<t>The day after BN took charge and 2 hours after a pint at the "George" (which is an essential visit for all Rugby League fans), I went to Huddersfield to see Millward's no hopers stuff the Giants.<br/> My heart sang, and while recognising the huge amount of work to do, I could believe that Wigan c...

<t>According to IL at the Deanery open meeting, all the chairmen of the National Leagues 1 & 2 supported the licensing system, which I confess was a surprise to me. It must make it harder for them to reach the promised land of Super League. However, part of the license is to develop junior playe...

<t>34 penalties is one every 2.5 minutes. It's making the greatest game of all look almost as stop/start as the amateurs from Twickers. It's also making an enormous demand on players to keep a near 11 metre gap and we are getting more and more injuries.<br/> It doesn't seem to me that the new law pe...

<t>The League Express reported last week that we had 68 injured first team super league players, when at the same time last year it was 45, and that was before McIlorum was sidelined. 45 is too many, but why are we getting so many more?<br/> The only thing that seems different this season is that ef...

<t>For the last couple of seasons we always suffered from a split personality. Games were good or awful with very little in between, and we never really knew which team would turn up.<br/> This season though we seem to have ground out a few wins when not really playing well, but the Leeds game shows...

<t>Ganson nearly got the record for the number of penalties a couple of weeks ago. At Leeds however sanity returned and what we got was a decent game. You can accuse him of a lot of things, but not a cheat. He wasn't biased.<br/> I'm not sure about the forward pass that robbed Leeds, but then Colbon...

Do we know that Barrett won't play, or is this just paranoia?

<t>Whatever the JJB stadium is, it's the fans who give it soul, not the building. We're here for the next 50 years, so we have simply got to make it work. And it does work when we all sing and chant. I wonder if the Saints game hangover and excessive penalties are the problem, but we, the fans have ...

<t>It is 12 home games now then, and the Catalan result wasn't at Wigan. Mind you with the travelling support we get from Wigan it often feels like a home game wherever we are. Certainly the Harlequins opener was more Cherry and White than London, and even though we lost at Saints, the support was e...

<t>The thing is that the Wakey game wasn't dirty (play - not mud!), wasn't a needle match that needed a very firm hand, in fact not anything that warranted 32 penalties.<br/> The referees may be applying the letter of the law, but it isn't making the game more entertaining, safer, or even improving ...