Re: Men against boys : Sat Jun 18, 2011 5:47 pm
Like everone else I felt down after last nights result, we seemed to be completely outplayed but haveing watched the game back on Sky+ the game did seem to turn on a couple of incidents.The early game was a stalemate, but we mad a hash of handling three kicks which led to tries, then haveing got behind bu twenty points we had to push the passes alot and against a very good Wigan defence that led to too many dropped balls.
Wigan are well drilled and very good defensively they've got the holding in a tackle off to a fine art and we very rarely got a quick play the ball to get a roll on.
They do seem to fall off their game in the second half, if we hadn't let them get such a big lead they would have been there for the taking .
On a different day and without the disruption to the threequarter line it may have been different.
One thing, next year they won't have McGuire and thats going to be pretty big shoes to fill.