Maguire hasn't instructed his players either way regarding the Press.
The players aren't Banned from talking to the Press, Andy Coley gave an interview on Monday of this week!


However

I get the distinct feeling (And some of you may know where I'm getting this feeling from!), that the Wigan club decided at the start of the year not to get involved in any Public Slanging Matches and everything would be kept in house!

Richard Agar Comments - Nothing said by Wigan
John Kear comments - Nothing said by Wigan
Gary Hetherington comments - Nothing said by Wigan
Disciplinary issues - Nothing said by Wigan or Any Appeals (AFAIK?)
Referee decisions/controversy/choice - Nothing said by Wigan

Like I said, and in a couple of posts I made a few months ago which I can dig out if anyone would like me to, this has been the most impressive piece of "Management" that the club has overseen this year.

boxing references...........you are phil clarke and i claim my £10

Other than Sinfield, Ablett, Burrow, and Donald yes.

I'll answer it then.

It shows that Madge wants his players to do their talking on the pitch.

Good tactics from the Wigan coach. If we stay calm and composed and don't fall for Leeds' cheap mind games beforehand and their "gamesmanship" during what will undoubtedly be the usual poorly refereed, dirty game at Headingley, then we will win.

Madge knows this and is doing everything he can to make sure the players know this too.

They werent at the press conference as they usually would, which regardless of anything means it has affected their preperation

only thing iv seen is the standard interview by sinfield which coley has given the exact same interview on wigans website expecting a tough game etc etc

I'm not confusing anything. Madge has decided to treat the comments with the contempt they deserve.

Sinfield has done another interview with the BBC, Ablett with SL, Burrow and Donald in the YEP

but none of them at the press confrence which was your whole point

They have spoken to the press and they didn't get drawn into it.

Your trying to make everyone think that Leeds have won some kind of Physcological War game when in fact there was only Team playing it.

Your trying to make out that Leeds have some Moral High ground here when every man and his dog can see they haven't!

Just remember, jus because your team have won the Top Proze etc for the last 3 years it doesn't mean that everything they do nad have done was the correct thing and vice versa what every other team has done has been wrong.
You may have got more of them right, but you can't be right about everything all the time (Unless Your Tony Smith of course!

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Yeah!

You've got them really rattled!



I mean how will Wigan ever compete at the weekend when a couple of officials from the club didn't attend a Press conference and instead chose to concentrate their minds on "On the Field" preparations!

It would have been a much better idea I think for Wigan to trot all their players out at a press conference and publically apologise to the Leeds club for their non-existant Bad Behaviour!
I mean of course if a Wigan Player did that after any perceived misdemeanour then the Leeds club would accept it and just get on with the game and not Bleat about it wouldn't they?
Oh Sorry, Tommy tried that and Look what happened!

Leeds made the whole squad available at the press-conference, Wigan 0

[iWigan getting nervous? Maguire has banned players from talking to press this week. Whole Leeds squad was available on Monday. Big contrast.[/i----Neil Barraclough

What a moronic opinion.

You are rapidly turning into a laughing stock with your ever increasing views on this subject.

Our lads will do their talking on the pitch. It seems that your lot will whine to anyone who will listen.

If MM, IL or indeed anyone on the Wigan pay roll was coming out with the kind of guff that you’re Captain, Coach and players have been, then I would be greatly embarrassed

who is asking them for a public apology?

All i said was that the fact they hadnt trusted the players to attend the press conference as they normally would so it has affected them. We will see on saturday how much

Because it seems they cant be trusted to do their talking using actual words! If they could why not just do it? Why have Wigan players attended other press conferences but not this one?


what actually offended you about what McClennan said this week? Or Sinfield?

Why not email Wigan and ask them?

Genuine suggestion, because all you're doing at present is coming out with the same piece of claptrap over and over, as if you feel you're onto some kind of winner - when in reality people recognise it as the most desperate and pathetic ploy we've seen yet to try and make Wigan into the villains of the piece.

