Matty Bowen : Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:17 pm  

Much better game today, skinned the Cas player for his try and made about three try saving tackles.

Thoughts on the try he let in?
Did the referee impede him? It looked that way from where we were stood.

: Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:19 pm  

Agree thought he was much more improved, he is great under the high ball. Would need to see the try he let in again to comment.

Have seen people still slating him on twitter, mostly people who I know didn't to to the game, just hope he doesn't read these and take it to heart.

Re: Matty Bowen : Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:27 pm  

I thought he moved too far over to the left which meant he was out of position when the grubber went through. Was an unlucky bounce and he may have been impeded, but had his initial positioning been better it wouldn't have mattered IMO. He was very good apart from that one mistake though.

Re: Matty Bowen : Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:48 pm  

Still not good enough and tbh he was very shaky under those high balls, to say apart from that he was very good just isn't true (imo that is)

: Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:55 pm  

Very shaky under the high balls? He was solid and didn't drop one. If Ryan Hampshire had played the way Bowen did today he would have a 3 page thread with praise.

Bowen cannot win at Wigan with some of our fans attitude towards him, it's embarrassing.

Re: : Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:15 pm  

FIOS wrote:

Very shaky under the high balls? He was solid and didn't drop one. If Ryan Hampshire had played the way Bowen did today he would have a 3 page thread with praise.

Bowen cannot win at Wigan with some of our fans attitude towards him, it's embarrassing.

Were where you stood?

Where i was the opinion on him was pretty damning all the way through the match

Re: Matty Bowen : Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:29 pm  

Give him a chance, this is the Pat Richards thing all over again, he did fine under the high ball today, keep going Matty.

Re: Matty Bowen : Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:33 pm  

rochdale warrior wrote:

Give him a chance, this is the Pat Richards thing all over again, he did fine under the high ball today, keep going Matty.

I'm going to give him a chance that's not an issue, i'd prefer to see Rocky in the position though as Bowen was always a temp solution

Re: Matty Bowen : Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:45 pm  

Bowen was impeded for their try from the grubber kick.
I was at the side of the sticks and it was very plain that he was in a good position to take the kick but a Cas player pulled him back by his shirt and pulled him to the ground.
The ref may not have seen it but the I G judge had an unobstructed view of it.
Thought Bowen did well. Took the high balls fine and beat Shenton on the outside very well for his try. A few try saving tackles too. Just a few games in for him, I think he'll go ok this season.

[Wigan6/Leeds1 Andy]

Re: Re: : Mon Mar 10, 2014 12:38 am  

Kaii wrote:

Where i was the opinion on him was pretty damning all the way through the match

That's because we have a large number of supporters who are quite frankly embarrassing.