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Warrington Wolves 21-man squad: Matty Ashton, Joe Bullock, Josh Charnley, Daryl Clark, Jason Clark, Mike Cooper, Ben Currie, Matt Davis, Riley Dean, Oliver Holmes, Toby King, Ellis Longstaff, Billy Magoulias, Peter Mata’utia, Robbie Mulhern, Joe Philbin, Stefan Ratchford, Josh Thewlis, Danny Walker, George Williams, Connor Wrench.
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The Speculator wrote:
I can see Powell leaving out Dean for this one and going with...
Thewlis Charnley Mata'utia King Ashton Ratchford Williams Cooper D Clark Mulhern Currie Holmes Magoulias
Philbin Bullock Walker J Clark or Davis
Powell has criticised Dean's kicking in the Wigan game. I think that is a little harsh. Plenty of other players could have been criticised for that Wigan game. A certain centre for one.
MT: By the sounds of what we’re hearing from you and the players, the right things are happening on the training pitch so have you been able to put more of a finger on why it’s not translating to game day?
DP: I think we just need to get more control in our game. We need to kick better to give our defensive starts more of a chance. If you look back at the Wigan game, we started loose defensively and that’s obviously an area we have to improve. We got back level and had a really good set straight after that but put a really loose kick in. Riley’s had some excellent bits of play in the two games he’s played but he put a couple of loose kicks in.
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Wires71 wrote:
Powell has criticised Dean's kicking in the Wigan game. I think that is a little harsh. Plenty of other players could have been criticised for that Wigan game. A certain centre for one.
MT: By the sounds of what we’re hearing from you and the players, the right things are happening on the training pitch so have you been able to put more of a finger on why it’s not translating to game day?
DP: I think we just need to get more control in our game. We need to kick better to give our defensive starts more of a chance. If you look back at the Wigan game, we started loose defensively and that’s obviously an area we have to improve. We got back level and had a really good set straight after that but put a really loose kick in. Riley’s had some excellent bits of play in the two games he’s played but he put a couple of loose kicks in.
It appears to be the way at Wire - quick to have a dig at the young players, but the older heads seem to be immune from criticism. He could just as well have said "I'm pretty disappointed that I brought Oliver Holmes over from Cas with me, and he's done absolutely bugger all in three months", but that would be expecting too much, I suppose.
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The Speculator wrote:
It appears to be the way at Wire - quick to have a dig at the young players, but the older heads seem to be immune from criticism. He could just as well have said "I'm pretty disappointed that I brought Oliver Holmes over from Cas with me, and he's done absolutely bugger all in three months", but that would be expecting too much, I suppose.
You know I don't think I can recall a time when a coach named a player in such a way as he did by singling out Dean. He fails to mention that Dean singlehandedly got us back into the game with a great individual try.
I would have thought the turnstyle left edge defence would have been further up the criticism list then a few poor kicks.
Identifying a young lad's kicks as one of the reasons we lost against Wigan, whilst seasoned pros stunk the place out is not on. Powell's first black mark for me.
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