I am also frustrated but I just can't accept that the performance on Friday was effortless. I think the effort was there but the application wasn't. I also don't agree with people who say Wigan's plight is a result of the cap. That is rubbish. Wigan have a squad to rival most teams in the league and is certainly at least as good a Hudds, Cas and Wakefield. For me the issue is tactics and coaching. I am fed up with the same players making the same mistakes week after week . I can accept any player making a mistake but not the same mistake week after week and season after season.

The total lack of variation in play is a real worry and the buck has to stop at the door of BN. On Friday when Luke Robinson was sin binned the team still ploughed up the middle with little effect. Why have two good wingers and hardly use them! I feel sorry for Ainscough because he didn't receive any decent running opportunties all night and then he comes under criticism from some people when he made a mistake at the end.

I also don't accept that the players don't care and that there is a problem throughout the club. There doesn't appear to be anything wrong with the Reserves who played well against Hudds and won easily.

I don't think Wigan are far away from being a decent team but I am very frustrated that the little things that will make a big difference and just not being put right. Brian, my patience is running out!

good post!

i think its a combination of everything, a team that is imo filled with a good few players that are average at best and a coach that is totally out of date!!

even if we had a decent side we'd still be way behind leeds/saints!

Maybe I was seeing things, but on Friday we looked to have dummy runners and created a few overlaps with players coming from deep. It's been coming on for the last few weeks IMO, maybe BN has finally woken up

On Friday when Wigan did spin it out wide with quick hands they scored two very good tries. So despite what is said about average players etc I strongly believe this team is fundamentally good enough to be up there, albeit not as good as Saints and Leeds but good enough to be beating most teams.

I have no doubt that things will improve as we approach the 'business end of the season' but as a season ticket holder I want to watch good rugby in March as well!

Good thread.

Bored is the best way to describe it.

No passion, no heart, no ideas.

Congratulations on the start of the season and I hope Huddersfield do well this season.

However you will get no credit for the fashion in which you won on Friday. Huddersfield played very poorly and it is a damning indictment of Wigan's play if we lost to a side I thought played very poorly, what does that make us?

I can give credit when it is deserved but the game on Friday was a very 'safe' game of rugby league played in poor conditions which meant the only way through was from individual errors or penalties and Wigan's ill discipline proved to be their downfall again which as a fan is the most frustrating aspect of all.

But well done in grinding out a victory and hope your team improve in their next game.

Absolute rubbish, at least the players you have named are English/British rather than the 2nd rate Aussies/Overseas players teams like Wigan insist on signing, hence restricting players like Tomkins,Ainscough and the rest.

Would not swap Hodgeson, Aspinwall or Robinson for any of your lot currently.

So you would rather have them then, Richards, Ainscough and Leuluai

You need to change your location.

I must admit, I feel exactly the same.