Re: Thugby : Wed Oct 15, 2014 9:39 pm  

Maybe we should use this as a yard stick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj57GvEj2DI

Maybe we should use this as a yard stick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj57GvEj2DI

Re: Thugby : Thu Oct 16, 2014 6:46 am  

nohalfbacks wrote: Maybe we should use this as a yard stick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj57GvEj2DI They're coached to do it.

nohalfbacks wrote: Maybe we should use this as a yard stick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj57GvEj2DI They're coached to do it.

Re: Thugby : Thu Oct 16, 2014 8:08 am  

Aboveusonlypie wrote:

And where precisely would you have expected to see him? Newsnight? Never Mind the Buzzcocks? Down your local?

He's basically been on sky all week telling us it could be a big score and showing us his boring stats on how Wigan are better than saints.

He's gone AWOL now tho

Re: Thugby : Thu Oct 16, 2014 8:51 am  

St pete wrote:

He's basically been on sky all week telling us it could be a big score and showing us his boring stats on how Wigan are better than saints.

He's gone AWOL now tho

Well, the season is over so he's hardly likely to be on sky is he? Maybe he'll pop up on the darts coverage with an apology to you all. His job is to present stats. That's a part of sky's coverage.

Stats are something we all use to back up our arguments from time to time. Wigan scored most points and conceded the least over the season, so the stats are likely to show Wigan as being better than the rest. FWIW I think the stats are overdone as the only one that counts is the score at he end of the game.

I personally am pleased for James Roby who for me should have been MoS. a hooker who plays the full 80 minutes, not someone who comes on when the defence is tiring. I am also pleased for Nathan Brown who shut all the hypocrites up on the Saints board who said he was no use. Likewise all the Saints 'fans' who said Wello should have retired. I think you should start a thread saying sorry to these guys because they delivered success and a good number of 'fans' were badly wrong.

Re: Thugby : Thu Oct 16, 2014 12:22 pm  

St pete wrote:

He's basically been on sky all week telling us it could be a big score and showing us his boring stats on how Wigan are better than saints.

He's gone AWOL now tho

Rumour is that he has been phoning Sky since the big game, demanding to be allowed to bore people with statistics about how wonderful Stains are...

Re: Thugby : Thu Oct 16, 2014 3:13 pm  

Wigan Peer wrote:

Rumour is that he has been phoning Sky since the big game, demanding to be allowed to bore people with statistics about how wonderful Stains are...

We both know that will never happen. He's a goon until he dies and a very boring one at that.

Re: Thugby : Thu Oct 16, 2014 3:35 pm  

St pete wrote:

We both know that will never happen. He's a goon until he dies and a very boring one at that.

Yet you seem to be missing him

Re: Thugby : Fri Oct 17, 2014 3:29 am  

SuffolkCherryPie wrote:

I'm new to this forum and have been quite shocked at the perception of Wigan. Are we really a team of thugs? I know MM has done some pretty poor efforts and obviously Flower the other night, but I can't think of any other Thuggish acts this season. I've seen posts about our method of tackling, but if it's illegal, why would we be allowed to do it? Someone on the gloating thread said our style was boring. I've really enjoyed watching our attacking play this year, especially when you think we lost Sam this year. Most Tries, Most Points and Most Clean Breaks enough said. Most of you guys watch us every week, unlike me with only the televised games, hope you can enlighten me!

To be honest, the tags of thugs and boring are probably a bit harsh.

The boring is a reference to the structured game that Wigan play ........ some fans prefer a more fluid, off the cuff, improvised style, where the ball carrier takes a few more risks.

The thug tag is probably because of their physical and aggressive tackling style; and is pssibly also linked to Wigan having had some notorious "hard men" over the years (Goodway, Skerrett, Newton etc); it might even be older fans remembering when Shaun Wane was a player, and in an era when a lot of biff was accepted, he could dish it out with the best of them.

Re: Thugby : Fri Oct 17, 2014 11:09 pm  

nickcat0 wrote:

To be honest, the tags of thugs and boring are probably a bit harsh.

The boring is a reference to the structured game that Wigan play ........ some fans prefer a more fluid, off the cuff, improvised style, where the ball carrier takes a few more risks.

The thug tag is probably because of their physical and aggressive tackling style; and is pssibly also linked to Wigan having had some notorious "hard men" over the years (Goodway, Skerrett, Newton etc); it might even be older fans remembering when Shaun Wane was a player, and in an era when a lot of biff was accepted, he could dish it out with the best of them.

As could many others, and yet I don't see the multitude of threads slagging off Warrington (Boyd, Cullen, et al) or Widnes (Mills. Sorenson, Tamati, etc) or St. Helens (Nickle, Fogerty, etc).

People are all of a sudden fixated with Wigan about thuggery, just like they have forever been fixated with then through jealousy.

Re: Thugby : Sat Oct 18, 2014 6:36 am  

Jack Kerley wrote:

As could many others, and yet I don't see the multitude of threads slagging off Warrington (Boyd, Cullen, et al) or Widnes (Mills. Sorenson, Tamati, etc) or St. Helens (Nickle, Fogerty, etc).

People are all of a sudden fixated with Wigan about thuggery, just like they have forever been fixated with then through jealousy.

Took a cursory look at the stains board, i don't like to hang around there too long as it make me feel grubby, banned anyway.... But, i failed to notice a single thread about LH's cowardly attack to the jaw of "Mr Flower power", which came as no surprise whatsoever. I thought it might have deserved a thread, due to it being an action which merited a ban.