Re: The Wigan Envy-O-Meter. : Fri Apr 17, 2015 9:38 am  

Offside Monkey wrote:

It was an old school centre on centre lession.

Indeed. The biggest difficulty Bridge had to face was choosing whether to stand Sarginson up or trample over the top of him.

I don't think Carney and Wells (whom I tend to like) once mentioned Sarginson's total failure in his defensive duties but instead spent ages both in commentary and at half time talking about how Burgess should have come in.

Re: The Wigan Envy-O-Meter. : Fri Apr 17, 2015 9:43 am  

There's been some absolutely god-awful defence on show this season. Thankfully we seem less afflicted by this disease than most. But it's difficult to see how long such can be sustained if the players know the other side are likely to cough up twice-fold for every mistake we drop.

It's precisely this problem which has repeatedly prevented us from chiselling out wins against Australia. Only this season it seems to have been exponentially exacerbated.

Re: The Wigan Envy-O-Meter. : Fri Apr 17, 2015 11:31 am  

SomersetSaint wrote:

He reminds me of a less talented version of Shaun Ainscough, both appear to be superstars in their own lunchtime, both have major flaws in their game. At 25, Ainscoughs career is a distant memory, and I can't see Burgess getting a game in the NRL before he returns to play for Leigh/Bradford/Whitehaven and also disappears into oblivion. The goons need to work on keeping their players expectations rooted in reality, because they appear to produce average players with vastly over inflated egos.

I've seen some tripe posted on hear over the years but that's up there with the best/worst. Joe Burgess is one of the most level headed / grounded young people you will ever meet.

Re: The Wigan Envy-O-Meter. : Fri Apr 17, 2015 11:39 am  

I really rate Burgess. I was surprised to see him getting pelters from some fans on Cherry and White, recently.

What ever did happen to Shaun Ainscough?

Re: The Wigan Envy-O-Meter. : Fri Apr 17, 2015 11:54 am  

Offside Monkey wrote:

I really rate Burgess. I was surprised to see him getting pelters from some fans on Cherry and White, recently.

What ever did happen to Shaun Ainscough?

Plays in the Championship for Whitehaven (and was obviously never anywhere near as good as Joe Burgess).

Re: The Wigan Envy-O-Meter. : Fri Apr 17, 2015 12:35 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

I've seen some tripe posted on hear over the years but that's up there with the best/worst. Joe Burgess is one of the most level headed / grounded young people you will ever meet.

Does Somersetsaints post even meet "Tripe" qualification. Angry, bitter and jealous sounds more like it.

Re: The Wigan Envy-O-Meter. : Fri Apr 17, 2015 3:54 pm  

Offside Monkey wrote:

I really rate Burgess. I was surprised to see him getting pelters from some fans on Cherry and White, recently.

What ever did happen to Shaun Ainscough?

He is a top talent and a loss to the game over here, not sure he's ready for the NRL yet but I guess we'll all find out soon enough. Some of the goon 'loyal 18' or whatever crap they call themselves have picked on some of his errors because he is leaving, they obviously choose to forget that he's a young lad still learning.

I liked the look of Ainscough, it was refreshing to see a winger with real pace who was happy to go on the outside occasionally but I guess he just didn't develop enough to iron out the flaws in his game, probably wasn't helped by Nobby much.

Re: The Wigan Envy-O-Meter. : Fri Apr 17, 2015 3:56 pm  

Ovavoo wrote:

Does Somersetsaints post even meet "Tripe" qualification. Angry, bitter and jealous sounds more like it.

Sounds like a great description of your own fans and coach after last seasons grand final. Still not over it yet either

Re: The Wigan Envy-O-Meter. : Mon Apr 27, 2015 8:58 pm  

http://www.wiganwarriors.com/WContent.a ... 374&type=1 That's a shame

http://www.wiganwarriors.com/WContent.a ... 374&type=1 That's a shame

Re: The Wigan Envy-O-Meter. : Mon Apr 27, 2015 9:03 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

http://www.wiganwarriors.com/WContent.aspx?id=10374&type=1
That's a shame

Complete joke! Just sipping at a nice cool cocktail actully laughing at reading that.