Quote ="Phuzzy"As I've said many times before, caring about a result is totally different to preparing properly for the game in the first place. They clearly cared. They're professional sportsman and any defeat hurts. They also clearly underestimated the Saints side. That's on them. However their reaction isn't an indicator of how they approached the game which was definitely lacking. In truth I'd be happy if they approached our game in the same way. Unfortunately it doesn't take a genius to work out that they're unlikely to make the same mistake twice.
As NK says, it doesn't detract from Saints achievement in the slightest just as it wouldn't ours if they come into the game undercooked. You can only beat what's in front of you. The team that approaches the match in the best way, wants it more and executes the best will win. That's the same for any and every game. Excuses are for the losers.'"
Well they aren’t playing a warm up game this year so clearly aren’t taking it any more seriously this year, and Wigan get to play this game after they have started their SL season so have a bigger advantage.
See - it’s easy to play things down isn’t it! Wigan fans say this is the real deal cos they lost last year but in the same breath say they didn’t care last year so if they didn’t care last year (having lost previous forays into this game), why would they care now?
Well done for doing the Aussie’s job for them re: perpetuating the excuses though.
