I never really understood why we signed Isa and still don't really. Poor ball-handling skills and a tendency to arrive a fraction too late to a tackle to make any difference. An adequate bench replacement at best, I'm afraid.

Persuade Iestyn Harris to come back and 'borrow' Paul Deacon for the day. Whatever preparation is being done in training - it isn't working.

<r><QUOTE author="Suzieb"><s>[quote="Suzieb"]</s>I cannot understand why Wigan resign these players Joel Tompkins, Lee Mossop .Sam now Lealui they just not done it since coming back bringing back injuries that cost us weeks on the touch line .signing a player who,s not played for 3 months and puttin...

Terrible time to play like we did early on in the season. Let's hope this was the worst and it gets better. (That's a hope not a belief, by the way.)

Bentham was inadequate - arguably we were worse.

<t>I'm not going to make any judgements on his temperament on tonight's showing but clearly he is nowhere near fit enough to be considered as a first-team player. We're playing with 16 1/4 men. Put him on the sidelines please until next season and play a young prop who is fit and understands the pla...

Beat me to it - it was an indescribably bad performance by a referee.

Making contact with the referee is always a ban but what it does show is the frustration that Hicks caused by his incompetence. Charnley gets battered (and was during the match) but always gets up and plays on - Hicks was the final straw. Too bad the RL won't do anything about him.

Was it something we said? Child, Hicks and now Bentham one after another!
Maybe we'll get a decent set of refs in the Super 8s and the semi-final, although somehow I doubt it.

<t>Hicks was everything I dreaded and worse. Never in position to see what was going on illegally before and during a tackle. <br/> I'm still not sure we played well enough to win but surely the last Leeds try was well offside. Unless Ferres and others have been training with Usain Bolt, they simply...