Re: Wakefield V Wigan : Mon Apr 17, 2017 8:01 pm  

Stayed up to watch the game this morning ... ended at almost 2 am and now I'm on the train at 545 heading to Sydney....


But I'm glad I did... it was s great game ... guts, spirit, skill, luck and the inevitable bits and bobs from the officials... every aspect of the game was so even... and it just took a smidgin of luck for Wigan to take the spoils. Great defensive performance ... but so was Wigans!

In all honesty a draw would have been a fair result as both sides deserved massive credit for that level of performance.

If I were to offer one observation it would be in the role of hooker ... Wood needs to be more aggressive we are still attacking a yard of so too deep ... from acting half back that is...and he never supports the player with the ball either actively looking for the offload or stopping our tackles player being pushed back!

He still plays like a scrum half rather than s hooker!.... but that's a minor gripe about a very entertaining game!

Re: Wakefield V Wigan : Mon Apr 17, 2017 8:07 pm  

wakeytrin wrote:

Why are you shouting?

sorry ,did,nt realise caps was on,

Re: Wakefield V Wigan : Mon Apr 17, 2017 8:13 pm  

Going to be tough to get anything from Warrington game on Saturday. Ashurst and Algood will be missing plus I suspect Hadley as well

Re: Wakefield V Wigan : Mon Apr 17, 2017 8:21 pm  

MashPotatoes wrote:

You really are silly.

He's not been the same since he lost his paper round job, I've told him it's only a job but he's so bitter now a days, anyway he'll not bother you no more tonight his uncle Alf's come home from't pub in a bad mood and taken his phone off him.

Re: Wakefield V Wigan : Mon Apr 17, 2017 8:22 pm  

The players and coaching staff were confident of top 6 and there are were a lot of talk following Widnes win that we could make top 6.

The mention of Grix in attack baffles me. He links up well and looks the most creative in the side at the moment with Finn.

Re: Wakefield V Wigan : Mon Apr 17, 2017 8:41 pm  

MashPotatoes wrote:

You really are silly.

Come Saturday Warrington could be behind us by 1 after being 7 adrift before Easter

Re: Wakefield V Wigan : Mon Apr 17, 2017 8:41 pm  

Eastern Wildcat wrote:

The players and coaching staff were confident of top 6 and there are were a lot of talk following Widnes win that we could make top 6.

The mention of Grix in attack baffles me. He links up well and looks the most creative in the side at the moment with Finn.

Top six is still achievable, we're not too far behind and if we can start to pick up wins again and other results go in our favour we could find ourselves in the top 6, were on track to finish on around 22-24 points after 23rds so I'm happy with where we are. I like Grix, but he does favour the right hand side and leaves the left a bit neglected

Re: Wakefield V Wigan : Mon Apr 17, 2017 10:09 pm  

Willzay wrote:

Come Saturday Warrington could be behind us by 1 after being 7 adrift before Easter

That's kinda what happens when you lose 3 games in 8 days

I think they call it......Mathematics ?


I'd prefer it if they'd space the same losses out across the season more evenly but, we'd just get some dingbat whinging about how inconsistent we are.
At least this way, assuming we go on and win a few on the bounce, we get a rest from the doom mongers for a week or two.

Re: Wakefield V Wigan : Mon Apr 17, 2017 10:21 pm  

Willzays aunt renee wrote:

He's not been the same since he lost his paper round job, I've told him it's only a job but he's so bitter now a days, anyway he'll not bother you no more tonight his uncle Alf's come home from't pub in a bad mood and taken his phone off him.

Now that made me chuckle.

[PopTart]

Re: Wakefield V Wigan : Mon Apr 17, 2017 11:01 pm  

Just watched it back.
We tackled Wigan out for 4 repeat sets at one stage. We were well capable of stopping them.
Unfortunately we made errors with ball in hand. On the whole it was us rather than the ref but the Huby knock on was a key one.
The ball was knocked down by Wigan anyway, it went backwards even if he did drop it and the whole Wigan line was a step in front of the line so should have been a penalty which would have brought it level and changed the focus of the play. The cross field camera angle clearly shows it.
It's a pity but it is what it is.