who was it who failed to make touch twice ? was it briers i couldnt see was in south stand

hodgeson and monaghan, I think

I did notice that, but tended to put it down just to lack of fitness pre-season. However, as the game wore on, and we were missing more and more tackles, It's something that I did think about, just the fact that they wasn't really trying to bring the ball carrier down.

A lot of Wigan fans apparently are saying that we are in trouble this season if that is how we are going to play. If that's what Smith has said to the team, I suppose in a way that's a good sign because we know that they weren't playing to how they can play and at the start of the season, I'm sure we'll see an improvement tenfold against Hudds than what was on show last night.

i think, we're going to take some time to adjust to including hodgson in the play making aspect, going off last night he's going to have huge involvement rather than just chiming in, it surprised me last night just how much he did have his hands on the ball as opposed to briers and myler at times.

Compare that with wigan who had a familiar 6/7/9 that they're used to,


oh annoyingly good bye littler gap, hello the Liam Farrell gap.

Generally speaking i would agree with you but last night Bridge didnt seem to "be able to pass" to Joel on his outside. OK, it may be tactics, it may be poor decision, it may be any number oif things but with a bloke the size of Joel and with his ability there, I would have thought the ball would have gone that way more often than it did. The passing along the line was good, it just always seemed to stop when it reached Bridge.

There was a wierd wind that kept gusting around the ground last night. hodgesons kick looked like it was sailing into touch then took a different direction also high kicks from both sides did funny things. Chins up Wire very early days.

Our passing to the wingers were shocking last night. Everytime the ball went to King he couldn't take it on the fly he always had to stop to catch it and then run it in. Impressed by the quick passing ability that Hodgson has however. How good was Lima aswell? Was a machine.

Jeff Lima always impressed me at the Storm, he`s going to be scattering tacklers on a regular basis this season. Ryan Hoffman once he settles in will also take some stopping, Wigan have a good balance in their pack of pace, size, power and aggression.

For me Wigan served us a master class in defence and their newbies look like great additions. They are going to have a good year. However there was only 6 points in it in the end so they have to work on maintaining intensity when in front (hard in a friendly obviously).

I am not worried about us either. We looked a bit off but Smith as always will have used this match for analysis purposes - testing the young uns, stretching our legs. Bet we don't miss a kick to touch this season now eh? To those Wigan fans who were sat near me who said they were 'worried for us this season', get over yourself. If you honestly sat there last night and thought this was all Warrington had to give then that is laughable....

Dead right NCB this season is a marathon not a sprint, but you would have thought you were halfway through the season the way some of your fans near me in the south stand were talking. Nothing like fickle fans is there.

Short memories.

que senor cat?? i didnt understand that at all. care to explain for me please??

Lima looked ok but thought our pack fronted him up well.....

Were the Pie fans going for the record singing W***y Warrington..? They sang it every 5 minutes..!

Personally I don't like it, but I thought the "score in a kennel" to Monaghan was quite funny.

I was in south stand. Looked like first one was monas....not sure about the other tbh.

Still P155 Poor by any rugby players standard.

Those kicks should reach the top row of the terraces every time.

Deacon kicked one second half and made 0 yards but at least it went half way up the south stand.

He also kicked off straight into the South Stand.

Players not finding touch really annoys me....Even if we only make 10 yards its another 6 tackles just get the bloody thing in touch...!

First was Brett Hodgson, second was Michael Monaghan...

Being in the west stand that got really annoying. However i couldn't help but laugh at the fan who who brought a squeeky toy for everytime Monaghan touched the ball haha.

Those Ultra's are great aren't they..?...

You've never heard of the Littler Gap?

Not finding touch is annoying, but my bugbear is making 5-10 metres from a penalty into touch, especially if we're in our own half and it's a relieving pressure. We have the players to boost the kick 30-40 metres, but I don't see it all that often.

I have a union playing mate who loves league, but he gets enraged about how terrible league players are at kicking for touch from penalties; I agree with him.

Saints in particular have been woeful since Tommy Martyn retired.

Irrelevant ....

no mate....