I guess some people will say, "Score more points than they do."
However, I hope we do the other obvious things:
Don't give Briers any interception chances. Dummy near him or kick the ball behind him as he stands in our line.
Stop the off-loads by either clamping their players or intercepting these passes.
The West stand in which I sit needs to be more vociferous. We need to influence the ref and touchjudges especially by shouting "Forward" (as Saints and Wire fans do). 20,000 Wiganers should be heard. It's so disappointing that we rely on the South Stand so much. People sitting there cannot see the forward passes that easily.
Probably most important of all, our forwards have to keep up the good work and smash them.

QUOTE :''The West stand in which I sit needs to be more vociferous ''

You leading the shouts then ?



I shall be even more gobby than usual this evening, as I am usually sober at matches

we need to play down the wing when we are close to the line, especially on Rileys side. They were shocking with that against Cas last week, Pat & Goulding would have a field day.

we need to pressure them and not let them blow us away, they dont like pressure and dont handle it well.

Bomb it to Mathers. He will do the rest

Target Riley, target Mathers.

Don't let Myler draw a penalty with his tackled a little late rag-doll theatrics.

Tonight i think if we defend with the same defensive intensity as we did at Catalans before we went down to 12 men, we will win comfortably IMO.

We need to stop the offloads, they rely heavily on offloads. Clamp up the ball and control the ruck speed, then a large part of their attacking ideas go out the window as they play exciting, off-the-cuff rugby. Also we need to take advantage when each of Carvell, Morley and Monaghan go off the field, sometimes they look average without Monaghan especially.

I think our forwards need to front up, with Stu leading the way and have a good kicking game and keep them in their own half, i can think of only Riley who i would back to score from 70-80 metres out.

I have a good feeling about tonight and i think it might just be our best performance of the season. Come on Wigan

#1 Stop the wire offloading. We'll have our work cut out as it is containing the wire frontrow without having to do even more work.

#2 Control that ruck. If we can minimize the quick play the balls that wire get it'll go along way to us winning.

i would back atkins and possibly myler could do it aswell

Just get rough first 10 try and take morley out the game simple

I know people dont like these old school tactics but they work

And there's me thinking you were always palatic. What's with the slurred speech, dilated pupils and unsteady gait then?


I'll do my best with the shouting but I've tried it in the past and got some strange looks.
Now get back to work.

Match their forwards for the first 20
Dont try and win the game up the middle

Be creative with our kicking game

Hypnotise Stu Feielden and tell him that all the Wire players are in fact Jason Smith.

KAPPPOWWWW!!

Give 1 forward the responsibility to carry the ball into Briers, over an over.

Even with Amos, pat or sam tomkins after them? I wouldn't.

Joel Tomkins

I know some people don't think much of him, but we must nullify the effect Solomona has on the game when he comes off the bench. If I remember rightly, he ran us ragged the whole time he was on the pitch in the reverse fixture so he needs to be watched.

I'll happily watch him drop the ball just short of the line with seconds left on the clock again!



He did turn the game in their favour when he came on at their place earlier in the season, IIRC. He's a definite threat and I hope we contain him better this time.

1. Stop offloads

2. Shut down Briers, mainly his kicking game

3. Do what we have done well all season

He'd take it all day, unlike you when you play for storm

I'd add Monaghan to that 2nd point too - he controls a game as well as anyone is SL when he's on form.

Add Briers to that list.

Also wind up Paul Potts, he isnt the same player without a cool head.

It possibly could be as simple as that!

Wire like to be off the cuff, we have a more structured game plan, keep that and we should take the game.

With ball in hand we are far far better IMO than we were when we played them earlier in the year. I can't see them being able to handle us if we play like we have done and can cut some errors out. I said to my dad last week against salford that I was glad we were making errors because I felt we were getting them out of the way.

Our defence is also better than when we last played wire and they won't be getting easy scores like they did in that game.