Well good for Charnley going to face the fans. That shows a bit of character. Mind you I hope Radlinski and the rest of the coaching staff realise it wasn't just a matter of enthusiasm. If we put it down to that alone we won't have learned anything.

I think it's harsh to criticise Charnley for some of his mistake tonight. He may have got beaten in the air a couple of times but he was facing Joel Monaghan! He's only a couple of centimetres shorter than Pat Richards so he's got the height and he's just as dangerous. Richards has embarrassed numerous players when we put attacking kicks to the corner because it's so hard for even good players to compete with him and the same goes for Monaghan. The attacking player almost always has the advantage because they are able to take a running jump for the kick and so get a bit of extra height. When you have the height advantage already it makes all the difference.



There was also a dropped ball when he wasn't under pressure. That to me was probably just a lapse in concentration. He was determined to get to the ball and got his body in a poor position to try to catch it so it was inevitable that he would knock on. He will learn from his mistakes, but Roberts did the same thing a couple of times against Huddersfield. When you've run across the pitch to defuse a kick it's hard to tell yourself to stop and let the ball bounce when you're committed, but when you're in an awkward position and there isn't much pressure that's usually the best thing to do.

young player.learning....rest him

I'd love to have Charnley at Wire, he is a very talented young player who has a great future in the game. There were other far more experienced Wigan players who were not good last night.

Felt sorry for the lad, didn't get the protection he needed from his centre or second row

Play Charnley in the centre instead of Marsh (nice lad, hard-working but not Wigan class I'm afraid) and put Roberts on the wing! Simple!

Roberts is getting stick this week and did nothing wrong, sums up the boo boys.



Charnley has now has 2 poor games from 3, he's young still learning and will bounce back and is obviously going to make a top class players. It's early season so no major worries from me.

It was carmont coming inside for the tries not charnleys fault

Were our own worse enemy if you don't preasurise a kicker like briers,brough etc we ll get kicked out of every game FACT .

I agree with this, we struggled when we played Hudds cos we didn't get in the face of Brough and the same happened against Briers last night. They are too good if we give them space on the last tackle. (Although none of what you said was a 'FACT'

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Charnley has been awesome the last 2 games before this lets not bash him on here



We saw doggy (who i slated big time) saying to briers kick it here everytime he's so small to me and he was bang on

So the entire result was down to enthusiasm then? Fair play to Radlinski for summing it up so succinctly.



Charnley was dreadful last night but he was absolutely superb last week and from what I've seen of him so far, last night is more likely to be the exception that the rule.