Where is Mago..?

No idea what's going on with the ruck. 80 minutes and no 6 agains.

[quote="NickyKiss":23wbyib1]Thought it was an advert for how short and disjointed an English pre season is compared to the one in Australia. Both sides looked jiggered and a few weeks off being fit and ready for the start of a season. We've got lads who were playing internationals up until November and have been back training for about 4/5 weeks only. You compare that to some lads in Oz who get a couple of months to put their feet up and then about 4 months to work on their fitness. We'll be better for the slog and certainly don't have anything to panic about. Longer term though, the sport has to find a way to lengthen pre seasons and lessen the amount of games being played because I think we need better than that on a night like this, when eyes are on the sport.[/quote:23wbyib1] Poor excuse that.

Not the result I wanted, of course, but objectively I thought that was a fantastic advert for Rugby League. Hats off to everyone who worked to make the opening feel special, bringing in Michael Buffer was absolutely brilliant. I've heard some people moaning about the spectacle in the stands and on social media, I don't understand that negativity towards promoting the game. In my eyes, Leigh were well-deserved winners; their forwards ate up metres post-contact and they moved the ball around far more than Wigan did. Defence from both teams was great, and I think Moore had a decent game overall, a bit too lenient in my opinion but he seemed to want the game to flow; I thought his decision to sin-bin Farrell was harsh, though. The game could've gone either way at any point, I felt like Wigan was on the front foot for most of the first half but the momentum swung in Leigh's favour in the second after Wigan conceded a few penalties. Leeming and Ellis had great games but Wardle was my MotM for Wigan, he shut down the Leigh attack time and time again. The lowest-scoring game in Super League history and Leigh ended their 40-year winless streak against Wigan in regular games, (minus that one pre-season friendly a few years ago), the biggest Super League opener attendance ever. Three records were broken in a single night in the derby, for the sport as a whole, that's an immensely successful night.

Had to tune to Classic FM to calm down on the drive back.... 2 indomitable defences but where was the attack? And why, WHY (!!!) didn't Smith kick the drop goals he was repeatedly set for in the last quarter?! Normally I like the lad, but he loses confidence quicker than a gnatt's fart.

Well played to Leigh, they really such to it all the way when I think we were thinking they would do of in the last 15. I think it will remove any sense of complacency from the team. I thought we only really upped the intensity for 1 set straight after Faz got binned and then the disallowed try fizzled out there urgency. I don't normally bag the ref, but the amount of 2nd or 3rd efforts in the table was ridiculous, made the game so slow.