...cracking atmosphere, shame about the result!

I'm surprisingly not as disappointed as I probably should be. Both teams made lots of mistakes, just that they punished ours more than we did theirs, and on another night, with a bit better luck, could easily have gone the other way. Both teams will still be in the mix come the playoffs.

Nice to see a bit off "biff", too, even with the resulting daft penalties!

Even without the result (which is perfect btw) i would have enjoyed that game, another 'classic' to add to the last few years between the clubs.

Wire were fortunate tonight. Wigan did enough to win but Wire just kept coming back.
Not pretty but very tense.
Great crowd too 21k +

I thought we threw the game away. Wasn't bothered about losing last year because they were just better than us. Even Radlinski said we threw it away.

Even Radlinski eh? Shame. Flags looked good though.

I agree, already said it.

Wigan looked dangerous on most sets, we looked a little 1 dimensional, we lucked in today.

The kind of result that should bode well for us , tough ground out if some what lucky win.

Wigan didn't throw it away, eric did. silverwoods weird decisions in the second half didn't help much though

By weird decisions, are you referring to the non-award of a penalty when Hock took out a man to let Tomkins break through? Or maybe his refusal to send Lauaki off?

Looked just like the build up to the Dogtanian try to me.

Once again our lack of a kicking game bit us in the . Far too many kicks going straight down the throat of the defender or into touch.

Edge of the seat stuff and a great advert for our wonderful game (apart from a certain tackle but moving on) All we need to do now is change the sky munch bunch!! They are useless!

Wire at about 50%, Wigan at about 70%, lots of mistakes......If we are being honest, the constant closeness of the score was the main reason for it being a good game.

If either side had just been able to step up a level, then it could have been one-sided and a pretty tedious match.

From a Wire point of view, the main thing to come out of this is that we are becoming very difficult to beat, even when nowhere near their best.....If I was a Wiganer, the feeling would be pretty similar - Plenty more to come from both sides, I'd reckon the Grand Final will be contested between these two come October.

or the Wigan try that came from knock on or incorrect play the ball, take your pick.

tbh, ref was utter turd tonight for both teams.

they did level them selfs up in the end so nobody should moan about the bad calls costing the game. but the incorrect play of the ball was advantage from messing around in the ruck

It wasn't an incorrect play-the-ball, you are correct.

Because it was a voluntary tackle. No-one had tackled him.

Cracking game.

you kept letting us off the hook by going for the 2 instead of building pressure...the relief was tangible in the Wire crowd every time Silverwood pointed to the posts for another let off.

Watching it in the pub with no sound, every time you went for 2 i was.....phew...... thank god.

That game should have been Wigan by about 16, yet we came away with the 2 points, chuffed and relieved.

This. I thought it was pretty poor stuff from both teams. Too many silly errors, brain farts and indiscipline to be a classic. Both teams can play much better.

We weren't clinical enough in attack to get over the line though I don't think. Your defence was superb at times (a few offsides but the same with us) so I was quite happy to take the two points. Had we not thrown an intercept at 18-12 or missed an easy kick at 12-6 then we'd have won the game. We did, and we didn't.

Personally I thought we got the rough end of the stick from the officials but most Wire fans will think the same. We made some poor mistakes which kept you in the game.

Cracking game of RL.

I still think you made the wrong calls on some of the pens. You were making easy yards, our defence was 'holding on'..just..and yet you still went for the 2.

Great tackle by Atkins on Tomkins when he looked to be heading for 6...I don't know how he caught him.

It was a good game but both teams played at nothing like they could which is actually what made the game as good as it was, if either team had shown up and played clinically the other team would have been battered.

Wigan were the better team and lost due to poor decision making.

The ref was sh*t full stop, he neither lost a game for Wigan nor won it for Wire.

Cos Atkins is f*ck*ng rapido mate

amen to that!..he came from nowhere!...I had resigned myself to Mr Tomkins placing the ball under the black dot...then a streak of red and black appeared like a heat-seeking missile...quality!

tbf all tomkins had to do was look behind him and not ran exactly straight he would've scored instead he tried to pin his ears back and go for it and just didnt have the pace, charnley had a quiet game hardly got the ball in hand and wen he did riley had the position to force him to cut inside.