We need to rediscover it quickly. We were almost embarrassed today. We should and could have finished that Bulls side off with a big score. They were a man down and were massively short of ideas.

It was the same against Quins. Wigan think they've done enough mid-way and switch off.

We won't even get to Wembley or Old Trafford, let alone win there, if we continue in this casual vein. Some bunch of jokers will knock us out before we even meet any of the big guns.

It happened a few times last season tbf.

We've still got enough quality in the side to win the GF

When we go down the middle all the time we get no were or shuld i say we dont look a threat , We always score out wide as last year all our trys came from out wide so why are we doing 5 drives down middle latley .

I don't think you've lost your killer instinct as your not doing bad in super league or the challenge cup.

Maybe looking a little tired IMO.

We was comfortable with being 4 points infront not ideal by any means but the lads wasn't worried one bit and neither was i

We had a stage like this last season but we will come good next week dont worry

It was just one of those games. Bradford played the best they have all season. And we were well below par, probably due to thinking it was going to be a walkover. Previous years we'd have lost that game, but not anymore, not under the current regime. Yes we could have done better but sometimes that's how games pan out.

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totally agree with you. I posted the same thing after the quins games and got greif. We were totally woeful today and again let a team back in who had no right to be let back in. we blew try opportunites yet again, the same peple yet again responsible, the tomkin brothers. we must learn from our mistakes as it will cost us soon. in Wigan's defence Ganson's complete not control of the bradford offside and goal line defence was unbelievble.

I certainly think it's the case that a number of unforced errors by players (who need to examine their performances closely) made things a lot easier for Bradford. I know it was windy, but it wasn't wet.

Too many knock-ons, some very sloppy work around the play-the-ball, too many passes going to ground and way too many missed tackles - all of that combined to reduce our territorial advantage quite dramatically. When we were playing through the sixes, even just driving it up via the pack, you could plainly see how woeful Bradford actually were. They were camped near their own line and the only tactic they had was to keep hoofing it into the wind on the third tackle. Yet still the scores were almost embarrassingly close by the end, because every so often - as regular as clockwork - some Wigan berk would turn over possession through lack of concentration. A couple of the Bradford chip-throughs near our line weren't even chased down.

I'm not sure I can accept that Wigan were tired. Their last two matches have been cakewalks. I think there's a danger that some real complacency is creeping in. Maguire is supposed to be a master of psychology. Time for him to show it.

I just think it was a scrappy game littered with mistakes from both teams. After the sending off I think we assumed it'd be much easier than it turned out to be, Finch alluded to that in his post match interview. I'd say it was a poor performance, but that we didn't really look like losing (although I'll admit to be slightly worried with about 15 to go) and in the end we won. A classic it was not, but in the cup a win is a win, I'll take that every time!

Very poor performance I thought.

MM will be going ape at the lack of cohesion in midfield and Goulding must not play left side again IMO.

Think the conditions played a big part in today's game. It was really windy. The tries we score out wide come from long cut-out passes and faceballs to dummy runners but we saw passes like that go to ground on more than one occasion so that aspect of our game had to be more or less abandoned. It was still a pretty sloppy performance and we'll need to be a lot better to beat Hull KR next weekend

That's a valid point re. Goulding. I'm not blaming him per se, but to lose our left wing attack at the last second, which is basically what happened - Carmont and Richards are a wing partnership that much better teams than Bradford have struggled to contain - was bound to have an impact.

That said, I still think a lot of players coughed up far too many errors. They made 12 journeymen (at best) look good.

Why??

he did have a bit of a brain storm coming out of the line but in general was impressed with him.

Are you serious? Those two passes for Pat's tries were as good as any centre will produce.

Silver lining on today's grey cloud of a performance is that hopefully we will go into the Hull KR game sharper than we would had we won today 40-50+

A rubbish and amateurish performance. If professional players can't cope with the wind when a man up for the majority of the game they're in the wrong job. For most of the 2nd half it looked like we were the team with 12 men. We made a very, very poor team look good.

Awful.

We were very lethargic today.

We did this last year at times. Just a poor performance. I'm not overly worried.

Here's hoping.

Madge and Waney won't have been impressed, so the lads are in for a tougher week than they might have been expecting.

Empty ground apart from Wigan fans, very windy, Pat's first touchdown summed it up, when he lost the ball, anyway in the fridge on Monday.

No strike.
Which makes sense if you look at the team. Two second rowers playing in the centres after Pat went to fb.
Without Sam, Carmont and Pat out of position we have no outside strike.
Goulding is defensively suspect, and hit and miss going forward, Joel is still learning the ropes which gives us little strike. Charnley was isolated on the wing and Pat was at fb.

We had the direction with Finch and Deacon but no outside pace.

And I know I'll get slaughtered for this (which I don't care about) but McM isn't a good 9. So lacking in creativity and movement. Never gets the team moving off the front foot. Defensively great, but what good is that when you're not doing a good job as an attacking 9. Once again I feel we miss Piggy.

Today was a reflect of the future without Carmont. Another centre is a must.

really really frustrating game i thought . way too many errors and stupid penalties

Poor performance again today, not got the 6 7+9 right was badly missing Carmont + Gleeson!! we need a top class centre urgently Mr Lenegan

Our preformance today did leave me slightly concerned, Saints, Wire, Leeds, Hudds and possibly a few otheres could have had us today playing like that

Fair credit to Bradford though - best Ive seen them play this year