We did in the first half when they were pinned in their left corner and got penalised for it straight away. The amount of times you heard Child warn a Wigan player to get their hand off the ball but not give us a set restart was a joke compared to us who he seemed to give a set restart against whenever Hastings waved his arms up and down.

Guess we see different things.
Mental state, conditioning and muscle memory needs rewriting for most of these players after years of playing the Radford way.
Maybe tiredness and fatigue set in towards the end but our attitude never waned.

Hastings and Bateman were both playing the ref with their theatrics.

To be fair I thought we were slow getting into the game in the first 20 mins as opposed to Wigan who were quick out the blocks. I honestly thought other than a few errors our defence was good and we were patient and worked our way in to the game. For all everyone lauds Wigan and how well they've played so far and last night to think the game was in the balance until the last seconds just shows we are a much more together and structured side already in such a short time.

Interesting that even a lot of Wigan fans have said that they got the rub of the green and got a lot of decisions their way. Hopefully in time we will be afforded a more even spread but last night the same as against Wakefield I certainly didn't think we any worse on infringements than the opposition to warrant the differences in set restarts.
There were a couple of things that annoyed me in particular for almost identical infringements where Childs penalised us yet Wigan do the same and all we got was a shout of '6 Again'.

And not forgetting Powell as he must have puppet strings on his arms as every time Wigan are tackled and he's there at the ptb his arms are up and down like crazy pleading to the officials.

Thrilling end to end rugby loads of skill,a great advert for our game,Hope scotts injury isnt too bad,

Very happy with our start to the season, there is a noticeable uplift in intensity and fitness and we are more unpredictable. I never have an issue losing if it's been a tight game and we've given our all, much better than the 'hands on hips after a mistake' stuff we saw from 2018 onwards.

You impressed me last night. I expected a comfortable Wigan win, especially when Taylor came off.

McNamara really struggled I thought, Renolyds back next week should make a difference.

With the return of JR, neutral venue and a bit more motivation after the Clubb incident I can see you turning us over now.

From a neutral pov, first half I thought you guys did really well mixing the kicks up, limiting French and hardakers involvements on returns and tackle 1.

Good bit of game planning there.

Very professional joint statement from both clubs to address the Savelio/Clubb incident.

I've stayed quiet on the clubb event, but the fact he hasnt said anything and he has been suspended, speaks volumes.

I would rather him just apologies and take his punishment.

Definitely Dave, a weeks holiday in New Zealand, two weeks if he’s guilty.

A a Polynesian I just wonder what the Wigan Coach Lam thinks of the comment.
Think Clubb will be banned from the game

Big Chris is now our number one prop
After a slow start at the club he has worked hard with his fitness level and it shows.

He’s our only prop at the moment.

several of us did voice our concern that we were short of an experienced front row
Now three fairly long term injuries to front rows leaves us with no more wiggle room to cover another injury and a lightweight but mobile pack.
There is no way Cator,Savelio and Lane can maintain the form and effort they are putting in playing 80 min every week

I like what our new coach is doing, he’s evaluating our squad, don’t know what’s up with Tag & Brownie, or how long the prognosis is. These big guys could do with the scrums returning, a lot of them are on their knees after games.

We need to bring someone in unless we have an academy player ready to step up. Those 3 players can be used through the middle particularly Savelio but leaves us short in the back row.

Difficult though Marcus, as we’ve no quota spot, and any available in England are probably cup tied.

.... and a £2M+ debt carried over from last year won't help.

I think we all like what Hodgson is doing with the club.
The problem he has now is we are missing Taylor,Bowden, and Masi for a fairly long period.
Brown is fit so will have to come in next week but the point i was making was you cant expect Savelio,Cator and lane to continue playing 80 minutes at the energy level they are now playing without having Subs on the bench to interchange and give them a rest.
Mao coming back will help but we are really short of some size once Satae and Sao come off.
Just hope we can also get these two signed up for one or two seasons more

Have to wonder if Bienek would have impressed once given a run of games

He's played the last two for Cas off the bench, I think. Interesting to see if he plays tonight.

EDIT: No, he isn't in the XVII.

We have other options if necessary, like shifting Mahe to centre, and “you will like this” move Griff into the pack.

Fash has certainly improved and will never let us down. As Marcus intimated, have we another academy starlet who could make his debut?

We’ve gone in with a small squad, and BH has only recruited Reynolds & Mitch, but we’ve almost had the perfect start, another addition up front, would certainly bolster us, it was discussed a lot on here, Even BH said Remi Casty was considered, but I think they thought his age was against this.

Just hope Tag Josh & Massi get themselves back asap.

Well he’s got his old coach back to run the rule over him