Yep that's how I see it, Brown promoted to the starting 13 in place of Sao, with Gardiner on the bench.

Big blow Sao missing especially with Fash out as well.

Don’t understand with already being a front rower down with Evans gone, being without Fash due to his ban and now bring without Sao why Gardiner is only 18th man. Seems to be a very lightweight bench with both Lane & Lovodua on it

1 prop on the bench is not ideal at all. Surely Lane can't be doing a spell at prop?

Sounds like a very poor start again and lost Houghton after just over a minute.

Sounds like errors a plenty by both sides. Need to smarten up, seems to be reminiscent of the poor performance at Huddersfield after the break period.

This commentator is awful, spend the entire half trying to figure what is actually going on

4-6 at half time. I'll take that

Yep Hunte is terrible and just talks in riddles. Hopefully TS can work some magic and get them sparked in to life for the 2nd half. Would say both sides have been off it but Wigan have had more the field position in our 20 so we are fortunate to still. D in the game let alone edging it at halftime.

We need a big improvement as can’t see Wigan being as bad in the 2nd half.

The other geezer is so slow, soon as he says something 3 tackles have passed.

Sounds like we have come out for the 2nd half no better than the 1st. The lack of size is hurting us as not making much ground and being driven back all the time by Wigan.

Ive give up listening rather listen to sky commentary. Awful from BBC.

Losing Houghton and Taylor won't help matters in that regard.

Bores me how many times we get bundled into touch.

Fuck sake. Thrown this away big time in the final 10.

Yep sounds like we’ve played dumb rugby and had far too much defensive work to do from our own doing.
Our end of sets are pretty poor.

Appreciate Smith sees the team the most, but Carlos just isn't captain material to me. Sin binned with 3 minutes left cost us the game in 80minutes. Now a man down in golden point

How many goes do Wigan get? I can’t take it.

Snatched from the jaws of victory.

Well a good effort I guess. Didn't expect a win before the game but in the end its 2 points lost in my opinion

Gutting way to lose. 88 min drop goal

Annoying way to lose but heyho.
Sounds like a potentially costly night besides the points though. Houghton failed HIA, Taylor off injured, Carlos possibly banned and Litten potential HIA failed.
Could have a threadbare team next week.

Truth be told people ask for size upfront but for me our backs just arent good enough at clearing our lines.

Litten seems to be making his errors on basic full back stuff. That said great effort considering down to 15 men. Puzzling decision to not have another prop play. Dont think Wigan were much better in the conditions but made more ground going forward.

Whilst its nice to see our goal line D is good we need to stop putting far too much preassure on ourselves. Some games we just seem to be in our own half.

I've said it before and I'll say it again regarding Litten, he is still very young and learning and will have some inconsistencies and errors in him.

in reality nothing to play for in terms of the play offs.
I would certainly recall Balmforth and give him a run of games till the season end.
resilience in spades but offered nothing in attack and it was Wigans errors with Smith once again missing conversions that kept us in the game.