Kilner was very impressive. No fear, really put himself about and had a great attitude. Plus he's a unit so frightening how good he could be as he physically matures. Pearce Paul has so much ability and very rangey, strong and illusive. There's certainly a few knocking on the door and I'd love to see the likes of Kilner play in an established first team pack because he'd shine. There should be one or two established players looking over their shoulder concerned about their shirt after some of of those performances

About what I expected tonight. We did the right thing 100%.



Considering these factors -



Massively inexperienced side

Saints are a brilliant team wanting a big performance after being knock out the cup

Saints having last Friday off

Most of our team having not played a game since February.



I think we did okay. I think you could slot any one of our 17 into the our first team 17 and they would do a good job for us



We held up physically a lot better than I thought we would, just the spine of Coote, lomax, Fages, roby was too good for us.



Gutted for Jack Wells, ( can’t believe the Graham crusher wasn’t mentioned)



It’s time for Jake Sharrocks to move on, he’s had no luck with injuries but I’m unsure how he’s still at the club (he’s a year older than gildart by the way, 25 next month)



All the lads will be better for the experience.



People up in arms wanting our strongest team tonight need a reality check.

Yes we got to look at some young talent. Yes we can smugly say we're playing in the semi.



But that has to go down as one of the worst Wigan Saints derbies in decades.



Tuesday Night, No Crowd, No first teamers, An average Saints cruise home and barely look bothered they won.

Like the 2005-2008 bunch when we knew we would get stuffed 99 times out of 100.

Great effort by the team tonight,for those people who are having a small dig at Hanley, I can can remember watching a young lad on debut for Saints at Wembley who dropped everything we aimed at him,had a nightmare, but he turned out ok,it was a certain mr Gary Connolly

Really good turn up from the lads last night. I’m confident now for the rest of the season that a few of those players can step into the first team and do a job. Ben Kilner especially, never took a backwards step and showed a great aggression (that looked under control and used more as a drive) I was really impressed by Kai Pearce-Paul he had some great carries and had a strength that seemed to come from no where (similar to Batty) going to really enjoy seeing what this lad can do when he fills out a little. Hanley got a lot of stick but I think people are forgetting that most of these lads have not Had a competitive game in months and to be thrown in against one of the best in the comp they should be proud of themselves.



To me saints looked shot last night. A lot of errors in attack, no flair to them. Looking at the players they are bringing through; Bentley, welsby, lee, Knowles looked poor . I see a lot to be concerned about when the Ageing saints players retire.

I wouldn’t go as far as that on Saints but they’re not the team that scared the hell out of me under Holbrook. We didn’t contain Walmsley well last night but they’re so reliant on him creating space it’s untrue. In a proper game if we can get in his face and limit his impact you’ve won half the battle. It’s easier said than done with the form he’s in but it’s not as big a task as it was to keep him and Thompson quiet. The downgrade from Thompson to Graham is huge. I’ve so much respect for James Graham but he’s clearly ready for a well deserved retirement.

Think you were watching a different game pal ..Bentley is arguably the Best British youngster coming through at the moment and it shows by keeping his place all season in the best team in Superleague. Hes very similar to Bateman has has that bit of steel about him.The work he gets through in the middle is relentless. That side last night would have upped a gear if they were playing your first team and still would have won at a canter.

He’s a decent young player Bentley but I find the comparisons to Bateman a bit of a laugh. Talk about heaping pressure on a player! He’s not the biggest, he was signed from Bradford, he has eyeballs and a mouth, so therefore he’s like John Bateman. I’m not bagging you, as you’ve just said he’s got steel about him like Bateman but I’m hearing these comparisons on a regular basis now and it’s ridiculous. We’re talking about one of the best backrowers in the world here, a guy who has smashed it in the NRL and was the best in his position in superleague whereas Bentley is a reasonable young player.

We’re all entitled to our opinion. Bentley is no Bateman and he never will be.

We only know the answer to that on Saturday I think. We have to win the game.

How come this amazing team didnt 'up a gear' against Wire in the cup? They would have won at a canter and would now be looking forward to a semi final and probable trip to Wembley? Funny that.