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We treated it as an exhibition and Wigan a business trip, Dufty to 6, Taylor-Wray at fullback would give us more attacking options, similar to Field and French. Hayes and Leyland not good enough. |
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We treated it as an exhibition and Wigan a business trip, Dufty to 6, Taylor-Wray at fullback would give us more attacking options, similar to Field and French. Hayes and Leyland not good enough. | |
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WireFanatic: That prick Wilkin absolutely loving this result. I wouldn't know I find the idea of watching Sky Sports punditry about as inviting as swimming with sharks. Volume off at half time, and tv turned over at full time. Rinse and repeat. |
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WireFanatic: That prick Wilkin absolutely loving this result. I wouldn't know I find the idea of watching Sky Sports punditry about as inviting as swimming with sharks. Volume off at half time, and tv turned over at full time. Rinse and repeat. | |
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Mark: We treated it as an exhibition and Wigan a business trip, Dufty to 6, Taylor-Wray at fullback would give us more attacking options, similar to Field and French. Hayes and Leyland not good enough. You've done well to pick Hayes out as one of your two players to criticise from that performance last night. |
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Mark: We treated it as an exhibition and Wigan a business trip, Dufty to 6, Taylor-Wray at fullback would give us more attacking options, similar to Field and French. Hayes and Leyland not good enough. You've done well to pick Hayes out as one of your two players to criticise from that performance last night. | |
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I've been watching the Wire since 1963 and in the big matches they rarely fail to disappoint. If you can't get yourself up for a match like tonight, then you never will. Lindop and Thewlis looked like rabbits caught in the headlights. Hopefully they will learn from the occasion. Why we constantly play one up football bemuses me. We are not big enough. We should be looking to offload to supporting players or throw the ball around playing to our strengths. And why oh why do the wingers keep jamming in when defending. They leave space which good teams like Wigan will exploit all the time. I'll get off my soapbox now and hope this was just a blip in our season. |
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I've been watching the Wire since 1963 and in the big matches they rarely fail to disappoint. If you can't get yourself up for a match like tonight, then you never will. Lindop and Thewlis looked like rabbits caught in the headlights. Hopefully they will learn from the occasion. Why we constantly play one up football bemuses me. We are not big enough. We should be looking to offload to supporting players or throw the ball around playing to our strengths. And why oh why do the wingers keep jamming in when defending. They leave space which good teams like Wigan will exploit all the time. I'll get off my soapbox now and hope this was just a blip in our season. | |
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| I thought we did ok in the first 15 minutes and made a couple of half breaks. The disallowed try probably should have stood. After that we were completely out-classed and our edge defence was really poor. I'm not sure in hindsight we should have played Leyland who is quite diminutive against this big Wigan side. I thought our pack was dominated overall. Only Harrison looked good when he came on but why did Sam leave it so late in the game to get him on the field? For me he should be starting prop over Yates. Overall very disappointing. It seemed Wigan got the bounce of the ball on a couple of their tries and everything seemed to go right for them. They are a champion team after all. Much to work on Sam.. |
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Not sure Leyland being diminutive is the issue, it was his technique. If a bigger guy is running at you, your task is to try to grab his knees/ankles and hope someone helps you out up top. What you don't do is jump into that big man's chest or you will end up in your looking daft.He wasn't the only one by the way, the number of times we actually got to French in particular and just got bumped off was ridiculous. If he does you with footwork or a bit of skill, fine, but he's not so strong that our players should be brushed off. |
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Not sure Leyland being diminutive is the issue, it was his technique. If a bigger guy is running at you, your task is to try to grab his knees/ankles and hope someone helps you out up top. What you don't do is jump into that big man's chest or you will end up in your looking daft.He wasn't the only one by the way, the number of times we actually got to French in particular and just got bumped off was ridiculous. If he does you with footwork or a bit of skill, fine, but he's not so strong that our players should be brushed off. | |
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I can only hope that, come September/October, we can look back at this debacle and laugh, and also rejoice that we learned from it. However, I won't hold my breath. I don't know how we can improve with that crop of players, many of whom are too small, too old or just not good enough to go toe to toe with the world champions. |
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I can only hope that, come September/October, we can look back at this debacle and laugh, and also rejoice that we learned from it. However, I won't hold my breath. I don't know how we can improve with that crop of players, many of whom are too small, too old or just not good enough to go toe to toe with the world champions. | |
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matt_wire: I can only hope that, come September/October, we can look back at this debacle and laugh, and also rejoice that we learned from it. However, I won't hold my breath. I don't know how we can improve with that crop of players, many of whom are too small, too old or just not good enough to go toe to toe with the world champions. I thought we were learning from the CC Final last year? Or the SL Semi at Hull KR? Some of our players have been learning for years - it's BS. The grim fact is Wigan have a far better squad, winning culture, recruit better and handle pressure games better. They were miles better than us on the day and thank goodness they took their foot off the gas. I just saw some posts on Warrington Facebook page saying "Well done Wire" - and meaning it. Sums us up. Be interesting to see how we respond against Wakefield. |
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matt_wire: I can only hope that, come September/October, we can look back at this debacle and laugh, and also rejoice that we learned from it. However, I won't hold my breath. I don't know how we can improve with that crop of players, many of whom are too small, too old or just not good enough to go toe to toe with the world champions. I thought we were learning from the CC Final last year? Or the SL Semi at Hull KR? Some of our players have been learning for years - it's BS. The grim fact is Wigan have a far better squad, winning culture, recruit better and handle pressure games better. They were miles better than us on the day and thank goodness they took their foot off the gas. I just saw some posts on Warrington Facebook page saying "Well done Wire" - and meaning it. Sums us up. Be interesting to see how we respond against Wakefield. | |
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Wires71: matt_wire: I can only hope that, come September/October, we can look back at this debacle and laugh, and also rejoice that we learned from it. However, I won't hold my breath. I don't know how we can improve with that crop of players, many of whom are too small, too old or just not good enough to go toe to toe with the world champions.
