Shaun Wane demands more from Wigan despite Super League victory over Huddersfield
Saturday 14 February 2015 16:34, UK
Shaun Wane cut short Wigan's celebrations and demanded better despite his side's 24-16 Super League victory over Huddersfield on Friday night.
The Warriors dug out their first win of the new season despite losing George Williams to injury in the warm-up and going in at the break 16-10 behind.
Teenage prop Ryan Sutton's first try for the club eventually sealed the win after Michael McIlorum, John Bateman
and makeshift centre Joel Tomkins had all crossed.
But Wane was less than happy ahead of next week's World Club Series meeting with Brisbane Broncos, saying: "I've very mixed emotions. I've just killed the (victory) song in there.
"I'm happy with the two points but disappointed with the performance. We have certain standards so the disruption didn't concern me. I expect players to come in and do certain things but they didn't do them.
"We still expected a better performance than what we got and we're going to have improve a lot next week.We played well in patches but we've just not found that consistency yet. We created some chances but we need to be better. I'm sick of saying that."
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Wane must now wait to discover to the extent of Williams' abductor muscle injury, while a knee problem suffered by Sean O'Loughlin is also a concern.
Huddersfield's result was an improvement on their opening week 19-0 defeat to Hull, and Paul Anderson said: "I thought our commitment to each other was way in excess of where it was last week.
"We turned up to play, we just lost our composure a couple of times when things went against us. At times we had more fluency when we tried to play but we let ourselves down with a bit of execution.
"You have to take your opportunities when they arise in games like these. That's what we have to be better at."
Watch Wigan take on Brisbane Broncos live on Sky Sports 1 next Saturday from 7pm.
