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Whelley Warrior wrote:

Southern Softy wrote:For once I'm having some trouble understanding what's been posted on here.
I'm no great fan of Hampshire but he saved two certain tries in the first 20 minutes and performed perfectly reasonably - goal-kicking was very good as well. Matty Snith was ineffective for one obvious reason. He had to spend most of the match filling in for one of the worst displays I've ever seen in a Wigan shirt. That was Gelling who is still patently unfit (and what the hell are the backroom staff doing sending him out in that condition?) and hardly made a pretence of a tackle all night. He made one try with a sublime offload and cost us 3 tries by being out of position and missing tackles. Charnley had to tackle everything anywhere near him to cover and it unbalanced the whole team. Hull took no time at all to realise what was lacking and attacked that side all night.
The forwards (bar Joel who looked off,the pace) were generally excellent. Flower - another terrific try and hard work - Mossop - made yards more than he did against Catalans - Clubb - effective and hard to stop.
Again we suffered when MM was spelled and surely the experiment with Powell will stop for a while when he gets suspended for his grab at Lineham's face. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say it was a grab rather than deliberate but it was ugly. And let's hope Tautai gets suspended so we don't have to suffer him on the field again this season.
The large nucleus of what could be an outstanding team must despair at how the others cost the team dearly when they perpetually mess up. Lucky we have the amazing Bateman to stand out week after week.

And as for Bentham as a Referee - it's a toss-up where he's more dangerous. On the field or in the Video booth? Please can't the club request that he be stood down from our matches for the remainder of the season.

How can any supporter hope that one of our players gets suspended irrespective of what is only their own personal opinion of any particular player.

Judging by other opinions on her about nearly every player in the squad, we would never have a team!

TrueBlueWarrior wrote:I thought Mossop played well!!

Wandering Warrior wrote:Despite a player's inadequacies, I too agree it's a bit illogical to wish suspension on one of your own!

No straw damn us wrote:I don't really understand the criticism of Joel Tomkins. He made more tackles than any other Wigan player last night and missed just two. Gelling and Smith were more culpable missing six each. Then there was Crosbys poor tackles that led to the late Hull tries and his subsequent "hook" from the pitch. I thought Hampshire went well saving two certain tries and also Mossop probably had his best game since returning from Australia.

Southern Softy wrote:

Whelley Warrior wrote:

Southern Softy wrote:For once I'm having some trouble understanding what's been posted on here.
I'm no great fan of Hampshire but he saved two certain tries in the first 20 minutes and performed perfectly reasonably - goal-kicking was very good as well. Matty Snith was ineffective for one obvious reason. He had to spend most of the match filling in for one of the worst displays I've ever seen in a Wigan shirt. That was Gelling who is still patently unfit (and what the hell are the backroom staff doing sending him out in that condition?) and hardly made a pretence of a tackle all night. He made one try with a sublime offload and cost us 3 tries by being out of position and missing tackles. Charnley had to tackle everything anywhere near him to cover and it unbalanced the whole team. Hull took no time at all to realise what was lacking and attacked that side all night.
The forwards (bar Joel who looked off,the pace) were generally excellent. Flower - another terrific try and hard work - Mossop - made yards more than he did against Catalans - Clubb - effective and hard to stop.
Again we suffered when MM was spelled and surely the experiment with Powell will stop for a while when he gets suspended for his grab at Lineham's face. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say it was a grab rather than deliberate but it was ugly. And let's hope Tautai gets suspended so we don't have to suffer him on the field again this season.
The large nucleus of what could be an outstanding team must despair at how the others cost the team dearly when they perpetually mess up. Lucky we have the amazing Bateman to stand out week after week.

And as for Bentham as a Referee - it's a toss-up where he's more dangerous. On the field or in the Video booth? Please can't the club request that he be stood down from our matches for the remainder of the season.

How can any supporter hope that one of our players gets suspended irrespective of what is only their own personal opinion of any particular player.

Judging by other opinions on her about nearly every player in the squad, we would never have a team!

For two reasons. The first being that we have better players who make more yards and Tautai is a permanent liability with his propensity for risky offloads and giving away penalties.
The second because not only was his 'tackle' half-witted in terms of leaving us down to 12 men when we were under the cosh but it was unbelievably reckless and dangerous in its own right. If an oppo player had done it to a Wigan player we would be screaming (quite rightly) for a suspension. It's the kind of incident that we don't want to see anywhere on a pitch. Putting you hand between an opponent's legs and turning him over to land on his neck when unable to protect himself is a coward's tackle. I can think of players from other teams who might well do it but I didn't think we had any such players on our team.