Team to face St Helens

[Caboosegg]

Smith = Rocky Hampshire mk2

Time to move on to the next messiah from the academy

Ha I've not seen anyone say anything other than Smith has lots of potential.

Hampshire apparently was a world beater before he'd played a game.

[josie andrews]

No way is that a sin bin for KPP

Even Sam Tomkins said the same!

Watch the tackle in real time, there is no way KPP can pull out.

I said the same, also they tried to say it was a shoulder charge from KPP! If that’s the case he would have had to be kneeling down to shoulder charge Coote!

[josie andrews]

Young prop Ollie Partington has been hailed as the leader of Wigan’s pack – by a player who knows a thing or two about front-row battles.

St Helens’ Alex Walmsley is widely regarded as one of the top England props. And ahead of the first derby of the year, he has hailed Partington’s mature and energetic displays at the coalface for the Warriors.

The 31-year-old said: “As a forward I look at the middle, and Oliver Partington is definitely leading their pack.

“He’s a young lad but he’s playing like a forward who is a lot older than he is - he’s an old head on his shoulders.

He’s the leader of their pack and to be honest I’ve been impressed with the way he’s been going.


“He’s a tough competitor, he epitomises a typical Wigan forward with his aggression and the way he carries the ball, and I’m sure he’ll look to lead the pack on Sunday

There are some good, homegrown Wigan forwards and it’s always a challenge down the middle.”

Wigan are without a win in four matches but Walmsley says St Helens – who haven’t played since a 6-2 loss to Warrington on June 17 – are not under-estimating their derby rivals.

“They’re not playing like they’d like to be playing but form goes out the window with these derbies,” he said.

They’re a very good side. These are the games which can turn a season, and I’m sure that’s the attitude Wigan will have.

“There’ll be a lot of emotion in their camp, if we don’t match their intensity we’ll be in for a tough game.”

https://www.wigantoday.net/sport/rugby- ... ce-3295548

[TravellingWarrior]

and therein lies one of our main problems, (no disrespect to Oli P in this regard)

but our pack leader should not be one of the young-uns!

[NICKYKISS]

Ollie P is all heart and effort and I rate him in his way but we can only have an Ollie P in the team on a regular basis if you have a couple of other props making good ground through the middle because he doesn’t. Unfortunately he doesn’t, Singleton doesn’t, Clubb doesn’t, Bullock refuses to (but could), Byrne doesn’t and Havard doesn’t always.

The front row is an absolute mess and has been for too long now.

[morley pie eater]

The worse part of that was the fact that saints weren’t even good, we gave them every point in that first half through errors or bad D. I’m not going to rant or we would be here all night. The folk that keep finding positives in such dire results though are getting me down, give it a rest please, the worlds not made out of unicorns and candy floss.

Brilliant and honest…… cant knock truth

At least we kept them to only one try in the second half

[morley pie eater]

The worse part of that was the fact that saints weren’t even good, we gave them every point in that first half through errors or bad D. I’m not going to rant or we would be here all night. The folk that keep finding positives in such dire results though are getting me down, give it a rest please, the worlds not made out of unicorns and candy floss.

Much better than a 24-0 default, and it could have been 24-14 if we'd taken all our pens under the sticks! The future is bright!

Up the optimists!

[moto748]

As I recall, at the time the ref was shouting "Milking!" at Marshall, Marshall was being man-handled by a Saints defender!

[jobo]

Smith = Rocky Hampshire mk2

Time to move on to the next messiah from the academy

Ha I've not seen anyone say anything other than Smith has lots of potential.

Hampshire apparently was a world beater before he'd played a game.

He was a world beater at academy level and judging by the number of clubs that wanted him to sign for them, was expected to make it at the highest level. Just didn't work out for him.

[Firestarter]

Smith = Rocky Hampshire mk2

Time to move on to the next messiah from the academy

Ha I've not seen anyone say anything other than Smith has lots of potential.

Hampshire apparently was a world beater before he'd played a game.

Smith will be ok meds….. its tried and tested tommy thats letting us down imo