: Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:06 pm  

wireboot wrote:

Question Where is reardon in all this ?

Who Harry Houdini living it up on us!! I think if a player is injured & still getting paid which they all do nowadays anyway they should be made to come to the games END OF! They do in football

: Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:09 pm  

JWP wrote:

Fullback is becoming a bit of a problem now.

Hicks is crap there, folk just walk past him, and I've never seen him make a break from there.

Riley isn't doing the best of jobs right now. He's making errors, which are proving costly etc. He's also joing the line, but hasn't got the handling to exploit overlaps etc, that's frustrating me at times, couple of times this happened yesterday, 3 on 2 etc, but it dies with Chris. It's easy to criticise from the stands though.

Bridge - Eek ? Would be a risk. Attacking wise you'd gain, big question mark over the defensive stuff, positioning.

Forget Reardon for a month or two.

Murphy from the academy ? Could he be the answer.

Quins scored a couple of tries against Salford with delicut grubbers behind the winger but infront of the fullback, we need to have somebody who's positional sense will get them in the right place.

Why not? Promoting a young prospect seemed to do wonders for Wigan this week.

: Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:15 pm  

mark_m wrote:

Why not? Promoting a young prospect seemed to do wonders for Wigan this week.

I already feel that a number of 'youngsters' have been promoted into the starting line up ahead of schedule due to injuries.

Surely if these younger youngsters were good enough they would already have had a chance in the side due to poor performances.

With Tony Smith now at the helm I am much more confident that the best 13 players will be out on the pitch and we will see a lot more fight (not fights in case L. Anderson is reading)

: Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:22 pm  

Dawson wrote:

I already feel that a number of 'youngsters' have been promoted into the starting line up ahead of schedule due to injuries.

Surely if these younger youngsters were good enough they would already have had a chance in the side due to poor performances.

With Tony Smith now at the helm I am much more confident that the best 13 players will be out on the pitch and we will see a lot more fight (not fights in case L. Anderson is reading)

Not always; depends how much the first team coach spends time and shows interest in the reserve grades. I know for a fact Tony Smith has already been watching some of the other teams train so let us see what will happen.

: Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:00 pm  

Moe syslak wrote:

He is twenty one years old with a season and a half nearly of first team rugby under his belt and i have yet to see enough to convince me he will be a good first team player.

Agreed.

He should be a (cheap) squad player to provide cover on the wing, nothing more.

I wish the club had given Varkulis this many chances, before offloading him.

: Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:48 pm  

Again we seem to be picking off one player to blame and put the blame on?
We cannot excuse we allowed 12 points in just 10 minutes.
Not denying that Riley was to blame for the dropped ball which lead to the winning try.
However, if we were ready from the go like we was in the second half and Clarke didn't go down the blindside in the last seconds, the 2 points should of been ours.
Back to the same argument though, 'if we did' or 'if he didn't'.
All in all, definite improvement. Seem to be getting our 'fight' back!

: Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:19 pm  

Wolf_man wrote:

Again we seem to be picking off one player to blame and put the blame on?

I'm not saying that it's all down to Riley, we had plenty of opportunities to win at the weekend.

All I'm saying is that he isn't good enough at full back, and we need to make a change.

I'm getting fed up of certain posters trying to claim he's been our best player so far this season

Of the 4 games so far, he has been ok in 1, poor in 2, and hopeless in 1.

: Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:50 pm  

i like chris riley but not as our fullback,
playin fullback for woolston rovers is one thing,
but a super league club no no sorry,

back on the wing will do,look at other clubs fullbacks,
briscoe hull kr,
brent webb (when fit) leeds,
pat richards (wigan)now they have naffed off mathers,
wellens(stains)

good solid quality safe players,
who you need as your last line of defence...

: Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:25 am  

the ditch wrote:

i like chris riley but not as our fullback,
playin fullback for woolston rovers is one thing,
but a super league club no no sorry,

back on the wing will do,look at other clubs fullbacks,
briscoe hull kr,
brent webb (when fit) leeds,
pat richards (wigan)now they have naffed off mathers,
wellens(stains)

good solid quality safe players,
who you need as your last line of defence...

Your songs never rhyme mate.

: Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:23 am  

if ayone can bring riley through surely its tony smith if its on the wing or at fullback, have a bit of patience with the lad and trust whatever smith decides to do with him and we may find that he becomes our star player in years to come if it's not working then im sure smith will look for the next prospect when the time is right