SHOCKING defence awful.

i seriously hope i don't hear shaun wane call the defence a small problem this weak. Its terrible almost no existent on that right hand side. Gouldings turn to be dropped this week i think.

Biggest loss in the off season was Harrison Hansen because it was avoidable.

We can't keep haemorrhaging players like we do and expect to keep getting away with it.

thats a shocking call.

Is this a fact, or an opinion?

worst Wigan team since Millward...Officiating is bad as well

Agree this side is a really poor we can forget about a final this season.

FACT...Wane got rid of Hansen because he couldn't count on him staying fit, he was injury prone ...

This is official , although my lips are sealed as to source

At this rate we'll be lucky to make the play offs...Thank F*** London and Catalan are Shi**

Agree your right hand defence is in trouble, but what is the problem with the officiating?

Fact. He would have stayed if Wigan would have offered a similar deal to Salford. He should have been signed up earlier in the season instead of that stupid taking up the option just so he could be sold. Bad management, simple as that.

It's a fact.

At the end of the HH was signed to a contract and thus the power was with Wigan. Regardless of what HH did or didn't want to do the club had to play ball with him. Why sell our best defensive player, a stalwart of the side and not replace him with like for like quality?

I said it earlier on in the week that our recruitment has been absolutely shocking this season and i was slated for it. Hopefully tonight will be the wake up call for the some of the fans that think we either recruited well or think it's acceptable to replace some of the best players in the league with either children or players with massive question marks against them.

So instead we decide to go with our current option of trying every man and his dog there - Hughes, Club and Bateman by my reckoning.

i wish people would stop making excuses at every turn. It's a poor decision by Wigan and we are now seeing the results of it with a leaky defence.

much better with the sliding defence rather than the rush defence.

If the defence was like that from the go this would have been easy but for some reason it was crap 1st half.

I do wonder what the defensive tactics are, wether they are rush from outside in or to just slide. Goulding looked a different player when it was sliding in that 2nd half. Plenty of improvement in that 2nd half which was pleasing.


Eddie hemmings could he sound any more disappointed.

Much better second half and we'll be fine eventually but it'll take some time to get over the losses and get everyone bedded in. I stick to my opinion that Hansen is the biggest miss because I believe we could have avoided it (I say that because we didn't have to take a fee for him especially after losing so much experience).

We're a fully fit side and a solid right sided second rower off challenging for trophies again IMO. Both can be sorted as the season goes on with a bit of luck.

Fully redeemed ourselves 2nd half. We looked a bit nervous at times early on I thought. Keating (ginger 7) for Hull KR ran the show that first half.

2nd half they were pretty much shot!

That side of Charnley, Goulding, Smith and Hughes was absolutely embarrassed in defence tonight they need to work on that during the week. Schoolboy stuff.

A much better performance overall and result than last year's home match v HKR, even with the forum's favorite son HH playing in the game last season.

Much better 2nd half , but we still have a long way to go if we are to come anywhere near last seasons success

If they don't get the tackle bags out, we might get hammered this coming Thursday.

We are lacking some class in the side.

To me it looked like the line speed in defence was poor. They'd step up a few paces with no conviction and let the forwards run at them and kept losing the collision.

Close to the line this meant the defence was flat footed, not moving up to meet the attack and not sliding across causing the players to bunch up.

Rovers kept getting an extra man down their attacking side again and again and it seemed like someone down the middle wasn't moving across to account for this leaving the defence short time and time again. That's something that O'Loughlin and McIlorum do but it didn't seem to be happening tonight.

The music at the start of the game was very apt, it was a circus without a tent and the ring master had left leaving the clowns in charge.
We seemed to make life hard for ourselves all over the pitch through sloppy play and bad decisions, not just in defence.
On the plus side we didn't concede second half and came away with a win.