: Sat May 23, 2009 11:17 am
St pete wrote:
No grudge at all. In fact I'd love him to go on to be top class.
It just makes my blood boil how carried away you get when he plays ok.
He is a good club player and nothing more. Teams need these players but he is no better than gilmour, clough, Lego head or even bennet.
Yet you get hard on if he has a ok game.
But he had more than an ok game. He is different to every single one of those players you have mentioned in so much as he has a greater "skill set." He gives us more a more dynamic out put, and an extra option.
Gilly is a powerful and fast second rower come centre. Clough is one of the toughest out there, will run balls up all day and tackle for his life. LegoHead offers a good pair of hands and a steady turn of pace through a gap. Bennett offered workrate and dependability.
Wilkin offers, and almost always delivers the extra option. The amount of times he dummy runs not to get the ball, but to get smashed is very unnoticed. As mentioned, this was missing against Wigan at Murrayfield, and why we looked so flat.