WE WON’T HIT PANIC BUTTON

Williams is sure of Wigan revival

GEORGE WILLIAMS insists it’s not panic stations yet despite Wigan’s miserable run of results.

But the Warriors stand-off admits they need to stop the rot fast. “We are not stressed but it is not a nice feeling. We are not used to losing,” said Williams.

“Losing three on the bounce and a draw is not where we want to be. Regardless of injuries, it is not good enough.”

Wigan were top after winning their opening five games but injuries have hit them hard over the last month.

Kicking

A draw with Huddersfield was followed by narrow defeats by Hull and Leeds, both of which they almost won.

Thursday’s 27-10 loss to Super League leaders Castleford was more one-sided but Williams says his team are kicking themselves.

He said: “That’s the worst bit because the last three games we could definitely have won.

“We are feeling a bit of pressure and we’ve brought that on ourselves with errors but overall we are not too down.

“We have got a lot to work on but we will be back definitely. You cannot fault our effort but at the minute we are not being smart enough.”

Nine senior players were crocked for the Cas game and only Sean O’Loughlin and Anthony Gelling might be back for their Good Friday derby at St Helens.

England star Liam Farrell, who made his comeback from injury against the Tigers, added: “We do not want to complain about injuries.

“We were very capable of winning that game against Cas with the team we had ® but we were dumb in some things in defence.

“There are definitely areas we can improve on and there is no better time than next week against Saints.

“We started pretty well against Cas but didn’t capitalise on it and seemed to go into our shell and let two soft tries in.

“It is not something we usually do and we’re going to have to fix it because it has been creeping in over the last few weeks.”

Youngsters Liam Marshall, Tom Davies and Liam Forsyth have all had plenty of