15 players now injured with just 16 left. May as well play the second team for the Cup match, and try and get as many fit again for the SL game.

The cup shouldn’t be a focus in the IMG era. You only benefit if you win (apart from the exposure and the but if cash) Play the juniors with a sprinkling of what’s left. Give minutes to the players that need it ie namo, hindmarsh, robb, hodson

Not sure we have much choice for team selctin this week. Down to the barest of bones so would make sense not to risk anyone for the subsequent weeks of league fixtures.

Hopefully, no more injuries today and damage limitation. Keep them down to a 30 point margin will be great, if possible.

stuey Keep them down to a 30 point margin will be great, if possible. 😬 Was always going to be a tough one. That’s a proper battering though.

With 15 players out injured, we had no chance of winning, but unfortunately at their place next week it will be an even bigger hammering. They could well get 80 against us next week. They are by miles the best side in SL, and have lost just 1 match since July last year. Did anyone seriously think we were going to beat them even at full strength.

We’d have run the close of the rfl had allowed us to in the first match. Didn’t expect a win, didn’t get a win. Did we get any injuries or are any bans incoming?

RaoulDuke Seen on twitter some people up in arms over the namo tackle that broke isa’s ankle. I saw the video this morning and it looked like he (isa) got his foot stuck in the turf. So he could be one in trouble with the disciplinary knowing our look. Looked an ok tackle to me.

Maturecasfan that’s not to bad then. Will look out for the tackle.

RaoulDuke Namo was the third man in, but his initial contact on isa was around the hips. Imo just a pure accident. You see that type of tackle many many times per game.

Namo charge with a grade F Referred to a Tribunal. Farce.

Wigan

RaoulDuke

This is the tackle, can’t see him hitting the legs only Isa trying to break free.

Maturecasfan

Despite the Club’s appeal, Sylvester Namo’s 5-game ban has been upheld and will serve his suspension

Diabolical.

Hepworth

It apppears the panel believe Isa’s injury was a direct result of the way Namo entered the tackle,irrespective of where contact was made yet Isa himself disagreed with that assessment. There will be plenty of similar tackles this weekend that will go unpunished as there were incidences of inappropriate contact to the head after Watts was banned. I’ve never subscribed to conspiracy theories and there are numerous posts on other clubs forum where they cite incidents that have gone against them. What appears to lacking from the panel is a lack of any effective accountability,consistency, transparency or good old fashioned common sense. The fact that supporters of all clubs appear to have no faith in the disciplinary panel is solely down to their own actions.

TheFirm

So surely then from now on any tackle by any player of any club that results in an injury to the ball carrier should be an instant lengthy ban. Do you think that will happen? No me neither.

RaoulDuke

The panel seem to like to double down on their bias. Both watts and namo have no intention to injure but complete a tackle.

The problem now is namo is in the same league as watts, asiata and a few others that get bans rather than warnings now due to their history. One big difference is we don’t have a ceo or coach willing to threaten the rfl like Beaumont and lam at leigh. They’ve made asiatas cannonball acceptable.

My fear is we’ll accept the rfls decision to get rid of us rather than make waves.

This doesn’t bode well for us. Imo.

stuey

Let’s hope we can limit the damage tonight and keep the score line down to a reasonable level.

Less than 40 would be a great outcome.

TheFirm

stuey You talking about at halftime? Because sadly i’d say if we kept them last weeks score it would be progress but without Westy in there i fear it will be worse.

FlatCapper

And, if we never did think there was bias in the system, the Catalans player Bayley Sironen, also charged with a Grade E offence, was cleared. First decision from the panel seems pretty clear that tyjey considered the incident very serious but, somehow, Catalan have provided new footage and he got off.

It is absolutely beyond a joke.

Maturecasfan

FlatCapper

No one will ever convince me there’s a bias towards cas.

stuey

TheFirm

When I said “hope we can limit the damage tonight ”. I meant no more injuries, red or yellow cards, and players banned next week. The scoreline does not really matter. It will get to the point, that players will be afraid to tackle anyone for fear of a ban.

stuey

6 matches ban for the guy who tackled Tapisale then. Same type of tackle, but with it being a Wigan player, he will get away with it.

Matt

Great try was that. If he wants to score those every week then sign him up.

Matt

We look a completely different team.

Hepworth

I tell you,whether it’s injuries,refereeing decisions or just the bounce of the ball,if it wasn’t for bad luck we’d have no luck at all. We fronted up first half against the best team in the comp, Wigan are class and while I fully expect them to win comfortably in the end,we’ve matched them in terms of effort,whatever happens second half our ever decreasing squad has shown enough already to suggest we have something to take forward. It’s Lingards job to ensure that whatever 17 we can put out has the same approach.

stuey

Great performance so far. Let’s hope we can keep it up.

Maturecasfan

We need to learn how to score more than one try per game.
Our attack is poor.

pirate

Maturecasfan
We scored 2 tries, wigan are averaging two tries scored against them per game so we are average against the best side in the comp

TheFirm

Better than i thought it would be. Mo lack of effort this week but we lack the brains and brawn to be able to compete with a quality team like Wigan. A step in the right direction after last week though.

Hepworth

Spot on,it’s a combination of the two, and we came up against a side tonight who have both in abundance and we won’t be the last team to succumb to it this season.

pirate

Who calls the set restarts? Is it the ref ?

How the hell did Wigan get all those six agains and we got none (cant remember seeing us get one)

Got to feel a little sorry for the guys after all that effort,

We now have a run of five games where we could realistically win three of them.

Onwards and upwards

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