I thought we were learning from the CC Final last year? Or the SL Semi at Hull KR? Some of our players have been learning for years - it's BS. The grim fact is Wigan have a far better squad, winning culture, recruit better and handle pressure games better. They were miles better than us on the day and thank goodness they took their foot off the gas. I just saw some posts on Warrington Facebook page saying "Well done Wire" - and meaning it. Sums us up. Be interesting to see how we respond against Wakefield. Facebook has been like that for years. They treat sport like having a day out at the zoo or fair or whatever. It doesn’t matter that a sporting contest is about winning. Imagine Usain Bolt doing 50 meters then walking the last 50 saying that was a nice day out lol |
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Wires71: matt_wire: I can only hope that, come September/October, we can look back at this debacle and laugh, and also rejoice that we learned from it. However, I won't hold my breath. I don't know how we can improve with that crop of players, many of whom are too small, too old or just not good enough to go toe to toe with the world champions.
I thought we were learning from the CC Final last year? Or the SL Semi at Hull KR? Some of our players have been learning for years - it's BS. The grim fact is Wigan have a far better squad, winning culture, recruit better and handle pressure games better. They were miles better than us on the day and thank goodness they took their foot off the gas. I just saw some posts on Warrington Facebook page saying "Well done Wire" - and meaning it. Sums us up. Be interesting to see how we respond against Wakefield. Facebook has been like that for years. They treat sport like having a day out at the zoo or fair or whatever. It doesn’t matter that a sporting contest is about winning. Imagine Usain Bolt doing 50 meters then walking the last 50 saying that was a nice day out lol | |
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Wires71: matt_wire: I can only hope that, come September/October, we can look back at this debacle and laugh, and also rejoice that we learned from it. However, I won't hold my breath. I don't know how we can improve with that crop of players, many of whom are too small, too old or just not good enough to go toe to toe with the world champions.
I thought we were learning from the CC Final last year? Or the SL Semi at Hull KR? Some of our players have been learning for years - it's BS. The grim fact is Wigan have a far better squad, winning culture, recruit better and handle pressure games better. They were miles better than us on the day and thank goodness they took their foot off the gas. I just saw some posts on Warrington Facebook page saying "Well done Wire" - and meaning it. Sums us up. Be interesting to see how we respond against Wakefield. Well, exactly, it's the same every year. Rinse and repeat. |
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Wires71: matt_wire: I can only hope that, come September/October, we can look back at this debacle and laugh, and also rejoice that we learned from it. However, I won't hold my breath. I don't know how we can improve with that crop of players, many of whom are too small, too old or just not good enough to go toe to toe with the world champions.
I thought we were learning from the CC Final last year? Or the SL Semi at Hull KR? Some of our players have been learning for years - it's BS. The grim fact is Wigan have a far better squad, winning culture, recruit better and handle pressure games better. They were miles better than us on the day and thank goodness they took their foot off the gas. I just saw some posts on Warrington Facebook page saying "Well done Wire" - and meaning it. Sums us up. Be interesting to see how we respond against Wakefield. Well, exactly, it's the same every year. Rinse and repeat. | |
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I thought after Leigh rinsed Catalans when we struggled to put them away, Wigan would be a very difficult fixture. However, that was just embarrassing as we looked to have thrown in the towel with our poor tackling effort. I did the same, and switched off after Wigan's 7th unanswered try. I cannot remember the last time I did that. |
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I thought after Leigh rinsed Catalans when we struggled to put them away, Wigan would be a very difficult fixture. However, that was just embarrassing as we looked to have thrown in the towel with our poor tackling effort. I did the same, and switched off after Wigan's 7th unanswered try. I cannot remember the last time I did that. | |
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