I think they should remove the captaincy from sean oloughlin, Sean is a cracking player on his day, but has no leadership on the pitch. To the likes of all past wigan captains. Instead whenever someone scores a try he stands behind the post with his hands on his hips. No control of the wigan team what so ever. Other wigan captains laid into the team when ever they did anything wrong. At the end of last season when barrett was captain wigan did a lot better because he was talking to them all of the time. Sean then would be able to work on his own game then.
You cannot take anything away from wakefield how well they played today with 8 first team players out, but why does sam tomkins not get a start?

NO!!

Pity he only has 3 of them a year, he is POO the sooner he goes from Wigan the better, 40 tackles a game does not make him Wigan standard

Give over, he is one of our better players.

Today had nothing to do with him.

Lockers is a great player and would look fantastic in a better team, but he is no leader.

Fielden or Carmont for captain please.

I can't decide if this is a genuine thread or a joke thread? I'll go with joke thread.

Think him and fielden should share it tbh, i remember last year when bailey and fielden shared it and it really fired fielden up. Would take some pressure off Lockers too.

Apart from some dropped balls Lockers has been the best player throughout all friendlies and today's game - why on earth would we need to take the Captaincy off him / make him share it?

He isnt inspirational enough ? O'Loughlin is a top second rower but never a captain or a loose forward.

lockers is only an average player it's about time people accepted that.

Agreed I thought he was one of our better players today along with Leuluai, Feka and Tomkins.

cause he s not a captain thats why feilden all the way for me

@ this and all other threads/posts on this messageboard tonight! Knee jerk or what?! First game of the season and the pitchforks are out already. I look forward to the coming months!

I think we should start fixing the problems that we actually have rather than inventing "inspiration" issues. Like completion, defence, ideas in attack. Once we get all those and are still nowhere - then you'd start to pick on things like "inspiration".

i would hand it to tommy and let him lead by example.

From what i saw he was dishing out the bollockings right from the off, Fielden got a good few.

Not sure what for with Fielden as imo he had a good game and least retained the ball unlike a fair few others.

That's what I noticed too - and much more so than in the past. Screaming at players to get in the line, constantly talking to the ref and challenging him when needed.

Totally happy with him as our captain. Its the team I'm not happy with

??? Fielden was solid.

My views are well posted on here. I haven't seen anythging to change those.

but obviously it is not working is it....

The team isn't short of problems as it hasn't been for a while. but Lockers isnt one of them.

Good call, the best "leader" we had on field today.

Are you actually for real?

Fcking idiot

I agree Fielden was solid, but on a couple of occasions he ran a bad line and Locky let him know about it.

Sadly i think the performance today was all we can expect from Fielden now, he no longer has the power to hurt defences and he runs too upright to really make an impact on the defensive line.

I think sadly solid is about as good as we can expect from him these days.