No irony here but being a Wire fan I just wanted to congratulate you even though you lost those young players you have a fantastic. Ill be honest seeing who you had missing I thought it would be a lot more than the score line suggested. A lot of credit has to go to your club and they way the young players stood out and put a performance in like that against one of the best teams in the league was a very good performance. Even though you did lose me proud of your players because they were amazing tonight, look forward to playing you again very soon.

What a ludicrous opening comment.

Superb effort from the Wigan boys.

Very proud of our boys tonight. Our first choice 6, 9 & 13 missing. Down to our 3rd or 4th string props, very, very good performance tonight. for 35 minutes of that second half we absolutely dominated. Had we had at O'Loughlin, Green & Mickey I think we may have nicked it. Our young lads will take a lot from that defeat, probably more than they would have, had we won. They know now what it takes to win a big game, and i'm confident this will do them wonders for years to come.

You're doing your players a disservice calling them 'kids'. I think there's only Wigan and Leeds with the strength in depth to field 2 competitive SL teams.

Played a blinder tonight in a game that could have gone either way, scoreline flattered Wire. Statistically ahead after first half but down on points due to sods law and that was the difference in the end.

No shame in a great game.

great game, no-one deserved to lose. Wigan were quite under strength, even had 3 players who have played for Leigh (us) out there tonight.
Ignore the trolls, they can't really take the p***, and mean it.

Could be the last time Warrington beat Wigan for a while that.

Reckon the next 2-4 years, with the players Warrington are going to lose and no apparent signings coming in, Wigan will return to the ascendancy in the derbies.

The only qualm I have from tonight is why the hell didn't he play George Williams?! We could have had another forward on the bench but instead we had Williams who didn't even get a chance.

Apart from that, thought it was a fantastic effort and a fantastic game!

Outstanding tonight, however the lads put a hell of a lot of effort in, Fridays match could be too much too soon

The only other options really were lloyd and spencer, and we already had 5 back rowers playing.

I'd have had Greenwood in the squad today and put him on for 20 minutes.

Given our injuries that was a really good performance from the team.

Cracking performance from the lads, even had the chance to win it if Josh's intercept had stuck near the end. The performance from all the team, plus the experience the youngsters have gained, mean a lot more than the two league points.

Warrington weren't at full strength. They were missing injured Bridge, Harrison, Cooper and Evans.

And who would they have displaced?

Oh here he comes!



Go and enjoy your win!

You really must be mortified that our young lads did so well tonight.

I mean honestly......

And Morley. I think that was the feeblest first carry I've ever seen after being bigged up as an impact sub.

Just stating facts as opposed to those saying Warrington were at full strength.

As for who they would replace? That's Tony Smith's call although a quick look will see that whenever they have been fit Bridge, Cooper and Harrison have been in the 17 every week.

Who would Wigan's five missing props have replaced?

Tomkins, Charnley, Smith, Goulding and Powell knowing Wane

Not strictly an answer to your question, but then your question is an attempt to dodge the main issue.

Sean O'Loughlin would have replaced Burke, Ben Flower would have replaced Crosby, Gil Dudson or Eric Lauaki would have replaced Spencer, Mike McIlorum would have replaced Williams and Blake Green would have replaced Powell.

There's five for you, with one extra as sugar on top.

Any more questions, or are you now embarrassed enough?

And taylor in for williams most likely.

:s

Just for your information O'Loughlin, McIlorum and Green are not props.

All I'm saying is that Warrington were not at full strength which is something multiple posts on here were stating.

Aha oops. Need to pay more attention.

I thought Warrington were average. They didn't look fit at all and when we started dominating their forwards looks absolutely knackered, they couldn't back in their attacking line. Outstanding effort from our lads. Not too disappointed with the loss cause a good performance was what I wanted. When it comes to the serious games at the end of the season, full strength we have a great chance of beating Wire.