Anybody want to offer some praise to this Wigan team and SW?

[DaveO]

Having just watched the Wigan TV interview with Wane, fair do's. He is far more realistic.

[josie andrews]

Just watched the interviews & then the 2minute highlights! Don’t need to watch the rest of the game I recorded, showed everything worth watching ????????????

[moto748]

It was no thriller, in truth, but at the end of the day we restricted Leeds to 8 points on their own mud-heap, and got the win. So I'll settle for that.

[old hooker]

Not the best game ive seen but we hung in there and won.Sam, Isa, Bateman were outstanding with Faz and Tommy always dangerous.Sadly our halves were shcking again, I do believe if we had had Myler and Moon instead of Williams and Powell we would have won in a canter.

[Caboosegg]

Comments from both coaches courtesy of the BBC:

Leeds coach Brian McDermott told BBC Radio Leeds: "It was an error-ridden game and I didn't think there was much from both teams in attack.

"I thought we were great defensively for the majority of the game but we went 8-0 up and started playing crazy, started defending differently and we started to back off, allowing Wigan to go 70 metres per set.

"I'm really disappointed we lost but our task, next time we're in that situation, is to be better managing a tight game."

Wigan coach Shaun Wane told BBC Radio Manchester: "This team will never give up, they will always keep fighting and they know how to win big games.

"This is a touch place to come and we've not got a great record here but to turn up and play the way we did was an outstanding effort.

"I thought there were a few good performances but Sam Tomkins was outstanding. I'm happy with the way we ground out the win."

Mr Wane seems to be under the impression we played well. Mr McDermott seems to agree with the vast majority of opinions I have seen in places like Rlfans and the A&L facebook site.

DaveO Mcdermott didnt say that in the after match. Hewas his usual self

He said - wigan where one dimensional. Leeds lost because at 8-0 up the stuck their heads up there backside and that it was a boring game of rugby to watch. And then that the streaker was the most entertaining part.

He is a arrogant sod and yeh the game was great but he just cant give credit to other top 4 teams.

[Exiled Wiganer]

I enjoyed it. There was some great defence. Which isn’t flashy but made it tense. The way we built momentum and speed as the second half wore on was superb.
We went to Leeds and won, and we haven’t done that for a very long time. Looked like we came through unscathed, and have already shown we can score brilliant tries when it clicks, so normal service will be resumed on that front pretty soon.
I see very little for doom and gloom about. Sometimes games are attritional - it was far higher standard of play than the Widnes - Hull game.

[ian.birchall]

very honest cp and i was gonna put a similar thread having watched it after my 2-10 shift...... i spent 65 mins slagging us off to the missus

Good job she stopped listening to anything you told her years ago then Firestarter. ????

[ian.birchall]

The Leeds streaker was the most exciting bit of the evening until the last ten minutes!

For you perhaps Josie but speaking for myself I would have preferred a young woman. ????

[Firestarter]

very honest cp and i was gonna put a similar thread having watched it after my 2-10 shift...... i spent 65 mins slagging us off to the missus

Good job she stopped listening to anything you told her years ago then Firestarter. ????

i bore her too death with it...... she goes mad went i rant at the tv( especially hemmings)..... why do we look clueless in the first half most weeks??? It does my head in...... am i right in thinking that we have only scored tries in 1 first half in the last 4 games?

[Exiled Wiganer]

Oh, and in another reason to be cheerful, we lie second having been to Wire, Leeds and Saints (and Catalans) already, with only Cas and perhaps Hull FC being difficult away games to come before the split. We are far far ahead of where we were last year.