Fri 15th Apr : SL : St Helens v Wigan Warriors KO 15:00 SKY

[johnh1]

1 minute ago, Davo5 said:

That’s a blatant strip.

Davo. Don't you understand by now that Saints play by different rules?

[Davo5]

Paul Wellens,great player & im sure he’s a good coach but he’d send a glass eye to sleep.

[Futtocks]

15 minutes ago, Exiled Wiganer said:

I know it’s the derby and who knows what can happen etc, but I am not sure anyone doubts how this is going to play out. With a consolation try at the end, we will lose by around 14 points. There is a gulf between the 2 sides in terms of ability to execute a game plan. I hope that we don’t completely collapse, but that is always a possibility. 

Looking to the years, ahead, we are pretty much all in on Havard, Byrne and Smithies becoming effective at this level. We also need to get a 9 that runs with the ball. It’s not the time to mention it, as Field has been and continues to be so good, but I would like to see 1 French, 6 Field, 7 Leuluai, 9 Cust. As we have zero running threat from acting half, defences can get set for the runners and drift across to make easy tackles out wide. 

I think we can be competitive against the other sides, but we could make more of the resources we have available to us. 

Any plans for the years ahead that include Leuluai are pretty questionable. He may have been a great servant to the game, but he can't have many seasons left in him.

[Scubby]

This is like 9s

[StandOffHalf]

Wigan need to keep spreading the ball. That's when they look the most threatening.

[weloveyouwakefield2]

Has Morgan knowles gone off?? They haven’t mentioned it on sky ?….

[Dunbar]

It will be tough for Wigan to get a win here but watching them this year is a completely different experience than the last few seasons.  They are at least trying to play rugby and unpick defences and not just play through processes.

[Dunbar]

How can that be a try when the last one wasn't?

[DavidM]

No no no that’s exactly the same . Shocking call , total inconsistency . No try for the same reason 

[bratman]

Just now, Dunbar said:

How can that be a try when the last one wasn't?

Yeah, very similar.

[Jughead]

You’ve been Kendall’d x2. 

 

[Davo5]

He dropped that 

[andyscoot]

I'd rather change the rules to requiring control with the hands, personally. As it stands that should be a try, as should Hurrels in the first half.

[hullste]

The difference between the 2 was that the Hurrell one the ball came away from his hand. Bachelors the bottom hand came away but there was no separation between the top hand and the ball

[Fevrover]

2 minutes ago, bratman said:

Yeah, very similar.

Yeah SIMILAR but not the same ,try all day long.

[dkw]

It's such a nonsense rule, made even  dafter by the fact to make a kick dead all you need to do is touch it with your foot over the line, don't even need to try and control it. 

[Exiled Wiganer]

3 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

Any plans for the years ahead that include Leuluai are pretty questionable. He may have been a great servant to the game, but he can't have many seasons left in him.

I was thinking we could see how it goes later this year. Looks like I was overly optimistic about the 14 point defeat today. There can be a tendency to look ahead to Monday’s game when a long way ahead, though, so they may stop playing when they get 20 odd ahead. 

[Scubby]

Big 15 minutes for Wigan here. They need to keep playing or this could get ugly.

[JohnM]

Going as I expected. Bateman's form continues to disappoint, sad to say. We just can't match Saints drive and aggression across the whole team 

[Jughead]

If Powell put as much energy into his game as he does trapping off, he might become better than average. 

[hullste]

Smithies sticking his head in the face every tackle

 

[Davo5]

Moore killing Wigan with cheap set restarts.

[andyscoot]

Going for the 2. Must be scared.

[dkw]

Powell needs to be careful confronting a ref like that.

[Tubby]

What’s with Smithies sticking his head in the attackers face in almost every tackle?