Wigan Tatics : Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:35 am  

After watching your game on Friday and having watched us get hammered at Wigan a few weeks ago got to say wigan tactics at the ptb are a disgrace,that is not what rugby league is about tbh thought thaler was shocking against you guys and kept you firmly on the back foot in the 1st half and to keep penalising you for hand on the ball when wigan was at it every tackle was very poor

I wont be watching many games involving wigan with those tatics as it just infuriates me

Good luck rest of season

Re: Wigan Tatics : Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:45 am  

They push the lying on to the very limit everytime. Sometimes they are very good at it, but other times they become an absolute joke. It was a very infuriating game at times.

Re: Wigan Tatics : Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:46 am  

Great post, just another indication that the jealousy amongst other teams fans as Wigan are back and are title challengers.

Teams have been doing it for years, just that other teams have been better at slowing the PTB at it than others, what do you want to see? The days of the scooter hooker are long gone, thankfully.

Re: Wigan Tatics : Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:48 am  

personally, i think their tactics are spot on. they play to the limit, but thats a sign of a professional team, a better question might be why we aren't doing it?

[Sadfish]

Re: Wigan Tatics : Sat Apr 03, 2010 10:02 am  

They play to the rules, get over it.

Re: Wigan Tatics : Sat Apr 03, 2010 10:50 am  

Saint Simon wrote:

personally, i think their tactics are spot on. they play to the limit, but thats a sign of a professional team, a better question might be why we aren't doing it?

We tried it last season and kept getting dinged for penalties. I really don't think the current Saints team are capable of playing that way; it's just 'not us'. Wigan do it so well because they are allowed to do it. They wouldn't have gotten away with it as they did yesterday if Ganson had been reffing because he dinged them good style for it against Leeds at the outset of the match.

Sadly, slowing the PTB like that spoils the flow of a game but there seems to be no heart from the majority of refs to do anything about it. Either way, it wasn't what Wigan were doing which was the problem yesterday. It was what we were doing. Had we got our heads screwed on right for the match we would have won it. Alas. We left our heads in bed.

Re: Wigan Tatics : Sat Apr 03, 2010 11:02 am  

Is Wigans slowing gown of the play the ball by getting men on the tackle and peeling off one at a time any worse than Saints hand in at play the ball?
Something that happened a lot yesterday

Re: Wigan Tatics : Sat Apr 03, 2010 11:06 am  

The Brother wrote:

After watching your game on Friday and having watched us get hammered at Wigan a few weeks ago got to say wigan tactics at the ptb are a disgrace,that is not what rugby league is about tbh thought thaler was shocking against you guys and kept you firmly on the back foot in the 1st half and to keep penalising you for hand on the ball when wigan was at it every tackle was very poor

I wont be watching many games involving wigan with those tatics as it just infuriates me

Good luck rest of season

I think the clue to the sour grapes is in the 'getting hammered' comment
Get over yourself. Every team plays laying on tactics.
Remember The Storm v Leeds WCC? Both sides watching the ref until he told them to get up. And how many teams are employing that same tactic this season?
We are just happen to be better than most at controlling the potb area at the mo'.
Name me one team (including Saints) who dont try to slow it down to their advantage?

Re: Wigan Tatics : Sat Apr 03, 2010 11:11 am  

Amazing how suddenly everybody wants quick ptb's, except of course when their team's defending.

Re: Wigan Tatics : Sat Apr 03, 2010 11:13 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

We tried it last season and kept getting dinged for penalties. I really don't think the current Saints team are capable of playing that way; it's just 'not us'. Wigan do it so well because they are allowed to do it. They wouldn't have gotten away with it as they did yesterday if Ganson had been reffing because he dinged them good style for it against Leeds at the outset of the match.

Load of rubbish! You obviously didnt bother watching Boots N All this week when Paul Cullen had a stopwatch on the Wigan Leeds game..... Wigan took around 7 seconds to complete the tackle, Leeds took around 9 seconds.

Ganson was in charge of that match.

And he penalised Fielden for taking FIVE seconds !!