So Potter didn't watch the game last week, the majority of the frist half were two man tackles and not three man. There were numerous times where I thought Saints were team doing the slowing down.

Lima - nothing to do with slowing down play.

If Potter is playing mind games he needs to use his more, nonsense of the highest quality.

Doesnt a quick PTB make the game more faster and alot better to watch?

Correct. Gary Hetherington had offered himself as an early contender in pre-season and now Mick 'got owned in the final' Potter has offered himself as a candidate in a spontaneous fatuous outburst.

It promises to be a close contest this season.

Depends what teams do with that quick play the ball. If the PTB is really fast all teams need to do is have a player with good footwork at dummy half and just scoot all the time, which doesn't promote good attacking rugby. Having to rely on playing more expansive because the ruck is slow arguably does promote better attacking rugby.

Of course the worse the team is, the more they struggle to play proper rugby, the more they have to rely on scooting and quick play the balls and in their case the ruck has to be fast in order for them to play any sort of rugby, let alone 'exciting' rugby.

It's just my opinion of course, but 'fast' doesn't necessarily mean better (as my girlfriend keeps reminding me). Rugby for me is about using creativity, about trying to beat the men in front of you with skill, not just with pace because they are trying to get back into the defensive line and you've managed to pick up the ball and run with it.

Last seasons contenders.

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Pity we'll have to wait until April for John Kear to nominate himself.

If he's still in a job.

It makes the game a scooting hookers paradise.

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I think we best get used to it, i think it will be the same all season.

Oh dear.....oh dear. Wigan cheating?....surely not!


Your dodgy Australian inspired techniques have been well and trully exposed, and are common knowledge throughout the game, including Redhall. Hopefully the new regulations will put an end to your borefest, and the Rugby League will once again be the fast attacking spectacle that most fans would prefer to watch.

You have the option of changing, or be continually pinged by the ref before he loses patience and starts waving cards.

Simples really.

Did someone lose there title last season....

You must work for John Smiths you sound so bitter.

What's the betting that we lose the penalty count? Let's be honest this is all that these comments are about.

Can anyone (Bilko) tell me the last time we were penalised less than the opposition? I'd guess at Catalan's at home last season?

If only we could stop scoring those pesky tries, you might have half a point.

Gleeson's score at OT was indeed a 'borefest'.

He really does make Damo look like Stephen Hawkins.

This bit is the best.

"It's just a case of doing the best you can against that. I think the governing bodies are on to it and looking at it. It's just very hard to see on a field."

So where can you see it?

What a tit brain.

You've got him bang to rights there.

We haven't been this hated for a long time. Effin marvellous to be back

when you read that feature, read potters comments in the style of beaker from the muppet show, it sounds right then...

All this Wigan bashing is getting boring now...

I never get bored of it - shows we've got under people's skin. It's hilarious.

I think the coaches coming out and saying stuff is funny, shows how much they fear us. But when opposition fans jump on everything they say and believe it and try to justify it for themselves, then it becomes boring.

From a very young age you get told to slow the play the ball down so the defensive line can get back into place, we are just doing it to perfection with 2 men tackling up top with the 3rd wrapping the legs up and tackling the opposition player so that they cannot offload or make anymore yards as well as squeezing the life out of the opposition player in the meantime, nothing but perfect technique is to blame so Potter and the likes can go and whistle, we are a very well drilled defensive and attacking unit.