Now you know the quality of commentary we have to point up with from ch9! 5 minutes on how fat the producer has got in the off season.

Bowen has been pathetic really. Not fit to lace Tomkins' boots.

What does Bowen add that Hampshire could not? Stealing a wage if you ask me that could have been best used elsewhere

Typical name signing that SL likes to do. Not really adding quality just makes people feel warm and fuzzy that SL has "stars" playing in it.

stupid mistakes. The world club challenge seriously needs moving to the last match of both seasons.

wigan's performance is a curious mix of some excellent stuff with a lot of stuff a school kid would be embarrassed about. never going to challenge a top nrl side without consistency

Tbh I'd bench Green and give Hampshire a go there.

Roosters hardly moved out of 3rd gear. If Wigan don't improve on this they will be well out of the top 4.

Bowen beaten in the air again.

If Wigan are looking for someone who is fat and can't catch high kicks I'm available for a fraction of his wage.

Agreed! This Wigan team is no where near the quality of last years so doesn't really give last years grand final winning team justice.

Bowen is absolutely terrible under pressure from the high ball. Should be getting thrashed with it every week in SL.

i knew there would be one

he dropped one don't go over the top.

agreed, also this roosters side will be better than last season.

Dropped one and didn't get off the ground for the other two others. I wouldn't mind but the Roosters only kicked 3.

so are you going to slate minichello who dropped just as much?

I think Wigan did okay actually. This Roosters side is very good and after 20 minutes I thought they were staring down the barrel of a massive score, so credit to them for digging deep and making a game of it. The Wigan side is very young and games like this are all a learning curve. I don't fancy them to do anything this year, but keep everyone together and in a couple of years time they will be the team to beat again.

Aussie commentators banging on about the English super league! Oi Remi Casty, the clues in the name, try European Super League?

Minichello was poor too. That doesn't stop Bowen from being a waste of money though.

i know you hull fans love rubbishing your new players after a couple of weeks but its Bowens 2nd proper game i will give him time and see how he goes first. One of the reasons we bought him was to mentor hampshire and Tierny.

Big gulf in class, bridged to a good extent by Herculean effort and ambition from Wigan. With that amount of lung-busting effort and throwing the ball around comes mistakes, nothing you can do about it. Great effort, never had a better than 10% chance in the first place - a lot of things have to go your way to win in a game like that. Heads never dropped.

Bowen was v. poor and looks like a waste of money so far.

He may turn out to be alright, but he's a very experienced player and needs to do better. You expect him to take a while to start getting involved in attacking plays and offering a threat, but being new to the side doesn't excuse basic errors at key times.

he was a 1 club man, its a new experience for him to come to a club and not be calling the shots. Long off season and he has put to much weight on he really needs to lose some of it to become as effective as he was last season. He dropped one ball for christ sake what basic errors? he tackled SBW on his on when he burst through don't see anybody mentioning that?
Some fans of other clubs love to exaggerate don't they jesus.

I probably am being a bit over critical, that one he dropped just stuck out like a sore thumb because it should have been simple and it came at a time when Wigan had just got themselves in the game and effectively ended their chances. The other two when Minichello out jumped him, whilst not errors as such, were really half hearted efforts.

I agree with you on that, that mistake with dudson's put an end to any chance of a comeback. And he was poor but not as bad as some fans are trying to make out, maybe they are just used to see tomkins rip them apart and bowen just isn't doing that.