cow yeds wrote:All getting carried away a little bit here. Warrington for the last 25 mins were bloody awful, if ever a team imploded it was them. They made us look good.
Yes and No. Wigan scoring points is not standard fare this season. Whatsmore, if you look at every player, IMO it was hard to find a bad one last night. Several had their best game. Gelling deserves special mention for not training all week and being close to not playing. Tierney IMO had his best game for Wigan. Shorocks had a fine game.
If you look at the game. It was strange. It was hard to imagine Wigan playing any better. We monopolised possession. Tired Wire out and deserved to be lading at HT. The scary aspect was the purple patch Wire hit might have destroyed us going into HT. Scoring on the stroke of HT made going in at the interval very different. IMO, both teams played well in the first half and the referee gave a GF effort in the first half.
The second half was more mistake ridden from the kick off BUT Wire came out far better and bar maybe 1 and that was 50/50; every penalty was deserved. I wish Wane and Sam T would stop complaining. Sam was lucky not to spend 10 in the bin. The first 20 was Wures best and most dominant spell of the game and we were on the back foot. Benny fully deserved a red and he seriously need to look at himself for such a cheap shot. Wire scored a flurry as they can do but Curries going off seemed to spell the end for Wire. Should we complain? Yes they had 2 or 3 missing but so did we. To come back from such a deficit with 12 men deserves credit. Even Wane YES :eusa13: deserves credit because the way Wigan attacked Evans was high quality coaching.
We could have easily lost the game. Wire bombed several good chance (some stopped by fantastic last ditch defence). However, we scored points, we opened a team up and as the match progressed we got stronger and stronger 1 man down whereas they go weaker. Wire may even overdo the scooting albeit Clark is great but they need to mix it more. To me Wire seem to get 'tight' and lose control if games are tight. The confidence of Wire must be shot now.
So yes Wire could have win but they did not and as far as I am concerned that was a great effort that stands the test of time. Far better than anything this season for sure. After last night, I could see Wigan and Saints being in the GF.
