Wigan have downed a battered Hull FC 24-10 in a lacklustre advertisement for the English Super League at WIN Stadium.
The Warriors put the game - the first Super League match to be played outside Europe - to bed on Saturday when Ben Flower burrowed over in the 70th minute in Wollongong.
The 12,146 fans on hand were treated to a forgettable spectacle as Wigan were bumbling in attack against a Hull side who finished the game with one man on the bench.
After holding a 12-10 lead at halftime, a try to prop Ryan Sutton six minutes after the resumption gave them breathing room before Flower's late try sealed it.
The sin-binning of Sam Tomkins and Josh Griffin after a brief altercation was the only real highlight of the second half.
Hull were struck a big blow in just the second minute when centre Bureta Faraimo was taken off with a concussion and Wigan immediately sought to exploit their reshuffled backline.
Wigan ran in two tries through Liam Marshall in the opening 12 minutes as their left side ran riot.
Hull stayed in touch via Fetuli Talanoa in the left corner and when Liam Marshall and Morgan Escare made a mess of a James Shaul kick, Jordan Abdull pounced to clean up the scraps to even up the score.
While Hull were brave, they simply couldn't hold on and when Liam Watts left the field with a hamstring injury midway through the second half, they were in danger of running out of replacements.
Wigan were at times sloppy with Oliver Gildert blowing a certain try in the first half however they did enough to get home ahead of their showdown against NRL side South Sydney next weekend.
Wigan coach Shaun Wane described it as a poor display marred by missed opportunities.
"We bombed five, six or seven tries and it was just not good enough," Wane said.
"It just wasn't good enough. It was close, if we'd been ruthless we could have had 40 or 50 points difference in that scoreline.
"I'm happy with the win, happy to travel all this way and get the two points but our goalline attack in that final third wasn't good enough."
Hull coach Lee Radford also revealed that centre Jake Connor strained his posterior cruciate ligament in his knee but played out the match.
Back-rower Mark Minichiello (ankle) also spent time on the sidelines and could miss next week's clash with St George Illawarra.
"It was really difficult and affected our middles in a really negative way," Radford said of their injury toll.
"We've got a decent middle but the minutes they had to drag out, it affected the flow of the game.
"I never, ever questioned the boys' effort."
