Took total control tonight. Best game for Wigan IMHO. Kicks were superb.

Well done all the boys.

Deacon was indeed superb, back to what he was like in his Bulls days.

Happy for him, as a bulls fan.

I agree, his kicking was pure quality.

Sounds like Richards kicking wasn't bad either!

Hard to pick out anyone who did*nt play well for wigan tonight,,,,,very good all round..

Absolutely magnificent tonight. That's what we brought him in for, to start at 7.

It's useless bringing him off the bench to 7 and moving everyone around when the hooker goes off.

exactly what we missed last week! Well done Deaks!

Shows what he can do when he's not stuck with all the responsibility on just his shoulders, like he so often was at Bradford.

Quality, he needs to start next week



In hindsight probably not a good decision to get rid and ship out Orford. Although to be fair Deacon has had his fair share of injuries

He was a very shrewd signing, and him coming into form at the back-end of the playoffs is a good thing. Bradford would kill for him at the moment I reckon.

Start him next week and see what he can do against a good team. Hull were poor tonight so lets not get too carried away.

Credit where its due though his best performance in a Wigan shirt.

I didn't say starting him makes him a world beater, just that if you play him you have to play him from the start.

We can play rugby with or without him we have proven that this year. Be useful to have him around going into the playoffs in case one of the halves / hookers get injured.

Yes but our line defence isn't that good against the top teams, play well away from our line. None of our halves have had their kicking boots on this term, so even if he adds that it will be a massive bonus.

But Hull were awful so lets not get carried away, nice win though anyway

To quote Shaun McRay: "Hull weren't all that bad tonight, they were just outclassed by a far superior Wigan side"

Kicking was spot on, something we have lacked this season when Tommy and O'Loughlin have been kicking. It's been alrigh, but not great like it was tonight.

TBH Hull weren't that bad.. Its just we were great in defence and in attack we were very good..

Its easy to look at the scoreline and think Hull FC were poor, but IMO we could have put 60-70 points on them if they were as poor as some of the sides we've played this year.

Creit were credit is due... Great response from the guys.. well done..

Was a return to his prime years tonight - makes it a very tough decision regarding which way we should go come the playoffs when everyone will hopefully be fit. There's so many options whichever way Maguire goes there will be someone saying he's got it wrong.

Had his best game in a Wigan shirt, and a great performance overall. And to be honest, all the positives he was doing had nothing to do with any mistakes or lack of performance from the opposition. Great shift in both attack and defence. I also though Sam looked better at FB today.

Another good game by Deacs I thought.

Agreed, another good performance from Deacs tonight.

Both last week and this week, Paul Deacon has been a true team player, not an individually great performance but an excellent team performance, well done Deac's

Put some great defensive hits in aswel tonight. Good work Deacs.

i really hope the guy stays fit, i know he aint a world beater an his best days are behind him but he really can bring so much to this team! when on his game he almost takes the team to another level. now im not saying he single handedly does it on his own but when he does his thing he allows the the rest of the team to do their thing with so much freedom but yet the structure is still there.

yes maybe i might be going a bit too far with this and i'm not for one min saying it is down to him because it is a great team effort at the moment but i think his control is a massive bonus to wigan especially when there not on the front foot!

i really do think in the big games he can an will be a big influence for Wigan without being spectacular!

Stands back to be shot down!!! lol