Leeds spoiling at the PTB for all they are worth..

12-0 30mins

12 - 0 HT

Not been masively impressed with the ref, however, you are worth your lead and probably deserve to be a bit further ahead.

14 - 6 60 mins...

Still think Leeds look knackered and Wigan dont

20-6 67 mins

Just checked the calendar. It's Feb so doesn't matter.......to Leeds anyway

20-6 75mins

20-6 FT

Well played. The best team won. We were clearly second best

forwards were fantastic tonight, on top almost from word go, mcilorum played very well, and some of the defence was cruel at times, stevo got it right, a lot more desire from us out there tonight, we looked like we wanted it

Very much so, complete transformation from last week. Still not overly impressed with Luaki or Flower, though. Hughes did ok coming in, mostly solid defence, though possibly had a couple of chances to pass and didn't, Goulding & Charnley were excellent in both attack and defence, and as you say, McIlorum had another good game. Hock's starting to look mean & nasty again, too!

Need to watch the TV coverage now, to see if I can make sense of some of Halibut's decisions...

Not turning this in to a 'told you so' thing but I said in the week it was crazy to write off players like Goulding and McIlorum so soon and both were outstanding tonight. I also said today we must give Lauaki a chance and he was another who was excellent showing great footwork and aggression.

Well done to the 3 of them. I'm really happy for them and Wane.

McIlorum was very impressive and I thought Lauaki had a much better game. He came on and added a bit more aggression which is exactly what you want. I did think Flower was ineffective though but at least he worked his socks off. He doesn't look big enough for a prop and gets dominated in the tackle but it's still early doors. Defensively he was good as were the rest of the team.

Except for that Goulding of course. Can't defend and never passes to his winger

goulding was great going forward, and looks alot more reliable than joel in his spot, with charnley receiving alot more good ball. the halves looked alot better but that was probably down to a dominant forward performance. finch was incredible at recovering loose ball. im liking the look of tuson too.

After only playing a few games together, we are starting to see some signs that we are once again going to be in the mix come the end of the season.. The new lads need to get some more belief. Attacking wise we look better and the one thing which impresed me was that didn't switch off which we could be accussed of many times last season. Defence was really good.

Well done! 7/10... the signs look good.

I think its fair to say that whilst we were good, Leeds were very poor tonight and seem to be playing exactly like they did this time last year ie trying to force the play when they should of been settling things down with basic play. In the early part of the second half Leeds forwards were trying to force the pass early in the tackle count and you just knew that they were never going to win the game that way.

Wigan bullied their pack out of the game in that first half with good controlled aggression and i thought the Wigan players did very well to maintain their discipline when it really mattered.

Micky Mac was sensational.

Tonights performance came on the back of 2 things

An excellent kicking game
A dominant forward pack

The rest came into it's own. Just goes to show the importance of getting the kicking right. Leeds looked tired and p*ssed off with constantly having to bring the ball from their own 20. The go forward and ultra aggresive defence spurred on the backs. Tommy & Finch worked tirelesly with their organisation and Finch was everywhere - I think he cleaned up all of Leeds ball spills. Mcillorum was immense in defence and certsinly banjoed a few of the Leeds players.

Despite my reservations I think that Wane has been justified in some of his comments - The skill levels looked better and the defence was brutal (even though I thought under Maguire it was brutal at times). I think that last weeks game has gone down as a learning point for Wane and I don't see the team or coaching team making the same mistakes in under estimating the opposition again this season. From tonights showing there is an awful lot to be excited about, especially when this team can only get better as the season goes on.

A massive difference tonight imo was the fact we turned up thinking that we had play well to win rather than thinking it was in the bag. The kicking game made sense and the tackling was brutal.

All the people going bananas after last week look utterly stupid now.

i agree that some of the comments from last week were over the top, but then its unnecessary saying this when we could quite easily turn in another poor performance next week. but regardless, this week was encouraging.

IMO it was pretty obvious we needed more game time together last week.. massive overreaction as per usual...

The difference between this week and last? Desire! We wanted it more this week and it showed in everything we did, from great scramble defense to accurate slick passing.

shifting the ball from right to left seems alot more effective so far. anything in that?

Charnley was superb for you tonight. He kept his head up despite his first try being disallowed and got on with the game. That's a sign of maturity and I hope he has a great season.

Micky Mac cops a lot of unjustified stick. If he has a bad game he is not good enough for Wigan to some who seem to ignore games like this one and the 2010 GF. As to Goulding he still has to prove he can be 1st choice centre because he has not got performances under his belt like Micky to point to. He looks like he will get his chance though and given the way he was treated by Noble, good luck to him. As to Lauaki he was pretty average and far from excellent.