgson various dropped balls, Blythe turning and looking at the ref before Charnley went full length etc...

I think if we have a full strength team against Wigan, and a better ref around the ruck (how long is Mossop allowed to hold down after not dominating a tackle?) then we definately have the beating of this Wigan team.

We saw against Hudds earlier this season that Bridge isn't a good half back against the top teams, thought Joel Monaghan had a poor game as did Westwood.

Know what your saying about players having a bad game, but the effort was there, just a bad day at the office for some.

Boys put it in today, best team won though.

Proud of the comeback and the fight we showed in the first 10 of the second half.

But just not good enough.

Reminded me dare a say it of the Cullen days.

Agree, but theres a big light at the end of the tunnel imo.

I know where you're coming from.

To be honest I'm not proud of them. Conceding so many points at home defending the cup, the players need to take a long hard look at themselves - that was a battering, simple as.

Wire were desperately below par with key players missing, however I don't think Wigan can play any better than they did today.

Have I got this right - you are [umore than happy[/u at being knocked out of the cup at home conceding 44 points?


It was a gash performance and we all know it. Not taking anything away from Wigan.

there was a clear lack of effort from my point of view. from the 20th to 50th minute they looked like they were interested, the rest, well they looked like they would rather be anywhere else.

during that period, lima was off, we struggled with him today, and mickey mac was on, who's gash,

dont know what your on about pal..we were beaten by the the better team simple as that but we were far from gash...just cos we did`nt win,,you sound like a spoilt little bratt who does`nt get his sweeties from mummy cos you were a bad boy at school..deal with the fact we lost,you never know we might be even worse at ot but may end up winners..always look on the bright side of life

You said you were "more than happy". I countered your contentedness. The rest of your diatribe I duly ignore.

leave the drink alone or dont be so bitter..best team won in a great game..deal with it

I'm proud of the effort that got us back into the game during that 15 - 20 min spell but apart from that its something i'd quickly want to forget, poor defence, unforced errors and some shocking individual performances, fans know the players so it aint worth going into names .... A lot of it reminded me of days gone by under Paul Cullen especially the final scoreline.

I acknowledge the best team won and can deal with it, just curious why you are "more than happy?" Me, I'm gutted.

Put plain and simply, we were just not good enough.

A certain 2nd rower missed an easy tackle in the first half leading to a try and spunked the ball in a promising position on the 1st in the second half when we were on a roll. Having said that I wish Anderson all the best in France. He wasn't the reason we lost, just part of it.

where have i stated more than happy as you put it ..get your facts right...appreciate your ed off at losing so am i but hold your hands up at being beaten by the better side,again deal with it

I'm always proud to be a wire but tonight we had 40 minutes in which we were woeful, first 20 and last 20

Anderson is what he is, isn't he. I think I totally know where you're at with him. He stood out like a sore thumb for me yesterday. When you want a bully, he's great. When you're looking in the first twenty (not yesterday) to rough-house a team, no probs. But, when like yesterday you're chasing a game you need a bit of class & guile, and whilst he may be missing a little bit of condition but Solomona showed exactly what that is, with just little touches. He gets injured, you're back to Louis and whilst as a straight line runner he's okay, you've last that class, you've lost a pair of hands and he just can't do it, when he does it goes wrong.

He'll be good for Catalans, tehy'll add a bully. Us, and how we play, we want a bit of class out wide, we want a centre playing in the backrow really (not really, but skill wise) and I think Waterhouse fits the bill.

I said in the week that the more error prone side would be punished and we were the ones.

I was proud of the comeback as it was nice to see we didn't chuck the towel in and if Hodgson had brought his usual game, we may well have been 24-22 up rather than 20-22. A few of their try's came off the back of unforced errors - the hodgson KO (or not), the Blythe not playing to the whistle Charnley break, and lastly the O'loughlin try at the end. They added 18 points to the score which I am not sure reflects quite the effort we put in, but that's today's Wigan, under their current coach they take nearly all their chances regardless of how the come about.

Wigan deserved it, and I'm gutted, but I'm also looking forward to a response for the rest of the year.

to go 24 points behind and pull it back within 2, to me shows the spirit within the side. Wigan were at full strength, our Captain was out along with Harrison, 2 big forwards that make a lot of impact on the pitch. Also Briers who would have kicked them round the pitch. Take them 3 out of our side, we will struggle against the top teams