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Surprised to see Cust in there, thought he was done after going off injured again

We really need Powells experience back in the team IMO. I can see Friday being an extremely tough game minus our missing forwards.

I'd go-

Field
Miski King Wardle Marshall
French Smith
Byrne O'Neill Smithies
KPP Farrell Shorrocks

Subs
Mago Dupree Nsemba Powell

Field
Miski
King
Wardle
Marshall
French
Smith
Byrne
Powell
Dupree
Farrell
shorrocks
Smithies

Mago
KPP
Hill
Powell

KPP to play prop off the bench as he did in his first couple of games back
Agree with NK about the need to bring Powell back.

KPP performs better as a prop.

Does Powell cover at 13 again as he was doing with the original shift of Bevan/Jai to 6? That seemed to allow the 6 to come in at 3rd man and gave him more space meaning we effectively had 2 fullbacks that caused havoc.

Think we should line up something like:

Litten
Mcintosh
Tuimavave
Sutcliffe
Swift
Trueman
Clifford
Sao
Houghton
Taylor
Savelio
Lane
Cator

Satae
Dwyer
Brown
Scott

Need a big game from our starting props whoever Peet goes with, Ellis missing again is a big blow

I think you meant to post this on the Hull forum.

I know you're probably only joking but we should be encouraging/welcoming opposition supporters to post on this forum. I've been coming on here since 2003 and it's $hite compared to what it was like back then.

Big fan of Litten from what i have seen of him. Looks set for a big future. Any Hull FC fans opinion of him?

Dupree and Byrne starting props, bench Powell Mago Hill Nsemba, rest of team as you'd expect,

Harry Smith again. What did we do in a past life to deserve his kicking

25th time of asking!

Got out of jail with that one

That was hideous. A performance that should embarrass any semi-professional side. No skill, attacking structure or cohesion. After two weeks to prepare its completely unacceptable for a Wigan side.

I hope to see a strong interview from Peet completely condemning the performance - not another one about how hard we tried and how much the players care about each other.

Never in doubt

The execution was dreadful all night but delighted to see us hit Wardle in space rather than a back peddling Farrell. We really need to use his footwork more. The defence of the middle unit kept us in the game but the direction of the attack is just shocking. That was a flavour tonight of the conditions we’ll have to probably deal with in the play offs and we know (based on the signings next year) that we don’t have the personnel to win that against better teams. Hull played their part in it being one of the lowest quality RL games I think I’ve ever set my eyes on so to be home soaked in 25 mins after the final whistle with a win makes it a big relief.

Can’t defend that, not good enough. It’ll take a miracle to make OT on our current form, let alone to think about winning there.

I’ve tried to be patient all season but I lost it tonight.

French needs to move back to 1. The experiment must end despite the games we have won with him in the halves. Field was better tonight but we are stifling our most talented player by playing him out of position.

It will be a struggle to do much without Havard though. I believe he is our best prop. Ellis will need to avoid injury and suspension to give us any chance.

I know we were poor tonight, and Hull defended valiantly, but the officiating was beyond dreadful at times.

Well Peet at least acknowledged how poor it was but I found this quote interesting:

'It probably looked like two teams who had come back from a week of not playing.'

Why on earth are we bothering to fight for the top 2 then? Wigan need to find a way to utilise the week off more productively - that's three times in a row we've had a blank gameweek and been poor the week after.

Another drab performance but we have shown we can pull out a great performance when the pressure is on against a good side so I’m not giving up on this season.

It baffles me (across Rugby League generally) this kind of comment.

Teams are in the weekly grind, particularly on short turnarounds the comments from the coaches are always along the lines of "Busted. Battered, bruised, no time to rest, one training session because of it etc".

But then when the rest weeks come, inevitably teams are really poor the week after and it's always "the week off didn't help us".

Which is it? There has to be a happy medium or is it just never right?

We’ve also shown we can pull out dross on the big occasion too. There’s only a small amount of hope left for this season but certainly no expectation. No one coming off that ground tonight can possibly think we have a realistic chance of winning the whole thing. Fast forward to the future and we have a semi final where it’s chucking it down and we blow it because that’s what this team is built for unfortunately.