he was my MOM they targeted him all game and did nothing wrong even with punishment

Got out of jail there. Can’t see what excuses there are for that first half performance. It just wasn’t competent and first game of the season or not there is no real excuse for that.

If IL was thinking of saving some money by not spending George Burgess wages I think a rethink is required.

Still two points after a poor performance is still two points.

Terrible first half. Better second.

Glad they were able to tough out a win. Gutted for field, hope it's not too bad. I'd be getting Hastings and French in asap assuming they still play for us.

For me hardaker showed exactly what I was talking about regarding him being a different class to sarginson. Came up with a game breaking play when we needed it.

Nice to see Smith kicking well at the end too.

Thought the squad looked a little light and so it was the case better teams than Leigh (who gave good value to be fair)will turn that side over so maybe look see to see if any wingers are available Hanley is a way off being ready just yet.

But better second half thats for sure.

Best opening game we could’ve hoped for. We have had a shambles of a pre season considering how long it’s been and we’ve won Leigh’s cup final. The club need to wake up on how a big club needs to act but ultimately they’ve dodged a bullet because the players are conditioned to dig as deep as you can go.

The only way is up.

Thought Hanley was solid, performed consistently throughout.

Here we go
How do you know hes not spent George Burgess salary cap portion of his wage?

I'll give you a hint, he spent 110 of it on resigning a couple.of star players.

I wonder how much of the first 30 mins had to do with pre-season games. Leigh having 2 and our 3/4 of our first team having half a game. We took a long time to get into 1sr gear, when we did it was 20 - nil. Not the disaster some will make it out to be.

I still feel our pack is a bit young, missing 1 grown up in the front row.

Thought it would be like that, happy to sneak the two points but we'll definitely need some 3/4's back next week, Wakey will murder us for pace if we don't.

Harry Smith takes loads of credit out of tonight. He had such a tough day in that Salford friendly and then he goes in to tonight and runs that fightback. We had no chance without him and I’m really pleased that he’ll walk away from tonight really confident.

Hah hah.

Quite right, Dave. That performance was all IL's fault.

You've been saying all along that we should get rid of him

It’s was the most predictable first half I’ve ever seen! The club should feel so thankful to walk away with a win after the pre season they’ve put together. To say it’s a bonus two points is such an understatement. It has to be a wake up call moving forward.

Nice of you to be gracious in victory. I thought we played really well for most of the game and should have been leading by more than 10 points at half time. But 2nd half even though you only won it 12-0, defence wise it was quite comfortable for you guys. But having said that, I reckon we will get stuffed next week.

Don't be confusing him with facts.

Everything I expected from you guys.

Flew out the blocks, took it to us, ran out of steam.

To be fair to the lad he grew in confidence as the game went on , I spoke too soon .
We do need a kicker though

Yes, there you go. I don’t think commenting we need a a big experienced prop is out of order and unless I missed it we haven’t signed a replacement for GB.

Well i guess that makes it a hat trick. Three of the usual suspects jump on a comment about us looking lacking in the prop department. I honesty don’t know why bother with this anymore.

We must have all misinterpreted your words, here they

"Got out of jail there. Can’t see what excuses there are for that first half performance. It just wasn’t competent and first game of the season or not there is no real excuse for that.
If IL was thinking of saving some money by not spending George Burgess wages I think a rethink is required.
Still two points after a poor performance is still two points."

Not sure how your reply measures up to your original statement.

And here's me interpreting it the same way as a couple of others, that it was another not so thinly veiled dig at IL for a BS reason

Well you may be better choosing your words better, because that's not what you said as far as I can make out.

Played about as poorly as we could for the first half hour. The last thing we needed was another back getting injured. Do we have anyone returning next week apart from Hastings? How far off is KPP?

didn't he give up possession in our own 20m at least 3 times?

I wasn't aware you did ... apart from those occasions on which Wigan underperform.

Come on, Dave. Stop pretending you weren't just making a silly (and, yet again, rather desperate) jab at IL.

First game of the season, coming off a massively disrupted pre-season, short of key personnel, all kinds of other issues going on, British RL teetering on the verge of disappearing, Leigh doing their usual 'as long as we beat Wigan life is worth living after all' thing etc.

We win anyway. But it wasn't a romp, so that's the end of the best chairman we've had in both our lifetimes.

What do you want, mate? Mo and Whelan back (even though both are well past it)? Sumner Baxendale? Gary Hetherington and the Yorkshire Mafia to take over (and still not win as much as we have)? How about all-mouth-and-no-results-Koukash

Ever thought about giving it a rest with your endless, pointless, bizarre, anti-IL campaign? You make yourself look a total plonker with this stuff.

I though he was poor.

Both halves were for me.

Our last tackle options were garbage for most of the night.

We need Hastings back in the team very quickly.

Powell in my opinion was easily the best player on the pitch followed by Sidlow.