Hull wanted it more and we were miles off it in attack, but not a bad lesson and wake up call a fortnight out from the challenge cup.
Two points dropped but perspective is needed. It always looked like a banana skin tonight and it seemed everything conspired against us with the bounce of the ball, referee calls and the conditions.
Firstly well done Hull. They defended great with a lot of spirit and desire.
As I said it was lined up for a banana skin tonight. Made worse by the heavens opening up after we were down 14-0
Was pleased we fought our way back into the game from and dominated the final 35 mins but just that last bit of execution was difficult.
We are so good in the grind this year and we were tonight.
Every side loses the odd game so I’m not losing sleep over it.
Takeaways going forward are -
1) I’m not bagging Shorrocks one bit, he’s a young forward playing half back and he’s done fine but obviously tonight was bad. He probably doesn’t want to play there either. Rocky to 6 next week and maybe Cust there the week after then eventually Field.
2) Think we saw tonight why Peet prefers Field at full back over french. Field is alot fitter and French looked very fatigued when we needed him to pop up with magic to get us over the line.
We’ll be fine once we have a half back at half and open up both sides of the field.
Glad someone on here isn’t. Jesus the last few post you’d of thought we’d of been on the loosing streak
WWste wrote:Hull were poor. We were are own worst enemy. Going to sound like a sore looser but the professional foul from Truman killed that game not the knock on
I wouldn’t say poor, they battled well in defence the second half, fair play to them. . The Truman foul was great from their perspective, the perfect professional foul but from our perspective you feel something like that should almost be awarded a penalty try, the sin binning doesn’t help a great deal with 50 seconds left and then his Oscar performance while walking off the pitch to give his team mates a breather.
Im not overly worried, we managed to turn the game around after a poor start and being second best for half an hour, we win that game 9 times out of 10 imo, just our attack just isn’t clicking which can be expected with a second rower in the halves.
WWste wrote:Glad someone on here isn’t. Jesus the last few post you’d of thought we’d of been on the loosing streak
Dreadful isn’t it.
2 tries each in terrible conditions with 7 first teamers missing (Hull missing just Hoy) after 6 of our best players played just 5 days ago, after winning 6 games in a row including Saints and Wire.
People need perspective.
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Wire_91 wrote:its your first final in about 8 years and now you ravin and rantin about it F**k off, and ill be going old trafford tomoz cheering on the saints and ill be writing on this forum givin you loads of shi* when your drying you eyes and the wire fan will be here handing out the tissues in the thousands, thats if you do take that many fans cause now it looks like its your fans who have jumped on the band wagon now your in a final, this time last year there was only 1000 people in the jjb and now its fillin up cause youve won the league hahaha proper true supporters you are
sergeant pepper wrote:Before we decide to call for the end of players Wigan careers and say Peet has been "out coached" - stop and realise that a fat perma-tanned g!mp in purple literally gave them 14 points and 40 mins of calls.
We'll bounce back (very rare we lose two on the bounce) so onto the next one and I'm sure karma will catch up with the ref.
Undoubtedly however (& I've said this since before the season started) we need to make a mid season signing. Freshen it up, change what teams can expect from us etc.
didnt see Thaler miss and tackles or drop any balls.....
The result won’t matter a jot to us in the long run but there is definitely concern building around a total lack of cutting edge close to the opposition try line. We’ll be so much more threatening from deep when Field is back but he’s not a guy who’ll pick a pass either and in the big games you need to build pressure and unlock a defence with a killer pass or a short kick. You get to Wembley or Old Trafford and it’s unlikely you go the length of the field for try’s.
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Pieman wrote:didnt see Thaler miss and tackles or drop any balls.....
What a weird post? How could he drop a ball? Tell you what he can and did do however - he can ignore two dropped balls from Hull, one of which lead directly up to their 1st try. He can also fabricate high shots and give them 2 points too.
Chicken and egg. We might have missed a few tackles, but also we shouldn't have been 10 out from our own line. We should have been 10 out from theirs with attacking ball. Big difference and all down to one see you next Tuesday in pink.
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2 tries each in terrible conditions with 7 first teamers missing (Hull missing just Hoy) after 6 of our best players played just 5 days ago, after winning 6 games in a row including Saints and Wire.
People need perspective.
We’re in a great position and a far better position than we could’ve dreamed of prior to that Leigh game. We’d have all bit your hand off to win every game up until tonight. Even tonight, I thought the effort and guts to keep piling in during that second half was is a great sign for us. The worry for me going in to the season was around the pack but that’s eased a little and my only concern about our chances is if we can open teams up in the big games to come, when they’re tense and in the balance.
NickyKiss wrote:The result won’t matter a jot to us in the long run but there is definitely concern building around a total lack of cutting edge close to the opposition try line. We’ll be so much more threatening from deep when Field is back but he’s not a guy who’ll pick a pass either and in the big games you need to build pressure and unlock a defence with a killer pass or a short kick. You get to Wembley or Old Trafford and it’s unlikely you go the length of the field for try’s.
I think Harry Smith lacks that bit of innovation and subtlety close to the line. In hindsight Peet may as well have put Hampshire on the bench considering Nsemba was only trusted to play a couple of minutes.
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