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Not bad for all pay on a cold day

Oh dear what a shame to be honest can't understand y Wigan got him he did naff all for fc

The word in the 10-5 (Ooh get me) was that Dobbo is recovering from the bug that Hall's just got rid of, Dobbo and Clinton were sat behind us in the second half, both looked OK.

Few points;
Saw Sam Tomkins, Asked for my lighter back, He's a nice lad actually, didn't have my lighter though.
It was good to see the defensive line moving up rather than stood square, waiting.
A few good set-plays appeared and nearly came off a few times.
Welham commented pre-kickoff about how much harder training was, "No disrespect to Morgs, but..." were his words.
Wigan were great at covering up the ball in the tackle, or we were poor at getting an arm free. We did seem to be trying more, though.
Mickey Paea doesn't take a backward step, great to watch him, I think he left everything on the field.
Clinton was a different player.
HKR's rent-a-cop stewards seemed to be after doing their usual "let's throw someone out".
Good turnout from the Wigan 'lot' for a friendly at the end of a frosty M62.

Good to be back, UTR.

Itsure was a strange one.

It'll be interesting to see if a decent coach will get the best out of Ethel.
For Rovers I thought Paea, Mika, Clinton, Taylor and Withers looked promising in the forwards. Webbo and Hall in the backs.
Fair play to the Wigan fans who turned out in better numbers for a friendly than teams such as Huddersfield are liable to bring for their league fixture.

How many minutes did Paea and Mika play?

At least it wasn't the usual "Weegan, Weegan,Weegan"

Wasn't he just

This was the main difference for me, line speed was a lot quicker, they held their postions well & didn't get sucked in from the wings, which they did a lot last season.
I also liked the fact that they were looking to offload in the tackle, it didn't always come off but at least the options were there.
I know it's early days, but things look promising.

Sam Tomkins tweeted that he went to a pub close to the ground yesterday. Can only be Crown?

Surprised Mika is getting some praise thought he seemed uninterested and looked overweight. Paea's 2nd stint was impressive as were Green and Clinton going forward.

Blake Green was the stand out purely for his kicking game which in the 1st half was superb. Webster looked like he had the beating of Gelling every time he had the ball too.

Thought the massive change of team was a weird decision by you guys though instead of making them gradually.

Please please please don't select Scott Murrell at scrum half ever again!!!!!

Aaaarghh! What was Josh Hodgson doing at loose forward!!!!!!!

I hope Sandy doesn't have any more mis-fit ideas!

Well that was a short honeymoon period!

I got chatting to a number of wigan supporters after the game about the surprising number of travelling pie-eaters. The consensus was, once they found out they would be housed in the west stand, as opposed to the golf stand or south stand terracing, it made the trip to Hull more appealing.

Extrapolate this mentality across 'most' SL clubs and Hudge's famous 10,000 might well be achievable lol!

Ano our group was thinking that Its like my god is Morgan back at the helm what is it with scotty at half back it's just bizarre dont get me wrong he tackled his heart out, and just proves then doesn't it have a decent place for the fans to come to and it cud happen, looking at the north stand nothing happening yet, them broken seats wasn't that caused by our last home game.

Paea did 2 stints of 15-20 mins. Mika about 30 mins from the start then never returned

i don't think EAST SARD will agree with you he seems to think away fans should be given the worst parts of the ground and is not bothered if they come or not

Does anyone know if there will there be any highlights of this match on the clubs website?

Come on Dayvoz, quote me on that

I thought you were just referring to him, seemed a sound policy.

Only if you subscribe to hkr.tv.

James Green looks like a terrific talent.

Mika and Mcdonnell looked like they did in the Nrl.

Not true, Wigan have posted a couple of highlights videos (by Eon media) on their board.

What did they look like in the NRL?

I thought he was talking about hullkr.tv.

Like they did against Wigan.

I like this, didn't they look a year older?

A year fatter maybe.



Mika can look very good with some big hits and good offloads but then he goes missing and can be skipped around in defence, McDonnell light weight but good in the open.

A fit Mickey Paea will take some stopping.