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Re: Pre-Season Derby result : Sun Jan 25, 2015 9:18 pm  
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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.


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.
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Re: Pre-Season Derby result : Sun Jan 25, 2015 9:27 pm  
The fact that we're a week and a half away from the start of the season and we don't know what our half-back combination will be is ridiculous.
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Re: Pre-Season Derby result : Sun Jan 25, 2015 10:05 pm  
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The fact that we're a week and a half away from the start of the season and we don't know what our half-back combination will be is ridiculous.


I agree totally. I was amazed when Williams was given the number 6 jersey. Surely he was /is more of a scrum half than stand off - I think he made his debut a couple of years ago at London and he scored a 40 yard try after an outrageous dummy. He reminded me then ( in physique) of a young Andy Gregory and that try reminded me of one Greg scored against Halifax over 20 years ago when he sold several equally outrageous dummies! . Certainly he used to play 7 with Hampshire at 6 for the academy - that might be the best option as far as a balanced partnership goes. But can we "drop" the England number 7 from his (rightful?) scrum half position? Keep Smith at 7 and have Hampshire 6 - most of us agree Hampshire has had 2 bad days at the office as full back in both friendlies, but he was impressive at 6, particularly against Leigh.

My other concern is the lack of size in the pack. Masoe, Amor, Walmsley looked massive in comparison with the Wigan pack - and the Leigh forwards also looked bigger. This lack of size was supposed to have been addressed and was referred to at the Fans Forum by IL, but there still seems a disparity. Crosby, Mossop, Flower and Patrick do not seem to have the same physical presence as the other top teams' props. And Bateman and both Farrells aren't massive beasts either! Wane obviously prefers mobile ( and therefore "slimmer") props, but sheer size and weight are surely important factors too, particularly with props and even second rows.

We need a Kelvin Skerrett type prop and a David Furner type second row!
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Re: Pre-Season Derby result : Sun Jan 25, 2015 10:24 pm  
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The fact that we're a week and a half away from the start of the season and we don't know what our half-back combination will be is ridiculous.


It might not be in our minds but I think it is in Wane's. He spoke after the game about the Williams/Smith partnership and how they need to work better together but I doubt he'll move away from that pairing for a little while. He also spoke about how many things Hampshire has to work on during the same interview and seemed to be dampening any expectation that he may come in to the starting line up.

I've got to be honest though I would like to think the past two weeks have put paid to thought of Hampshire being a fullback because it's simply not his position. I would rather run with Sarginson, Tierney or Burgess in there should anything happen to Bowen and let Hampshire concentrate on his halfback play. We're wasting valuable time having this kid working on fielding kicks and making one on one tackles when to me he should be working on getting a team round the field from halfback and on his kicking game, both out of hand and from the kicking tee. We complain as a country that we don't produce top quality halfbacks, well we've got one in the making 'If' he's given the chance.
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Re: Pre-Season Derby result : Sun Jan 25, 2015 10:38 pm  
I honestly cant get my head around why Wane is too stubborn to play Hampshire at standoff consistently? He was brilliant there against Leigh and he's been awful at fullback the past few games.

Our club talks about 'Long term planning' a lot and at last weeks Fans Forum Radlinski didnt stop talking about how our club has long term succession plans and they already know the plans for each young players future and position in the team. With this in mind it seems pretty obvious to me that as Hampshire is clearly better at Standoff than fullback he should be moved there. And, as a long term fullback, Tierney will be able to step up in a season or so. Hampshire has said himself that he prefers standoff to fullback and I believe his dad said similar on the Wakefield board last season. Tierney is obviously going to become a decent fullback in time so why is Wane so worried about Hampshire playing Standoff?

Most worrying of all at the Fans Forum Radlinski said he's even discussed with Wane the option of playing Hampshire as a hooker and filling in there. i think this would be yet another step back and would halt the development of the lad.
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Re: Pre-Season Derby result : Sun Jan 25, 2015 10:55 pm  
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This lack of size was supposed to have been addressed and was referred to at the Fans Forum by IL, but there still seems a disparity. Crosby, Mossop, Flower and Patrick do not seem to have the same physical presence as the other top teams' props. And Bateman and both Farrells aren't massive beasts either!


Ah well, there's always next season.
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Re: Pre-Season Derby result : Sun Jan 25, 2015 11:26 pm  
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My other concern is the lack of size in the pack. Masoe, Amor, Walmsley looked massive in comparison with the Wigan pack - and the Leigh forwards also looked bigger. This lack of size was supposed to have been addressed and was referred to at the Fans Forum by IL, but there still seems a disparity. Crosby, Mossop, Flower and Patrick do not seem to have the same physical presence as the other top teams' props. And Bateman and both Farrells aren't massive beasts either! Wane obviously prefers mobile ( and therefore "slimmer") props, but sheer size and weight are surely important factors too, particularly with props and even second rows.

We need a Kelvin Skerrett type prop and a David Furner type second row!


Yes, this was the point I was trying to make about Liam Farrell. Our lack of size was VERY apparent today. It seems a lot of our props such as Flower (when hes back), Mossop, Clubb and Patrick are actually more 'beefed up' second rowers than out-and-out props.

Our backrow, whilst having enormous potential, is also pretty small.

Im all for giving kids a chance but the reason forwards usually come through later than backs at most teams is because they need to put size on. Greenwood and Sutton still look a little light for me.

Tautai will help us with size but will he be enough?

Of course Saints are a bigger than average team and we're a younger than average team so to an extent this size mismatch is to be expected. But today it was probably the first time in a few years, especiAally the first half, where i've seen Wigan genuinely struggle to deal with an opposition pack.
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Re: Pre-Season Derby result : Sun Jan 25, 2015 11:39 pm  
I have to be honest I'm not a big fan of Farrell. I know that many will not agree with that but I genuinely don't know what he brings.

He clearly has his moments and can run a good line but he drops too much ball, his discipline is not great and he lacks size. I appreciate the size element can't be helped. Faz will look great against poor teams but lacks the ability to impact in big games.

We have been saying we need size got a few years now yet we are still running with a small pack especially in the backrow. I think we could carry that if we went huge in the frontrow but again we haven't. I genuinely don't understand the Patrick signing.

Tautai will do some damage, I still think we should have been looking for a big experienced Prop. We are crying out for a Scott Logan or Craig Smith yet we sign a small to average sized backrow convert to play up front.
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Re: Pre-Season Derby result : Sun Jan 25, 2015 11:58 pm  
Wigan are clearly lacking size up front but have a back row to match any in SL.
The youngsters coming through are very raw and need time to fill out I think.
Sutton is the pick from the academy forwards currently IMO and Wigan did well to persuade him not to go to Australia.
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Re: Pre-Season Derby result : Mon Jan 26, 2015 12:00 am  
Tbf we've been saying we need a "big experienced prop" for about 6 years. And also tbf, our pack has been battered many times since then - especially last year - but our backs have constantly bailed us out. Which is why it's even more concerning that we don't have a solid 6 and 7 yet because our playbook moves where we can score from 60 yards just won't come off.

And I kinda agree with you about Farrell. For a guy so small I can't believe just how slow he is and he's often a liability with penalties. But then he'll make a 50 yard break or appear on the end of an offload and score a vital try.
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