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18 - 6 Wigan

TBH Wigan are clearly a stronger team with a large number of older more experienced players. Physically out muscled, not so much in the FR but the back row with the exception of Windrow.

All the same plenty of positives in the form of individual effort.

Windrow, Shaw, Butler matching it up front.

Skriven, Camplin and Law playing well above their ages. Butterworth some nice touches but Bowes yet to fire. The rest are a bit men against boys but then that's exactly what they are.

What matters is there are a number of first team possibles, basically those above.

Not saying anything regarding the backs because they simply have not had any chances so can't comment.

2 miles forward on TV, Wigan getting away with a lot but tbf you make your luck.

That only works if you get away with the same whilst on front foot ofcourse.

There’s little excuse for missing forward passed that are clear cut. Guess the officiating is still not up to standard throughout various competitions.

Anyway I really hope they can turn it around. With a fair amount of possession they can certainly get back into it.

Cheers

18 - 12

18-12 now. Try Phillips.

Hope they can get the win.

24 - 12

loose pass and wigan intercept and go 90 metres.

Twitter said we had a penalty for dissent. Must be a delay. That’s a shame. Still 20 left but need to score one back soon.

30 - 12, running away a bit now but no lack of effort.

Another long range run in for Wigan. 30-12 about 10 mins to go.

That’s a shame after being in there for 60 mins.

Do Wigan have a lot of older players in their team? Is anyone playing well for trinity.

Twitter got that wrong jake camplin scored

34 12 now heads have dropped in the game and 10 meters out trow interception and they go length and thats killed it

Way more already mentioned that



Yes they have all played well within there ability but most of our players are still Academy.

They're just all so much bigger than the majority of the Trinity guys. Looks like 13 big second rowers on the pitch for Wigan.

Well beaten by a much better Wigan team that has gone unbeaten all season. Yet I still enjoyed the game.

Its not about winning its about learning and I think our players will learn more.

Turning point was obviously that intercept on the Wigan like at 18-12. Shame that.

40-12 final score more or less sums it up. Think we lost the impetus at 18-12 with that interception.
Well played the lads for the effort though plenty of tackle practice that's for sure.

Tbh I thought the final score flattered Wigan, the try right on HT and the intercept were both key, especially the intercept which was against the run of play.
I thought the ref had a decent game and that our lads played as well as they could in that despite the score they kept their shape in D, which was generally solid, the effort was there from mins 1-80 and we kept going.
Overall tho, Wigan dominated position and possession from the moment they scored from their 1st set, which came from our mistake defending a set restart drop out from under posts. That, the try on HT, another on FT and the intercept made all the difference score-wise
Thanks for a good season boys and your efforts in an entertaining game today

Watched it earlier and can’t argue with the result, Wigan were the better side overall. The lads will have gained from the experience though and the club deserves some credit for being one of the very few teams to have taken the reserves league seriously this year. Most clubs have pretty much extracted the urine out of it this year, withdrawing from games, filling their teams with local amateurs and playing young scholarship lads before they are ready. It needs looking at for next season.

That’s there problem and possibly allowed us to test ourselves right to the last game this year. We have played a good mix of first teamers, real reserves and second and even first year players. Who’s going to benefit in the future, us or them?

Some real stand out young players for me who I knew little about but have real confidence that in an emergency they could step up.

Scriven (the Wigan commentary team loved him), he was everywhere, a real non stop action player, really liked him.

Camplin also looked useful, lots of enterprise.

Roberts a prop I think looks to have potential.

Of the more established youngsters Shaw and especially Windrow were the pick.

The two most experienced players on show led the line. Kershaw yer again ran his blood to water. Butler did well in attack but his defence was really good, put in a few crucial tackles to stop a truly runaway scoreline.

I firmly believe we missed Evans, at that level he has some real X-Factor but never mind.

Lots to be happy with.

Have Wigan cornered the market in oversized young props?

Not oversized but big and mobile. Brannan is 19, Harvey Hill, Max Wood and Junior Nsemba are all still academy age. Jack Bibby is 20. Only James McDonnell is in his early 20's (22) and he is heading to Leeds next year.

They may all still be Academy age but are they full time contracted players? I may be wrong but a fair few of ours were not contracted players. TBH I’m not sure how it works with these players such as Butterworth as to whether they get paid at all? Or how they train. Maybe Luppy can explain.

Wigans ability to retain these lads is a huge advantage which is fair enough.

Basically for our one Shaw or Windrow you look to have twice that. More power to your elbow, I wish all clubs did the same.