I am super proud of the teams performance today!! Things didn't go our way but what a performance against alledgedly the best and biggest pack in the league!!

I could not fault one player, even Warrington played well but the difference was the man in the middle!!

And Mark O'Meley, what can I say?? They guy is simply awesome!! Morley was scared stiff of him!!

thought our lads played extremely well after a tough fixture on friday, no one can be faulted, scoreline flattered wire imo, just a shame we couldn't have had a full strength team out, i'm more than certain we would have turned them over, warrington are miles behind wigan, which shows how good wigan are this season

Proud of the boys, the score never reflected the game.

Yup, it was a really good performance especially in that first half.

Not deserving of a 19 point defeat.

I thought the guys backed up extremely well given the circumstances.

Fatigue was always going to tell in the end especially since they had a walk in the park against Salford on Friday as opposed our derby plus we were a bench rotation down from the start because of the baffling decision to put Lyne on the bench.
Add to that the fact we played the majority of the game with no halfbacks and I don't really think we got the rub of the green decision wise and we were always up against it.

IMO the team can be proud of the effort they put in today, especially Sam Moa who had a stormer.

Nice edit



Doesn't bode well for the rest of the teams if we are miles behind them.

Echo the OP's sentiments. Good effort from all the boys, especially the forwards. Great effort from them all.

Scoreline never reflected the game in the slightest, there was 6 points in it with 12 mins to go. Well done the lads, we had 6 1st teamers out to start the game, then with Long off we had to rely on the boys out there and they did they're up most to contain them and attack.

Wigan can fairly claim to have been the best team in SL so far this year: but they beat Warrinton by two points, the difference being a missed conversion. Hardly 'miles' behind.

it doesn't bode well, wigan are miles ahead of all the teams at the moment

as for the edit, it was to correct a spelling error, don't want to be ridiculed for making a simple error

All team played well but don't back up the ball carrier, so make a half break and no one there to carry it on.

Indeed, you are a good side.
I didn't think you were all that special today though, perhaps Briers was a little rusty after being out for awhile.
The forward battle was immense though, some great tackles.

Very very proud of the boys.

I expected us to get a hammering and actually we were definitely in the game - but one key thing made it just too hard.

They were as special as we allowed them to be.

Here we go. It was all Ganson's fault. The decision to penalise Hull for dragging the man into touch came with about 12 minutes to go when we had failed to score a single point in the second half. Washbrooks pass to Manu for Hull's second try was a mile forward. The effort was superb today - lets not pretend that Ganson cost us the game or that with a full strength team out we would have won.

Wire always has the upper hand and were faster and had more craft. What Hull needed was a speedster on the bench who may have offered something different when we were 6 points down....oh hang a minute.

Seriously was the Ref worth 19 Points?

Indeed, I thought they're attack was largely shut down today. Their pace in the outside backs only really came into play late on when our boys were out on their feet.

I do think we were our own worst enemies again though, coughing up ball in our half and therefore having to do that much more defending.

Perhaps he means the fact we had no recognised halfbacks for the majority of the game?

Disagree with this, we had momentum in the game more then once, but had nobody to general the game and convert it into points.

The only thing I agree with is that Ganson didn't cost us the game.

It was an even game for around 65mins IMO. The fact we had no halfbacks for the majority of the game and the fatigue factor of backing up from the derby cost us the game IMO.
Also Reece Lyne would not have been the answer.

The referee gave a penalty on our own line when we were in possession (instead of penalising Wire for messing about on the player) followed up two tackles later with another penalty for interference (the only penalty all match that I can recall for that offence) - that handed Warrington a try on a plate to bring the scores level. There were other incidents but that one just seemed phoney to me and it was a turning point. I laughed at the end when the Warrington crowd were counting down to the hooter - six of those seconds they were laying on a tackled player - I thought they were feeling sorry for us and trying to let Ganson know he should be doing something about it.

You pay good money to watch a clash between two good teams and he can't help but take centre stage. Neither team needed a piggy-back.

I agree with that and thought that although wire are a great team Ganson let them get away with murder. we did have momentum and had we had a leader we could have capitalised on it.

I agree he would have been eaten alive by wire.

At last someone who watches the game with eyes wide open.

Ganson missed several forward passes both ways.

Gansons penalty against Yeaman was correct. The rules changed this season so that dragging a player into touch is not allowed. That we have been pinged for this already this season indicated to me that either the coach has not reiterrated this rule in training or that Yeaman is too think to remember what he is told.

A bigger crime on that phase of play was once the penalty had been given there were serveral players (including last years captain) with head down walking with there back to the ball. Understandably the player with the ball takes a quick tap and scoots past last years captain.

We never looked like scoring in the second half.

We must have had the slowest back division in SL history today.

The board have just given a 2 year extention to a clueless coach

We continue to play the likes of Yeaman (no pace, can't pass, no step, all he offers is good defence), Radford (plod plod) Dowes (see Radford). Whilst having no real attacking game plan.

Then you get fans applauding and a coach saying "the lads gave 100% effort and commitment". Well thats the minimum at this level. What I'd like see, MR AGAR, is some tactics and attacking flair.

Looks like another 2 trophyless seasons under someone who is clearly out of their depth.

Do you think that might have something to do with the fact that we had no recognised halfbacks for the entire first half? We already established last year that Berro and Washbrook do not make a good halfback combo but in Agar's defence I didn't see a lot of other options out there.

I also thought that Hall's try showed a fair amount of attacking flair.