Coley was excellent for you. I disagree about Feka though. Thought he was poor, was well shackled every time he plodded it in. How long did he play? 20 mins? Waste of a bench spot imo.

Why we didnt put Bailey in the centre and leave Joel in place was confusing for me.

Teams looking to win the title don't generally throw away 20 point leads. I can't ever remember leeds or saints doing that in the last 4 years.

The structures in place and coach reacting correctly to situations should prevent that.

Some tough games coming up for wigan and will be interesting to see how you fare.

Bailey I feel is running in old legs, and his injury has not helped, he has lost significant mobility. The way Orfrod went through him summed his performance up tonight.

He’s not the first person to encourage me and certainly won’t be the last. I remember when Chris Irvine fell [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co-xAxTo83ounder my spell[/url.

I agree, which is why leaving him centre field seemed odd to me, I dont remember him taking the ball in.

I would rather have him in the middle than being exposed to the pace men on the outside.

Chris Nero & Paul Sykes? Pace?

I disagree



For me, it took away from Joels game and left us exposed in the middle.

Why was Prescott and Mossop dropped for this match they did nothing wrong last week against Catalan.

Feka did less than 20 mins again - Pathetic.

The quicker McIlorum returns from injury to take over from Riddell the better.

We seemed to be obsessed with getting the ball to Pat Richards wing in the second half. I don't think Gleeson and Goulding touched the ball more than twice in the second half because of this.

Sykes has pace, Nero maybe not but then again if Haley comes into the line wide then we are scoonered. Thought Tomkins also had a decent effect on the game from centre.

Only thing we missed was his defence which Bailey should have been able to cover.

Can't believe it!
How can we let Bradford come back like that after the way we played at Warrington the other week?....Badtimes!

we lacked composure big style tonight, they scored 4 tries from 4 chances, we should have been out of sight in the first half, we scored 4 tries but missed a few more great chances through lack of composure. we have had a decent start to the season but the silly handling errors and giving away needless penalties are still there from previous seasons.

They weren't dropped. Mossop has played on pain killing injections and only played last week because Hansen was injured. Feka didn't play last week because Maguire is rotating the players (the talk about Feka being dropped last week is wrong IMO).



McIllorum would suit the way Maguire has the team playing the game but he needs to improve certain areas of his game such as his passing off the deck. I thnk he is great prospect though and I hope he gets his chance.

Dave

basically, in the 2nd half we wer e and bradford absolutely ripped us to pieces

I really do not think they did, we simply failed to react to 3 key plays which were easily preventable.

you could tell as soon as the second half started that bradford started playing much better!

you could tell by the way they wer running with the ball! they were running as if they actually wanted to break our line and score!

where as we just wanted to let the clock run out

It sadly looked that way.

We should have been more then 20 points up in the first half tbh and I saw no reason why the players didn't want to come out and continue that sort of form in the 2nd but they really looked like they'd moved on to next week 40 minutes too soon.

It's a real shame to lose that 100% record like that tonight but aslong as they learn from it we'll be fine.

Games gone now, bring on next Friday.

I think that Wigan will be up there with the best this season....however I just love to see a fightback...fair play to Bradford...they were nailed on for a hammering at half time.
It just goes to show what spirit can do.

Hardly ripped us to pieces, simply out desired us in the second half and did the basics right - coupled with a few key plays that caught us flat footed. Was our game in the bag and we let it slip, hopefully we'll learn from it. All credit to bradford for sticking with it and taking the win.

1- Roberts - Very good again, just the last mistake ended up in a try for Bradford.

2- Goulding - Apart from the try ok, drop for next week.

3 - Gleeson - Tried hard as always, not a good winger outside him to create for

4 - Carmont - Doing well until injury, we really missed him

5- Richards - Played well as always IMO

6- S.Tomkins - Tried hard but kicks were off the boil tonight

7- Leulaui - Ineffective at 9 tonight

8- Fielden -Apart from the 2 missed tackles which Langley went 20 yards and the one which let in the last try I thought he played well.

9- Riddell - We are better going forward with Riddell at 9 but his defence is rubbish, Steve Brookstein has done bigger hits.

10- Coley - Quality, maybe gives away the odd penalty but other than that he will be playing for England if he carries on.

11- Hansen - Good steay performance as always

12- J.Tomkins - Quality at 12, will be England 12 if he carries on.

13- O'Loughlin - Good steady performance as always.

14- Feka - Needs to run from deeper and more game time

15- Deacon - Did ok and tried hard, should have been kicking instead of Sam IMO

16- Bailey - Off the pace, dropped for Mossop next week.

17- O'Carroll - Good perfomance, massive heart and desire.

Naive isn't the word, is. It was vintage Noble, one out, rugby in the second half. Our forwards were running into a brick wall because we refused to get it out wide.

Unbelievably disappointed in last night's display. We had Bradford by the scruff of the neck and we took our foot off the gas and then panicked.

Best post ever?

Vintage Noble:

13/10/01 - Super League Grand Final (Old Trafford)
Wigan Warriors - Won 37-6 (Att: 60,164)

Well Maguire said he was, so id maybe say on this occasion David that you are wrong.