Agree completely..Its currently an expensive handicap on the the whole team.

Tonight you played against only 16 men.

As did you largely, Roberts and Mossop went off injured (the roberts injury before he got taken off having a reasonable contribution to 2 of your tries) Deacon played a token last few minutes.

Whatever the reason is it must be a bloody important one if the alternative is picking such an inexperienced and lightweight pack against one the size of Wires. He is clearly not carrying an injury as he gets to be 18th man every week. He is regularly in the 19 but never plays these days.



It's pure speculation but I think it is simply down to Madge's meritocracy. Mossop (for example) trains better all week, does what Madge wants all week. Feka doesn't because he physically can't (which to Madge is a black mark in itself) so Mossop is the automatic choice [iignoring the opposition[/i. If I am right I think Madge is cutting his nose off to spite his face because he must clearly see the need for more size and experience in the pack against a team like Wire and so despite not being perfect IMO he should pick Feka to do a job but simply will not consider it. I get the impression Madge wouldn't have picked Brett Kenny because he wandered around with his hands in his pockets and sometimes you just have to be a bit more flexible to pick the right side IMO.



Dave

The biggest error for me last night was the failure to bring Roberts off as soon as he was injured. The error lead to two Warrington tires, which I believe could and should have been avoided. As a side note, Roberts is obviously so much a confidence player that he becomes a pretty majoy weakness when he's not in great form; let's hope when he fully recovers from his injury he starts playing again as we get into the play offs.



I'd also have had Paleaaesina on the bench last night, might as well use him while we have him, and given the conditions, the game was always going to be won by the forwards last night.

Maybe MM saw the semi final from last year where Feka got totally exposed by Monaghan that he thought he couldn't risk it? I am not saying I agreee that Feka should or shouldn't of played but surely Maguire is aware more than ever at our need for some big props for next year.



Maybe we should be giving IL some stick for refussing to get us a prop last year even though everyone knew that was the area we were most in needs of improving and instead he plucked for Deacon.

i'm surprised (and glad) he wasn't picked last night, i know we go on about how we worked him out of the game with monas at the semi last year, but at the H&J this season, we couldn't stop him.

I hope not!

Only problem i have with the Feka situation is when Coley got his ban MM said this was Feka's chance to impress. And how can he impress if he does not play him i think we needed him last night but then again i am not the coach. We nearly lost Fielden and we lost Mossop i just feel having Feka as a backup prop would have helped last night.

If feka had played we'd have lost by a lot more than one try.

I must admit I was hugely suprised that Feka wasnt on the bench and in the end it made a difference. Allthough Wigans youngsters have been outstanding for large parts of the season you really do need an experienced Interchange bench for big matches like last night. Maguire got that one wrong imo but apart from that he has been outstanding for Wigan this year. A top class coach.

I dont think Feka would have scored the try Tuson did and I think Tuson would have missed out for Feka