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| Quote Monsieur Invisible="Monsieur Invisible"I can see where a lot of Wigan fans are coming from by quite rightly taking the positives out of the outstanding performance of that young side and hypothetically turning it into a win with the insertion of another three, four or five fit players – it seems like the logical thing to do, and is fair enough.
However, the fact remains that when Wigan and Warrington meet these days, one side hardly ever wins. Wigan usually reserve a very shoddy performance for their clashes against Warrington (much to the ire of you lot on here), but yesterday you produced a magnificent performance, which was still not quite enough.
Let’s make no bones about it, Wigan could win both trophies this season, beating Warrington en route, but just as plausibly, the two sides could meet in a play-off match or a final and if Wigan have a one-off bad day at the office, they will continue to lose to Warrington every time, fully-fit or not. That’s because Warrington – Dad’s Army or not – will always raise their game for Wigan, and for all his enthusiasm and great rugby, Wane is not as smart a coach as Smith.
I’m pleased that you’re all so positive about your prospects of beating Warrington should we meet later this year, but I’m sure you’ll understand that Warrington fans still feel incredibly confident about beating any Wigan side, every time we play you.
It was a great game last night. Let’s have it again later in the year.'"
You make some good points but i feel the need to defend Shaun Wane, i dont think Tony Smith is a better coach whatsoever, if he'd have been a bit smarter last night you could have put a boat load passed us but the fact remains he opted for a top heavy pack and bench to try and win the game up the middle but you have strick players all over th park and if you had been a bit smarter out wide you would have scored more tries fact is you didn't he's not as smart as you make out! Wane's policies and training methods this year and his sheer love and enthusiasm for the club are why we are top of the league and 4 points clear of you, granted he's and old fashioned taskmaster but when we went in at halftime 10-0 down and came back out to lead 12-10, who do you think orchestrated the tempo increase??? Ok we ran out of steam in the end, i can take that but it was down to circumstances which we could not avoid, no coach can prepare for that, well see soon enough anyway i just hope we have a full strength team come the business end and well run away with it.
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| A derby game will bring the best out of everyone, if you don't think those kids raised their game for this you'd be daft, they may be new but they understand what games like this mean to the fans.
We used to have your measure back in the day when your squad was probably the best in the world not just the UK.
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Different point, the player you missed most out of those injured for me would be SOL, i still think overall he's more important in the side than Tomkins, a complete Forward.
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| Quote Bostonslugholes="Bostonslugholes"You make some good points but i feel the need to defend Shaun Wane, i dont think Tony Smith is a better coach whatsoever,quote
I'm Wigan through and through but Tony Smith is a better coach than Shaun Wane. I think we would be absolute world-beaters with him at the helm
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| Quote Horatio Yed="Horatio Yed"A derby game will bring the best out of everyone, if you don't think those kids raised their game for this you'd be daft, they may be new but they understand what games like this mean to the fans.
We used to have your measure back in the day when your squad was probably the best in the world not just the UK.
Have to agree with Yed (and not just because he's a wire fan!)
Last nights game was one of the best I've seen in a long time, non stop for 80 mins and a great advert for the game.
The main thing I took from it was why is there this big thing for getting players from Oz with the talent all the English lads showed last night,
Powell, Crosby Tomkins (L) etc from you lot and Hill, Currie, Ratchford etc from us
These are the games Mc Banana should be sitting up and taking notice of not picking the "same old" in his sleep
Both sets of fans should be happy with performances last night and two teams that deserve a final!
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| Quote Hicks Is A God="Hicks Is A God"
But the best hooker on the pitch was Mickey Higham does Steve Mc pick him for the world cup because he performed superbly or do you want him pick Logan Tomkins just because his young and never looked out of place ?
You cant have it both ways
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| Quote Zeus The Saint="Zeus The Saint"
Didn't say that the whole England squad should come from the game last night, my point was that there are some superb English youngsters coming through that the national game should be doing something with, maybe that way less will think the only way to get into the England team is to play down under,
Too late for World Cup but from 2014 we should be looking at getting at these lads out to play a few international "friendlies"
Correct me if I'm wrong but was there not a mention of a First Team v The Knights, maybe worth a look at for a pre-season or a tri-series with Exiles?
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| Quote DannyT="DannyT"Usual fayre in a big game where we come up short. Matty Smith outstanding tonight but not good enough as a team to take the two points.'"
REALLY??
we have half a team against a full strength Wire I was expecting at 20 pont deficit
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| Boston, aren't you the one who didn't rate Myler?
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| Utterly amazing post to start this thread.
I'm sure it's already been said by everyone else on here, but the OP either knows nothing at all about Rugby League or has an agenda, or maybe a bit of both (perish the thought).
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| The OP is obviously ridiculous, an amazing effort from the young lads with so much experience on the sidelines. It is frustrating that we have lost a game that could've gone either way though (again). I mentioned during the game, and have noticed others saying it today, the most disappointing aspect for me is that we had George Williams sat on the bench for the full 80, surely that spot should've gone to either Lloyd, Greenwood or dare I say, Andy Powell?
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| Quote Horatio Yed="Horatio Yed"Boston, aren't you the one who didn't rate Myler?'"
That's correct! I think you forgot to add the point you was trying to make ??????? Please feel free add this on your reply
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