That comedy penalty under the sticks shouldn't be overlooked in the overall analysis, given for absolutely love all and gave Wigan a nice 6-point cushion.
Lessons we should learn:
- Kasiano is not a starting prop. If so many players have been banned or injured that Kasiano has to be a starting prop, we are in trouble.
- Matautia needs to re-learn his technique for standing up and playing the ball. Two unforced drops ffs.
- Only go wide off a decent play the ball. In the first half we were getting walloped, but then chucking it wide in our 20 made it worse. Trust in your go-forward and the chances will come. Even tonight they did: in the last 10 minutes Wigan's defensive line wilted quite rapidly but we didn't take advantage.
- If you've got forwards on the bench, use them. Not sure how many minutes Green played but it wasn't enough. Sure you protect a young lad but the players on the field were losing the battle, he needed to be on for longer.
I couldn't really work out our bench strategy tonight, none of it seemed to work. Did Thewlis get injured?