Just face the fact, Wigan aren't going to publically respond to the self-pitying statements made by the Leeds camp. Now that may irritate the hell out of you, but that's just the way it is. You'll have to deal with it.

PS: If you want my take, they may feel that responding to such rubbish will just generate more rubbish, and the whole thing will quickly become pointless bickering - kind of like this thread, which you've successfully managed to derail (and more fool me, I suppose, for falling for such idiot shyyte).

Where anywhere does it say officially that Wigan hadn't allowed their players or trusted their players to attend the press conference?

I saw the YEP report on one of the earlier threads where the YEP reporter basically made out that Wigan were lucky to be allowed to stay in the Play offs whilst Leeds had done nothing wrong in the previous game totally ignoring the Buderus Spear Tackle, Ban and subsequent appeal as though it didn't happen!

So what this guy has to say does not alter my opinion (Based on what I know for a fact!) one bit!

Lets just say for 1 minute that Wigan/Maguire thought that it would benefit the club/team more to concentrate on Training/preparing for today's game rather than attend a press conference, Would that be so Mind boggling?

Because that's what's happened, nothing more, nothing less!

They did the same with Richards & Tomkins on Monday over the Albert Goldthorpe Medal, they allowed them to go to the presentation but not the press conference earlier in the day to announce it, they ere training etc.

As Cruncher says

You can read into it what you will, when it comes to Wigan other fans usually do!

Buth trying to divert the Leeds clubs pathetic Whinging this week and trying to blame Wigan doesn't wash with anyone on here!

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Actions speak louder than words. I am very confident that our lads will have strong opinions on the past two week’s events. I would imagine that MM has closed ranks and kept the lads away from the press. It makes sense totally, Wigan now have a great understanding of the current state of mind within the Rhinos camp, whereas you lot have not got a clue about what we are talking about.

I am also very confident that they will use it in the best way possible, by ripping right into your lot on Saturday. I aint saying we will win (it is too close a game to call). We have been brutal this year and I fully expect us to turn it up a notch or two on game day.



TBH nothing offended me personally, but the insinuations that a Wigan player had injured a player after the tackle were below the belt.

The man is embarrassing your once proud club, the only surprise is that Hetherington has not yet chipped in, although I am sure he will have made his feelings clear to his bum chums at Red Hall

[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_league/super_league/wigan/9024266.stmI think this BBC headline sums it up perfectly[/url

How does sitting around fielding pointless questions and crying like a spoilt brat help a players preparation?

Surely it makes more sense to go over tactics and the game plan for Saturday night. Failing that, some relaxation or light cardio or passing drills?

Considering that only a few senior/key players speak to the press before a game anyway; I don't see how not being allowed to talk to some journalists who will be desperate to stir up some nonsense is going to have a negative affect on their preperation?

Perhaps Maguire thinks that the leeds camp is talking enough for both teams?

class

Clarkey aint working for the beeb nowadays is he?

It seems at times like a build up to a boxing bout. TALK IS CHEAP

Keep praying!

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The whole Deacon thing is highly ironic IMO. When we announced his signature all you got on here was negative comments, he won't be able to get a game, etc. Now he's nigh on irreplaceable. Just goes to show how bad a signing Roberts is turning out to be. Anyone can get injured but his loss of confidence issue/myth is a joke IMO. Surely he's fit, isn't he? Playing in the reserve grade and called into last weeks 19? Why can't he force his way back in?

All in all, a massive disappoinment, especially after giving us glimpses of what might have been.

I think Roberts was signed on the basis of those glimpses, so I don't agree that he was a shocking signing. He suffered a severe injury after all. But I do agree that it seems to be taking him an inordinately long time to recover, and this doesn't speak well for his psychological state. At least Maguire is the sort of coach who will drop players like this until they get their act together.

As for Deacon - who'd have thought he'd become so valuable to us. His excellent kicking game is definitely something we've been lacking.