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cpwigan wrote:

TrueBlueWarrior wrote:

cpwigan wrote: We were playing v three 17-year-old kids and a team whose average age was 21. We had an opportunity to work (much needed) on our play with possession and blew it even before kick off. Who had easier opponents? bar Leeds.

...but we won! It seems this fact keeps slipping your mind!!

Some of us look at the bigger picture. Hull KR did nothing to prepare Wigan for facing Wire and beyond and still huge ? over possession. Save the points scored may later be an issue. In terms of resting / developing players, improving our play in possession, the games was nigh on useless.

cpwigan wrote:

cherry.pie wrote:You can't tell much from an Easter Monday game because they are, bar the occasional exception, utterly awful games that are usually only redeemed by ineptitude from both sides making it close. The sooner common sense prevails and they scrap them the better (or, more sensibly, just one round should be played over the Easter weekend on Friday, Saturday and Monday).

Anyway, nothing changed with our attack. It was still utterly terrible. Whether the players had it in them to give any more than what they did is a different matter. We've had some shocking Easter Monday performances even when we've been playing well (and we've still managed to win when playing poorly too).

Rovers didn't offer much. I don't think anyone expected them to. It was basically a case of waiting for our attack to actually get things right but it took longer than it should have.

O'Loughlin still looks to be the only player with creativity in the side. I was pleased that Smith took the line on more although there were still some poor last tackle options from him and he didn't exactly lead the way out there.

It seems like we'll be relying on our defence holding out and us possibly getting some tries from some individual brilliance on Friday.

How are 9, 7,6 and 1 going to develop understanding with nonsensical resting / dropping. As a coach it is a huge negative against Wane.

Whatever happened to John Bateman will be rested for his own good blah blah blah.

Wandering Warrior wrote:

TrueBlueWarrior wrote:

cpwigan wrote: We were playing v three 17-year-old kids and a team whose average age was 21. We had an opportunity to work (much needed) on our play with possession and blew it even before kick off. Who had easier opponents? bar Leeds.

...but we won!

Yes, despite the officials and a below key performance due to probable resting of players, fatigue and spirited oposition!!

platt-warrior wrote:Oh TBW and you were doing so well! And you go and spoil it :doz:

platt-warrior wrote:I also worry about Bateman,he gives his all in every match going in doing the hard

Work.SW,s statement last season re nursing him has gone out the window.I hope for his own sake he doesn't play on Friday.

Wire have a big pack.

TrueBlueWarrior wrote:

platt-warrior wrote:I also worry about Bateman,he gives his all in every match going in doing the hard

Work.SW,s statement last season re nursing him has gone out the window.I hope for his own sake he doesn't play on Friday.

Wire have a big pack.

Maybe SW knows that Joel, Faz, Lockers, Williams, Burke and Isa are all available.....maybe not!!

cpwigan wrote:

Mike wrote:Thought it was a pretty interesting selection today. Enough to get the win and expose a few more players to SL. At HT I thought we'd been dominant and that Hull were tiring badly. Then we conceded two tries through unnecessary errors. That made it a lot closer looking than it was. The only thing that annoyed me today was Joel carrying there ball in one hand after making a break and losing it. Stupid.

Well done Wane for utilising our squad at a difficult part of the season and doing so in a way that didn't cost us points unlike the other two teams in the top 3

It took 60 minutes to get the beating of

"We had three 17-year-old kids playing, our average age was 21"

Negligently using our squad is not what I want to see. Interestingly John Bateman flogged himself again yet recurring head knocks to a player playing week in week out is fine by fans and a coach who you all seem to forget said on his arrival, John Bateman will not play week in week out, he will regularly be rested. Whatever happened to that? Does a fullback, Sarge need a rest at this stage of the season or Sam Powell? How many minutes has Sam played in total? The reserve bench was a shocking selection.