Had a blinder tonight, put in quite a few decent kicks and was well involved in't gameplay

Agreed.

May be in the minority here but I wasn't impressed.

Agreed he put in some decent kicks but way too early in the set on too many occasions.

God know's why he kicked it into touch when Saints made the little grubber up the wing in our half; pick the ball up and run with it!

Doesn't look confident at all with ball in hand, awful error just in front of our line and I'm sure a couple of knock-ons/dropped balls the ref let go were forward.

Perhaps I'm being overly critical and I'll probably watch the game again to get a better view but right now I'm not impressed.

Still Leigh bound?

I agree with PA, he made quite a lot of mistakes, in particular the unforced knockon only metres from our own line.

If Pat isn't fit for Catalans, I'd rather put Tomkins at FB and bring in Smith than play Phelps again.

Thought he actually did OK TBH. Sure he was a little rusty and made a couple of mistakes, but then, who never makes mistakes? IIRC he didn't come as a full back, and of course, if Pat is available he won't get to play, however as a utility centre/winger, he'll be needed if Ainscough or Roberts gets injured.

I agree in principle however (although now isn't the time for this debate) we can't afford to waste a quota spot on a utility back.

Looks at what people say and wonders if they have every played the game they watch and see Phelphs played well seeing as he has not been fit for a while and things why poeple dont just get off these players backs and praise them for a change ????????

Thought he did well apart from the knock on and kicking the ball dead, which he knew was an error by the look on his face afterwards.

Good cut out ball for Ainscoughs second try.

wasnt it ainscough who kicked the ball dead?

He did ok.

I agree, although I thought that he ran the ball in well.

By the way, if he doesnt go to Leigh, he has the opportunity to cement his place in the team, because Pat is out for 4-6 weeks

What's up with him?

His game was in the main very good tonight but he let himself down with a couple of big errors. The fumble in the first half was poor and he should have dived on the ball in the 2nd half added to the fact he didn't take control of the bomb for their last try.

Overall though a decent showing full of passion but not quite good enough.........................very similar to the team infact.

Why so many neg comments about a guy who played well tonight and is brave enough to put a wigan shirt on and play rugby against some big guys looks around tosee if any guys on here are SL players and no just people who can coach better ans play better than any player !!! me thinks not be PROUD OF YOUR TEAM AND SUPPORT THEM STOP SLAGGIN THEM OFF

i thought he did very well tonight especially after being out so long injured.wigan could do worse than play him at stand off as it was glaringly obvious tonight that is what we are lacking,no disrespect to young tomkins he just needs more time.

Let's appluad them because they have the bottle to go and do what 22,000+ at the game tonight would love to do?

I don't think so.

torn calf

the errors he made were simply down to a lack of games

i thort he looked dangerous on kick returns and with carmont out no doubt he will be shifted to centre if pat is fit

well played phelps

Panda get real you need to wake up footballers are on loads more money for doing a less physical game and woners have you ever played the game for real instead of on then PC ?????????

OH yea forgot you know everything about rugby ????

Silly me

Mate I'm not saying I know everything, far from it. Just calling it as I see it.

You keep referring to the most irrelevant things. What have wages got to do with anything?

I agree that they are the toughest sportsmen in the world. But when you are a professional sportman you will be scrutinised from fans.

FWIW, I liked Phelps last year and I like the effort and commitment he shows, I just didn't think he had a great game. Deal with it.

Few basic errors but that could be put down to confidence and ring rust so to speak, generally impressed with him tonight linked well entered the line at the right time caused Saints some problems. If you could cross him and Pat you would have a very good fullback.

Jonh Great post mate at last someone who actually looks at the game he did well and would be a very good squad player for us and can play in other positions too. How you can pick on a player who turned up is beyond me I totally agree with people having ago if a player consitanly does not perform but Phelps from what ive seen gives it 100% all of the time

I agree with that, he didn't look confortable dealing with kicks and his decision making was poor.