Exactly, we lost away at Wakey at a similar time last season and then won out the season I think, could be the kick up the we need but no Field and French is worrying.

Hull played very good and deserved their win.

irrc, last season when we beat you at home, didnt you go on to win every game or the vast majority of them? could be a good omen getting beat by us lol


btw great travelling support, amazing what saturday/sunday games can do for the longer trips away

Credit where credit’s due, FC fully deserved the win today. A side lacking in quality but full of guts and derermination, that’s what got them over the line.

Apart from knocking on once, what did he do wrong?

If you don’t bring your A game you are likely to get burned.

Credit to Hull for their win and performance.

No team can play well every week, we were poor. It was the errors that did us more than anything. We only really played for about 15 mins and came away with a 2 point loss.

I don’t think any individual deserves particular criticism, it was just a collective poor game, it happens. Move on and don’t dwell on it.

All the top teams have games like that every season. Nothing for you guys to be concerned about. I don't think you were terribly poor, Hull started very fast and were positive and aggressive and you just didn't quite match that. Then when you were on the back foot the errors started to creep in. I'm sure you will shake that performance off immediately.

Well played to Hull, deserved the win and showed some real enthusiasm in defence and attack.



One of those games for Wigan where we make too many errors under pressure at times from Hull and never got into the game.

Eckersley looked a real threat running out wide and showed some nice cut out passes too, just needs a bit of work on defence but looks a real prospect for the next few years.

Surprised we only used Bryne so sparingly, he showed some real aggression when he came on which was good to see.

In the scheme of things it will give us a nice wake up call to keep up the effort and concentration over the last half of.the season.

66% completion rate, 16 errors tells the tale. https://www.superleague.co.uk/match-centre/report/4490 We always seem to have one or two of these games per year. Wakefield away last year being a prime example. Fair play to Hull, that score doesn't do them justice.

66% completion rate, 16 errors tells the tale. https://www.superleague.co.uk/match-centre/report/4490 We always seem to have one or two of these games per year. Wakefield away last year being a prime example. Fair play to Hull, that score doesn't do them justice.

Sickness ravaged the camp yesterday. Half a dozen players were shouting to Huey and Ralph in the dressing room before the match.

It makes a lot of sense looking at that performance.

That would explain a lot.

Suzy Banyon wrote:
Sickness ravaged the camp yesterday. Half a dozen players were shouting to Huey and Ralph in the dressing room before the match.

It makes a lot of sense looking at that performance.



Hmm, watching on Sky and we commented that a few looked "green around the gills" from the beginning.

Do we have any evidence as such, Harry Smith put it down to "one of those days" on WiganTV.

Danger is it sounds like sour grapes, either way, Hull played well and got the best out of Walker, Sutcliffe and Trueman.

Whatever the reasons were behind that performance, I think we can just leave it behind us and it'll probably be one we look back on as actually doing us some good if anything. The side now knows they can be beaten by pretty much any side in this comp if we don't turn up with the right energy/attitude and I doubt we'll see anything like it again for the rest of the season.

On a side note, it was a very short cameo at the end from Liam Byrne but that looked like the Liam Byrne who took Catalans pack apart in Perpignan last year. He looked like a man who was not happy that he'd been given so few minutes to me and hopefully it kicks him in to gear. That Liam Byrne could be massive for us over the rest of this season.

The Liam Byrne at Catalans is memorable because it’s one of the rare occasions he has done anything of note. I hope Peet is ruthless and gets rid at the end of the season, we’ve been waiting around for him to develop but with more rule changes for tackle technique coming in I just don’t think he is worth persevering with.

One of my favourite away games. A great stadium and no queues for the bar!
As far as the game goes if that was our bad one in 2024 at least it wasn’t too costly. Every team has its ups and downs. We are lucky that we have significantly more ups than most.

He was good for a decent spell around that game but I can't sit here and say that he's ever pulled together a full season or even half a season like that and it's always been his challenge to find a level of consistency. You may we'll prove to be correct in terms of him adapting to those tackle height changes but as with any player, the club won't 'just get rid' and I'm sure he'll be here for a while yet (and rightfully so IMO) and he'll get the chance to adapt. In prop terms he's still relatively young and he has shown enough in his Wigan career to think he can get better, as most props do when they get to 25/26/27.

Might have been a bug going around the Wigan camp, but Jack Charles for Hull was blowing chunks on the pitch around the 20 minute mark as well. Very humid day

Looks like no further action re. Dupree, Harrison given two matches for Wire after his red card

Some consitency over the tip tackle week on week then

Really impressed with Charles on the day. I've seen him a couple of times and he's struggled a bit but now the side is playing better and he had a good effort from the forwards to play on the back of, he looked far more comfortable. Fingers crossed he can be a player Hull can build around for the future like KR are doing with Lewis. Also stumped if I know why Litten hasn't been playing much recently.

O Neil one was a lot different and definitely worse as the player "landed on his neck/head" whereas the Dupree one didn't.

So are you saying Dupree should be banned or O Neil shouldn't have been?

I personally don't think the Dupree one is a sinbin, but can just about see the argument for O Neil sin binning, but not ban.

I'm saying Keighran wasn't banned and neither was Dupree - with a bit of tongue in cheek. I was surprised Keighran's ban was overturned TBH.

If any lifting is to be outlawed then penalise it every time, the current rule of thumb seems to be based on the outcome of the tip. O'Neil caused the player's head to hit the ground fairly hard, Keighran's caused slight contact with the ground and Dupree's was a fairly soft landing.

I'd have banned Dupree for the sheer stupidity of it! Brad O'Neill put in a tackle I'd love to still be legal, in a physical contest, during a game being played at a fast pace and he had little chance to have second thoughts. Adam Keighran just seems incapable of learning his lesson when it comes to that type of tackle (with him again nearly getting in to awkward positions at Hull on Saturday) but again it was a physical/fast paced game and you could give him some leeway. That was just madness and brainless from Dupree on Saturday, with him coming in to the tackle late and from behind and having loads of time to think that it probably wasn't the best idea. It summed up the whole sides frustration and lack of concentration.

He's struggling to nail a position down a little bit currently. He has stated he wants to be a fullback but seems to have been jumped in fullback queue by Logan Moy at Hull.
Personally I think centre is his best bet if he wants regular gametime at Hull, although he needs to sort his 1 on 1 defence out.