I think he meant already a Wigan thug ...
I would agree.

Saints deserved to win but a good game? Low quality so par for course in 2016.

Perhaps someone should tell him that when you get binned you have to leave the field cos the decision wont change

Perhaps someone should tell him that when you get binned you have to leave the field cos the decision wont change also Bateman should learn from past mistakes and keep his trap shut instead of winding players up. Nob ed

Damp squib more like, "wrecking ball" no, more like "wrecking off the ball". He only made one pass out of the tackle after struggling to make metres in the game. LMS sorted him out converted a so called big hulk into a Big Sulk, very poor sportsmanship not responding to a hand shake after the final whistle.

Talking of bins, shouldn't you be crawling back into yours

Only FPN out of those mentioned deserves a ban for me.

The Tomkins one looked bad at first but Fleming was falling and it was more instinctive than anything from Tomkins.

Penalty sufficient for the Isa and Crosby ones. The Crosby one actually came off the shoulder.

I don't like the cannonball tackles and a ban to Mossop wouldn't shock me but I've seen worse and he might just get off with it.

Haven't got a clue what FPN was playing at though. Hair pull, tackling a man without the ball and a half punch/half slap all within 60 seconds. Not made himself look good there at all.

I'd say that's pretty spot on on all incidents above.

The one I didn't like last night though and hasn't really been mentioned was Sarginson pushing Swift into the advertising boards, very unnecessary and reckless on his part and easily could've resulted in a bad injury for Swift if he ends up going over the boards.

Yeah you're right that wasn't good either. It was just completely needless and dangerous.

I think that is a fair and reasoned assessment. I didn't think that there was too much wrong with the Isa tackle. Sarginson was stupid, it was unnecessary but Swift did something similar on Tomkins in the 1st half.

Similar? Come on Brian haha. I'm sure even you couldn't have kept a straight face writing that.

I said all along, we bought the wrong Frank.

Can't see any bans there myself but I'm praying they don't ban fpn for Friday's semi

Hull sold 6500 tickets so far for Fridays game.

8000 or so attendance then, assuming we shift a few more before Friday

It's yours to lose.

Bang on really. Mossops was no worse than I saw Isa do and 2 Saints players during the game. The main difference is there was a slight kerfuffle to the Mossop one that drew attention to it. FPN to cop a ban, penalty sufficient for the others. Must admit the Percival one on Tomkins looked awful at the ground but contact was to the chest, no issue there.

There's a lot of tainted optimism floating round the Wigan board
As a casual observer, who couldn't care less who wins, I don't think Wigan can win this game unless the codheads throw it.

Exactly. That's what I was trying to say.

Oh come on,even the most rabid,one eyed,biased Wigan fan could see that Swift was playing at the ball and Sarginson was playing at the man.

"Haven't got a clue what FPN was playing at though. Hair pull, tackling a man without the ball and a half punch/half slap all within 60 seconds. Not made himself look good there at all."
Perhaps he objected to being bitten all over his chest?

Based on what, we haven't been playing that well, more grinding out results, a couple of weeks ago after we had lost to the bottom two and you had beat Catalan and Wakey, you were red hot favourites.

As everyone has been saying you have had plenty of injuries and some will be back next week.

Still a 50/50 game IMO.

Cup semi. 50/50 it's who performs on the day.

well we've got an entire season of form and playing style/tactics to use to make a prediction
imo, the way wigan have played so far this season whilst being effective enough to get them where they are, isn't going to beat hull if hull play their this season game.
it is a semi, play off, one off game whatever you want to call it, in that respect anything can happen, but the season say's it ain't a 50/50 game.
I'm gonna have to give wigan 12 start

Why as sky bet give Hull 2 start.