GAME ON : Wigan Warriors v Castleford Tigers - 20:00:00

GENERAL CHAT ABOUT THE GAME, BUILD UP, THE ACTION AS IT HAPPENS AND AFTERMATH BELOW.

Wigan 22 Tigers 28
Att 13985
MoM Ben Roberts

That Wigan back line will be torn a new one.

Sadly I expect the same.

Cas bench is very strong as well.

FFS get rid of Stuart Cummings. Eddie actually managed to correctly call a knock on that Cummings got wrong and stuck to even when it was pointed out to him.

I take it you are talking about the one early on where he rolled over the ball? I have just managed to get up off the floor i laughed so hard!

Waste of space.

Serious question, have they got rid of the flop rule?

Wigan only have Williams in attack and Cas have done a really good job on him.

Can't understand why Cas made that interchange with Chase on, Roberts to FB, Hardaker to wing, Miniken to centre. Should've either made a straight swap or leave Chase unused.

Escare has been great going forward, and as bad in defence.

Wigan have been let down by some really poor individual performances.

It's something we've done for 3 games in a row now. Doesn't seem to have done us any harm - just think Powell likes to throw Chase at a tired defence.

We look like a tired team at the minute.

Not too bothered though. Cas were only 2 scores better than us - one try awful tackling, one intercept. Their tactics of drilling the kick into touch every set was baffling.

I can understand Chase at a tired defence part but I wouldn't moved several players around to accommodate him the way this particular match was going. You were comfortable beforehand and I think it left you a little disjointed. You've got the best defensive FB in the league and you chuck him on a wing Wigan weren't attacking??? Didn't cost you in the end but could've done had Joel Tomkins not continued to show he's a shadow of his pre RU self and gift Eden a try instead of setting up a tense last 2/3 minutes.

Baffling but worked. 2 scores better I will take all day rather than being 2 scores worse off.

"Game management" except it was actually giving a beaten team more time to get their breath back. Turn them round or force the repeat sets surely?

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I expected a far heavier defeat tonight so am relatively content. Listening to others talk about a significant win and toughest game so far against a team missing 60% of its starting 13 gives me confidence for the season ahead (he says hoping some of those players might return sometime soon).

Hicks tried his best for Wigan, he might as well have been wearing a Wigan shirt!

What Wane should be disappointed in with that Eden intercept is only 2 players bothered to even try and chase him down. That was just lazy.

Can only play what's in front of you. Cas beat you with half their team missing in the 8's last year - all swings and roundabout isn't it.

No. Only Wigan have injuries.....ever.

2 tries. Obviously.

Really? Thought he actually kept himself low key tonight. Plenty of games where the ref looks like he's favouring a team. This wasn't one of them.

Good win for us. As much as Wigan's first-choice backs were absent, their forwards were out fought and out muscled (bar Tautai).
Whist Williams is clearly talented, Leuluai was extremely poor. He was simply a passenger. At least Smith gave them some organisation and a decent kicking game.
Although Tautai was good, the likes of Hardaker, Gale, Robets, McShane and Moors were head and shoulders above their Wigan counterparts.
However, prizes are not given out in April. Wigan will be challenging towards the end of the year and beating them in big games is a different proposition.

I agree. Aside from the first 20 I didn't really notice him - thought he might have needed a new pea for his whistle by half time the way it was going.

Yes,but you would have to score 3 times to win. So 3 scores the difference.

I assume you were one of the supporters performing the Wigan Walk. Castleford scored again when you had already left the ground to beat the traffic.
Two tries, even if both were converted, would have made the score 22-27.