Re: Wigan squad for Challenge Cup Final
Posted: Sun May 29, 2022 9:21 am
Phew! Which pretty much sums up my feelings after yesterday.
Best moment the feeling of joy at about 2.20 when the voice-over shouter announced the officials with LIAM MOORE as the referee.
Worst moment - when Child came out to 'warm up' before the match.
Doh!
At least he was incompetent for both sides with his offside decisions being completely random. He tells the players where to stand to be 10 yards back and then stands in front of them so he can't see where they are. Byrne, until the last 5 minutes, spent the entire match offside.
He also got the Smithies high shot right. Penalty but nothing more although he had to be told by someone (Kendall?) that it was a foul.
We didn't turn up for 20 minutes then dominated (Smithies didn't get enough credit for Smith's try), then lost concentration, came out flying for the second half, lost concentration again and then Harry Smith was the first man to work out how to kick on ultra-short grass and Marshall did brilliantly to gather and not knock on.
It was the weirdest feeling at the end. I never though we'd win until we did.
Special thanks to Huddersfield for bombing 3 certain tries in the first half and to Lolohea for his kicking!
Thought Innes Senior was Huddersfield's best player and the Lance Todd should have gone to Bevan French.
Fair play to the Giants fans who stuck around to applaud their team at the end and really enjoyed their day. That excludes the three with weak bladders who managed to stand in front of me on the way to the bog at every crucial moment.
I wouldn't have complained if we'd lost but I'm delighted for everyone that we won.
Didn't care for the stadium. Grey, faceless and designed to extract the maximum amount of cash from anyone who ventured inside. Don't know what the crowd was but I'd be surprised if there were 40,000 and a lot of seats were freebies.
As for Mago? What was the point. Not seen until 54 minutes and did nothing.
Still, if we can win when not playing well, there's a lot more to come. Could really galvanise our season.
Best moment the feeling of joy at about 2.20 when the voice-over shouter announced the officials with LIAM MOORE as the referee.
Worst moment - when Child came out to 'warm up' before the match.
Doh!
At least he was incompetent for both sides with his offside decisions being completely random. He tells the players where to stand to be 10 yards back and then stands in front of them so he can't see where they are. Byrne, until the last 5 minutes, spent the entire match offside.
He also got the Smithies high shot right. Penalty but nothing more although he had to be told by someone (Kendall?) that it was a foul.
We didn't turn up for 20 minutes then dominated (Smithies didn't get enough credit for Smith's try), then lost concentration, came out flying for the second half, lost concentration again and then Harry Smith was the first man to work out how to kick on ultra-short grass and Marshall did brilliantly to gather and not knock on.
It was the weirdest feeling at the end. I never though we'd win until we did.
Special thanks to Huddersfield for bombing 3 certain tries in the first half and to Lolohea for his kicking!
Thought Innes Senior was Huddersfield's best player and the Lance Todd should have gone to Bevan French.
Fair play to the Giants fans who stuck around to applaud their team at the end and really enjoyed their day. That excludes the three with weak bladders who managed to stand in front of me on the way to the bog at every crucial moment.
I wouldn't have complained if we'd lost but I'm delighted for everyone that we won.
Didn't care for the stadium. Grey, faceless and designed to extract the maximum amount of cash from anyone who ventured inside. Don't know what the crowd was but I'd be surprised if there were 40,000 and a lot of seats were freebies.
As for Mago? What was the point. Not seen until 54 minutes and did nothing.
Still, if we can win when not playing well, there's a lot more to come. Could really galvanise our season.