His Bobness wrote:Rovers made quite a lot of unforced errors and conceded 2 very soft and easily preventable tries.

That is disappointing because Wigan tonight were not nearly as fluent on attack as we have become accustomed to. Sam Tomkins was largely subdued his most noteworthy contributions were kicking for field position and really this game was winnable. I didn't expect it to be but it was.

Rovers mistakes were important but even so the matchwinner was Wigan's defence or at least Rovers inability to really test it.

Several players who shone last week found the Wigan defence too tough e.g. Vella, Green, Welham, Murrell.

We got next to nothing from our half backs and our kicking game was poor.

But for all that Rovers put a lot into the game, made Wigan work really hard and just needed a bit of guile that Michael Dobson would probably have given.

Wigan will probably improve as the season progresses and they need to. I now see how Hull pushed them close, Wigan are nowhere near as good as last year......yet.

Willie Mason had his best game since his adrenaline fuelled debut. He ran in very hard from the off but I think Morgan needs to think again. about how to utilise him. Running in full pelt at a 4 or 5 man brick wall, I expect Mason will be as good as anyone at this but it's still a brick wall.

But his try was a reminder of what he has to offer. You don't often see a player set up his own try but when Mason rampaged forward, got a penalty for preventing a quick play the ball and then was the first on hand to crash through at the next play the ball......quality.

So plenty of positives and at least we now have a run of winnable fixtures against bottom half teams.

hkrdavidhkr wrote:was a fairly good game, although a little dissapointed we lost .
we lost due to unforced errors and silly penalties again, but it was still a much improved performance on some of the earlier games.
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trouble amongst the wigan fans in the northstand....
[smoke billowing from the stand....fire or firecracker.... but 2/3 stewards went in to sort it.... other than that it was a very good turn out from wigan for a fri night fixture so far from home.

His Bobness wrote:
[ we now have a run of winnable fixtures against bottom half teams.]