Re: Today’s game v Wigan. : Sun Jun 18, 2023 3:36 pm  

How much are we missing drinkwater? Contrast his pass for Ashton’s winner in the last round…

Re: Today’s game v Wigan. : Sun Jun 18, 2023 3:39 pm  

Thewlis our best player today.
Harrison and Bullock put a stint in.
Actually felt for Williams he was playing on his own in the halves, was many times you could see the frustration from him.

Re: Today’s game v Wigan. : Sun Jun 18, 2023 3:42 pm  

Powell out for me, I've seen enough and heard enough now of how we'll 'learn from this' for at least the last six/seven weeks but nothings changed. What more does a senior SL coach need to 'learn'? I can see the weak points from here, it doesn't take a master tactician. They look so unfit and bereft of ideas. More fool those who hearken back to March and say we can still 'do it'. We got lucky for a few weeks while the big boys were warming up. Now everything is hanging on the playoffs and the GF, and looking at today's showing, we won't perform with anywhere enough intensity to get the job done.

Re: Today’s game v Wigan. : Sun Jun 18, 2023 3:43 pm  

karetaker wrote:

Thewlis our best player today.
Harrison and Bullock put a stint in.
Actually felt for Williams he was playing on his own in the halves, was many times you could see the frustration from him.

I don't get it, you can see Mata’utia isn't cutting it, so why not put Ratchford in the halves and shift the useless lump back to the centres. It couldn't have hurt our chances.

Re: Today’s game v Wigan. : Sun Jun 18, 2023 3:53 pm  

matt_wire wrote:

I don't get it, you can see Mata’utia isn't cutting it, so why not put Ratchford in the halves and shift the useless lump back to the centres. It couldn't have hurt our chances.

Because clearly the coach can not see that such is his love for all things Mata’utia.

Re: Today’s game v Wigan. : Sun Jun 18, 2023 3:54 pm  

Absolute embarrassment of a performance. We looked like we were new to the game, never mind played with each other before. Line speed is just not good enough, and has been for most of the season, and Powell should shove the panic button somewhere where our team cannot access it.

Re: Today’s game v Wigan. : Sun Jun 18, 2023 3:57 pm  

Abysmal from the kick off with 15 minutes of panic rugby to try & pull something out of the fire. Wigan ripping our defence to shreds & making big yards at will. Well done Wigan. Wire are the Great Pretenders.

I think we need to give more our young lads a chance at first team rugby. At least they can hold on to the ball & you can't fault their effort & enthusiasm.

Re: Today’s game v Wigan. : Sun Jun 18, 2023 4:00 pm  

Yeah you were poor today but you got done with that forward pass. They’ve been given all season, really don’t know what they see sometimes…

Re: Today’s game v Wigan. : Sun Jun 18, 2023 4:07 pm  

That must be some blackmail portfolio Mata'utia has on Powell.
In the pack, he's pedestrian
In the centres, he's useless.
In the halves......in the name of all that's holy, who the hell put him THERE.

OH, I KNOW.

Re: Today’s game v Wigan. : Sun Jun 18, 2023 4:13 pm  

It's mental. I've seen Ben Currie lift the cup from playing in the halves. But let's give 'Peanut' another week there after hardly setting the world alight last week.