Wigan Warriors • Re: Wigan v Sts discussion - THIS THREAD ONLY PLEASE
Stu M wrote:
I just can’t fathom how it seems to be a given that the next time we play as long as Wigan play better it’s fine.
Who is to say we don’t improve our attack? Welsby and Lomax have been relatively quiet all season but what if one of them fires?
Yes Wigans pack may be better next time with returning players but ours could be too with Passi and Bell.
Bell has interchanged superbly all season with Knowles and given us another dimension.
I just feel there’s a distorted view of Wigan playing better next time and rolling us.
If they do I’ll come on here and hold my hands up.
I think it's a fair assumption that Wigan will be a lot, lot better next time out. Wigan made 14 errors in the first 50 minutes (penalties, errors and six agains; see the 'Saints (a) thread for reference), that's nearly one every two minutes with ball in play!
Furthermore, I think it's pretty unlikely we'll be playing half an hour with 12 men, next time out. If we do, we'll only have ourselves to blame.
And finally, sport tends to even itself out. Saints got the rub of the green with the Lees head contact being missed. Like him or loathe him, Rob Hicks has gone on record that that is the type of tackle that they're trying to get rid of. The next tackle Dupree gets sin binned. The video ref also recommends yellow for Byrne, but Kendall chose red. All the small moments went Saints way.
Despite all of the above, after 73 mins, Wigan were winning the game.
I can see why after the game Matt Peet was optimistic and confident for us going forward, he knows a lot more about RL than anyone on this board.
Statistics: Posted by LewCharnock — Mon Apr 01, 2024 7:08 pm