From the fixtures below, what do people think will happen.

I know everyone is generally down at the moment, but rather than just go "We'll lose them all" have a think about our inconsistent form this year. We may spring a surprise or 2.



Fri 03 Jul - Harlequins RL - Home
Fri 10 Jul - Catalans Dragons - Home
Sun 19 Jul - Bradford Bulls - Away
Fri 24 Jul - Leeds Rhinos - Home
Fri 31 Jul - St Helens - Away
Sat 08 Aug - Warrington Wolves - Away (Challenge Cup)
Fri 14 Aug - Warrington Wolves - Home
Sun 23 Aug - Castleford Tigers - Away
Fri 04 Sep - Hull FC - Home
Sun 13 Sep - Huddersfield Giants - Away

Personally I can see us beating Catalan, Castleford and Hull. Bradford is a possibility although it depends which Bradford turn up and Huddersfield is a possibilty depending on what they'll need to do and what team they'll field depending on their league position at the time.

I don't think we'll beat Warrington in the CC.

I can't see us losing too many. IMO we will lose against HKR, one of the Leeds/Saints games and one of the last 3. Will finish 5th or 6th. Nothing much has changed since the Celtic defeat.

We'll do well to beat 'Quins. They looked pretty useful against KR, they are a proper team, with proper team spirit.

This is Wigan so god knows what will happen.........well to be fair we do, we'll win some you'd think we'd lose, we'll lose some you'd expect us to win and we'll continue to frustrate!

Can't wait

It's only really the Cats and Hull games that I'm anywhere near confident of winning.

I don't doubt that we'll go a Noble esque decent-ish run at the end of the year and finish in the 8. We may even get to the Cup Final where anything can happen but even if we win the trophy AND get to Old Trafford now I don't think a new deal for Noble can be justified given Wigan's appalling inconsistency.

Beat Stains & Leeds.

Lose the rest.

If Noble is in charge for all those games i would go with-

Beat Harlequins and Catalans

Lose against Bradford, Leeds & Saints

Win one of the Warrington games (i also feel we will lose the semi)

Lose away to Cas

Beat Hull at home

Lose away to Hudds

Thats pretty much how we have been going over the last two years and i see no reason for change. However if Noble and his chums are dispatched i would expect a few of those loses to change to wins and would feel a lot more confident about the semi final.

The only games I'm bothered about are Stains away and the Cup Semi, so we will probably get tw*tted in both of them, win the rest and scrape into the playoffs.

New contract for Nobby

s an outsider looking in the ones i think you will win are in bold. Should be plenty enough to get u in to the play offs.

Agreed

May win some, may lose some - quite frankly not too bothered either way,
which for someone who has been following the club since the early 70s is a sad state of affairs.

Until there is a major shake up at the club I am ceasing to really care any more - I have other things that are more important and interesting.


As for predicting wins and loses - roll a dice becasue the inconsistency of this team means anything could happen.

The ones in Bold are the ones i think we will win the team will turn up for Leeds Saints and Bradford and for Warrington in the CC and think we will beat Quins easily as we will have had 2 weeks to think about our loss. We had and have had a problem for years as a club in not turning up for the clubs we are expected to win and its not just under Noble this has happened. We Did not play well on Saturday but Celtic turned up and were up for it if we had kept our composure in the last 15 we could have won but we lost our heads through frustration. There not to bad a team Celtic on there day kept Saints down to 4 points at home this season.

I can see you winning 7/8 out of 10.

This team is not as bad as a lot of you make out, but Noble needs to settle on his preferred team rather than mixing and matching hookers and halves in a struggling side.

I agree again.

I must be in holiday mode.

If results go against us this weekend, we could be in 11th place (4th from bottom) come Sunday night. But the points difference still suggests we should finish around 6th or 7th and then the real comp starts!
Maybe Celtic gave us the kick up the we needed! - Lets hope so! - A good team and a good coach would look at it that way!

Fri 03 Jul - Harlequins RL - Home WIN
Fri 10 Jul - Catalans Dragons - Home LOSE
Sun 19 Jul - Bradford Bulls - Away LOSE
Fri 24 Jul - Leeds Rhinos - Home LOSE
Fri 31 Jul - St Helens - Away LOSE
Sat 08 Aug - Warrington Wolves - Away (Challenge Cup) LOSE
Fri 14 Aug - Warrington Wolves - Home LOSE
Sun 23 Aug - Castleford Tigers - Away LOSE
Fri 04 Sep - Hull FC - Home WIN
Sun 13 Sep - Huddersfield Giants - Away LOSE

No chance

i agree, i don't think we'll beat hull either! haha.

Fri 03 Jul - Harlequins RL - Home WIN (they owe you lot after Saturday)
Fri 10 Jul - Catalans Dragons - Home WIN
Sun 19 Jul - Bradford Bulls - Away WIN (LOSE - if Bradford find some momentum)
Fri 24 Jul - Leeds Rhinos - Home WIN
Fri 31 Jul - St Helens - Away LOSE (We owe you one after McMagic)
Sat 08 Aug - Warrington Wolves - Away (Challenge Cup) No Idea
Fri 14 Aug - Warrington Wolves - Home - WIN
Sun 23 Aug - Castleford Tigers - Away WIN
Fri 04 Sep - Hull FC - Home WIN (depending on a potential Cup hangover)
Sun 13 Sep - Huddersfield Giants - Away LOSE (Depends a lot on if league places are decided)

Every expectance that Wigan will finish 6th or 7th this year and we all know what you seem to do in th play offs! you just need to find some consistency - a couple of times this season have shown you can compete with everyone - its just doing it every week

Just noticed I've missed our next fixture off

Sun 28 Jun - Hull Kingston Rovers - Away

Now I'd have that down as a loss for us but HKR have never won a game in June whilst in the Super League.

Unfortunately I agree. Those two sides are the only ones who are not playing well consistently. Les Cats seem poorer than last year and have to travel. Hull are just not playing well.

Quins are almost a blueprint for the kind of sides we struggle to beat so I expect us to lose that game. All the other sides are looking as good as ever or are improving.

So I can see no reason to disagree with your assessment. I wish I could!

Dave

Agree.

Can't make my mind up about the Quins game but I'd say we've got a good chance of winning the other four below.

Fri 03 Jul - Harlequins RL - Home

Fri 10 Jul - Catalans Dragons - Home
Sun 19 Jul - Bradford Bulls - Away
Fri 14 Aug - Warrington Wolves - Home
Fri 04 Sep - Hull FC - Home

Oh come on? A Challenge Cup win and a grand final and you wouldn't renew a contract? That's just personal.

I think we'll beat Leeds at home which is one of the games most people would think we'd lose.

The players will be up for the game infront of what should be a decent crowd and even Nobby seems able to get the team up for games against his old foes Leeds.