Re: Pre-Season Derby result : Sun Jan 25, 2015 9:18 pm
Pacific wrote:
Yeah i agree. As much as I like him L. Farrell does come across too timid a lot of the time when the opposition are aggressive.
As for his brother Connor, he looked decent but my only worry with him is his lack of size. No doubt he'll get bigger with age but it was a complete mismatch today him coming up against Atelea Vea in the same position who was 3 stone heavier than him!! Mark Bitcoin needs to work miracles with young Connor I think.
As for his brother Connor, he looked decent but my only worry with him is his lack of size. No doubt he'll get bigger with age but it was a complete mismatch today him coming up against Atelea Vea in the same position who was 3 stone heavier than him!! Mark Bitcoin needs to work miracles with young Connor I think.
Pacific I beg to differ when you say that Farrell is to timid, he is the only forward who does the full 80 min and today he was the only forward who made any ground or half a break ( even though he needs to cut out the niggly lying on at the play the ball). In my opinion his only downfall to being a really great second row is lack of size.
But the main concern is the lack of cohesion at halfback, whatever partnership we have at present just does not seem to gell.
Again in my opinion Smith is not a running or creative scrum half and as I have said before he plays as a secondary dummy half. By saying this all he seems to do is move the ball as quick has he can to the right and today by trying to move the ball fast ( the famous Wigan structure) the pass either went behind the supporting Wigan players or in some cases these same Wigan players overran the ball.
So what is the answer, I would play Hampshire and Williams at halfback next week at Workington, if only to give them time to get a bit of confidence back and I would play Smith at hooker and have MM on the bench.
Halfback is without doubt the problem at Wigan and something has to be sorted out, because there is nobody else on the horizon waiting to come in.