According to our plant pot of a coach, we can win it.

Well, two can play that game.

I can have a romantic candlelit supper for two with Susanna Reid.
I can play off scratch at golf
Politicians will tell the truth
Petrol will go back to the price it was at the start of the pandemic.

Fair enough. We got beat by a fitter faster more organised team. But at what point are the refs going to grow a pair of balls and actually start using the 6 again to stop teams who persistently slow the play the ball down. A faster game is a better spectacle and might just draw fans in. Wigan games are just a bore fest at the moment. And since when was getting up with an angry face because you’d just been worked over on the floor a penalty? When I saw Kendall was the ref I knew what we were in for and he didn’t disappoint.

Now you being ridiculous , more chance of us winning the GF

JERRRRR, JERRRRR, NOT SQUAREE

It is knee jerk though? We havent played well since April

You couldn't be further from the truth. I actually enjoy it when we get beat, just so I can watch the cry arsing on here - it provides some good banter and some good laughs, watching grown men get so agitated by something as trivial as sport.

I have this sadistic desire to see Powell stay simply to see how boiled all your p!ss can become...

That's just wierd.

Confessional at the keyboard

Saturday NRL is my rugby highlight these days, not Wire
I can't wait for the football season to start
I will never see Wire win a GF, and I don't think I care

After reading that I think he as more issues than Powell

As bad as we have been we are incredibly still only 2 points (abd a but of a PD swing) off a home semi final to get to OT, and we’ve beaten the best team in the league twice in their back yard. Everyone has been awful in patches this year, ours just seem to last a bit longer.

I’ll go and find some more straws to clutch.

You enjoy it when we get beat..really.. something wrong with you in the head.. having said that you'll be happy most games

It isn't, honest. You lot on here, especially in the couple of hours after a loss, are unintentionally one of the funniest things on the Internet - it'd be a real loss if we ever did become successful, because the quality of laughs on this forum would inevitably sink....

Effort was there again and we did some good things. We get a week off and when we come back we'll have Williams, Nicholson, Ashton,Thewlis and Wrench back. So we're looking stronger after the break and it will freshen up the forwards and help recover from bumps n bruises etc
Bring on Wakefield

Ahhh, the pleasant Mrs Sampson.

No this is very true. We could still have a home defeat in the playoffs to look forward to.

So we have more stories of players wanting out. So my question is do we lose the fore mentioned players or lose the coach, now I’m no fan of player power that’s just wrong but in our current situation what do you do.

Well you've had 5 hilarious weeks then. What a strange way to watch your team (imo), but a delightful way to embrace defeat.

Either that or Stockholm syndrome

I guess people are upset and hurting after a defeat to our bitter rivals, watching a team they have followed for a lifetime. Sport is like that, it arises passions. Maybe we are all not as sophisticated as you and let our base emotions run wild at these times. At least it is honestly expressed and from the heart. I like that - its natural and human.

Anyway each to their own and I suppose it is some comfort to us all that you are enjoying yourself laughing at "us lot".

So much player unrest it seems. Never known anything like it. But them. No player is bigger than the club and if they don't like it they can buy themselves out of their contract and do one.

I wish I was posting everyday about a club I didn’t really give a poop about whilst overlooking the Med. I would then be financially and rationally superior to the ruddy lot of you. Please don’t look in Crowe Ave, I don’t live there.

The arrogance on him thinking he can just stroll back to Wigan is astounding. We were gutted to lose him but have moved on and are developing other forwards.

He should have been patient and had faith that Wigan knew how to develop him.

Making him an 80 minute player week in week out at his age probably wasn’t the way to go hence the injuries he’s had.

He’ll stick around a Wire until the NRL want him I reckon

You’re wasting your time mate. We could lose every game from now till the end of the season and there’s a couple on here who would still defend them. You have to remember this is a very, very average Wigan team and they ran away with it.

Barring Thewlis, Ashton, Wrench, Williams, Walker, Vaughan I would you really be that bothered if any others left?

How do we recruit quality players when we're playing crap and have a well below expectations of a clueless management setup.
Fitzgibbon I reckon will end up at an NRL club next season saves him stating he's homesick when he realises he's coming to a nsw quality team.
It's just rank....

The injuries he's had???

What injuries has he had that are due to overplaying him?

I'm really losing patience in Powell, he was supposed to bring a change of culture, yet the same negatives are still evident that have been there for years, apart from a few years of the Tony Smith era. Making things easy for the opposition with stupid penalties or unforced errors, clueless in attack in the opposition 20m, lack of game management and the inability to turn the screw on a team once ahead.
I still wouldn't feel confident with us 10 points ahead with 15 minutes to go against any team in the league just now.
I can't see next season being any better.