We lost that in the second half by playing some of the most dumb rugby we could, Smith lost the plot and seemed to want to try every fancy move and stupid play he could instead of playing calm and measured rugby. Farrell and Eckersley were turnstiles in defense and too many silly unforced errors from a lot of players. 


Hull upped the intesity and we couldn't live with it, from having the best meanest defense at the start of the season we looked totaly lost, yes we had some issues with injuries but too many players dropped off tackles or mis-read plays. Even late in the game against Warrington we started dropping off in defense and that continued here, a worrying trend late in games.


Peet has a lot of work to do during the week to get things back to how we were - we need to get back to basics and I suspect some players may have played themselves out of the first team unless we are short on players because there were some poor efforts at times.

Field picks up the hamstring injury in the build up to the Nsemba try. He just can't shake them - that's probably his fourth or fifth since he joined Wigan. You can see why he usually restricts himself to 70/80% of his top speed - when he runs at full tilt as he did tonight he seems to be at risk of injury. 

I can’t understand why we preserved with a guy playing on one leg, we would have been better advised to play Mago on the wing. Some bad calls by the coaching staff but, like everyone else they will learn from it. Congratulations to Hull, they fully deserved their victory.

Yes, AK should never have been on the pitch, let alone at 6.


Didn't he also get a good clout setting up Wigan's first try? Dunno how much impact that had.

All Hull did in that Wardle incident is apply what Wigan have consistently done for the last couple of years. Basically, anyone that's remotely near the sideline, they'll get gangtackled and dragged into touch. It's utter garbage and the rule needs changing. I really don't see what's skilful about 5 6 7 or more players throwing someone into touch as soon as the ball goes wide. If its Gordon Tallis esque on Hodgson (have a look on YouTube to remind you of that one) then that's entirely different and takes individual Great strength. Big difference.

Three blank weekends for Wigan between now and mid-June, so I expect full strength sides giving 100% each and every week, with no half-a-rsed performances like there were yesterday.  Peet should also be putting a back on the bench as the forwards should be able to last a bit longer than 15 mins at a time with the week off in the CC weekends.