TIME NOW FOR WANE TO TAKE A GAMBLE AT STAND-OFF : Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:08 pm  

Wane keeps getting it wrong at stand off and loosing us matches.
We know we have a decent full back in young Murphy
We know the best stand off in the world is playing full back for Wigan
So what does wayne persist in doing------Playing the best loose foward in Superleague as a mediocre stanoff
I DESPAIR AT HOW UNIMAGINATIVE WANE CAN BE
With Leulai in cruches and Bret carrying an injury Sam Powel injured why he cam't he shuffle Sam into stand off -------I don't know why?---------- the people I talk to all come to the same conclusion. Come on Wane I think you are a great coach but your blind spot is the standoff position

Re: TIME NOW FOR WANE TO TAKE A GAMBLE AT STAND-OFF : Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:55 pm  

Wane persists with sam at fb because that is his best position and he's our best player.

If he was to move sam and bring a kid in at FB he'd have done it at the start of the year, not just before the playoffs.

Re: TIME NOW FOR WANE TO TAKE A GAMBLE AT STAND-OFF : Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:59 pm  

The way Wane has the team playing is to utilise Sams natural running game. Why change teh whole teams focus when it is easier to change a couple of personnel?

Re: TIME NOW FOR WANE TO TAKE A GAMBLE AT STAND-OFF : Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:10 pm  

Nick NJ wrote:

Wane persists with sam at fb because that is his best position and he's our best player.

If he was to move sam and bring a kid in at FB he'd have done it at the start of the year, not just before the playoffs.

Like you say F/B may be Sams best posistion,but its no good having the best player in the league snuffed out like he was on Sat due to having no input at all from the halfbacks.
If Finch was as unfit as he looked it may have been the best option to have Sam at standoff and bring in the young fullback.
I think Wigan would have given the Wire more problems on Sat if this had happened.
Its called being flexible when things are not going as you want them to.

Re: TIME NOW FOR WANE TO TAKE A GAMBLE AT STAND-OFF : Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:16 pm  

stillinthepast wrote:

Like you say F/B may be Sams best posistion,but its no good having the best player in the league snuffed out like he was on Sat due to having no input at all from the halfbacks.
If Finch was as unfit as he looked it may have been the best option to have Sam at standoff and bring in the young fullback.
I think Wigan would have given the Wire more problems on Sat if this had happened.
Its called being flexible when things are not going as you want them to.

For the backs to have done wire over, we needed our pack to have provided them a platform.

Our pack was awful against wire.

We need a prop in the front row with a bit of fire at least.

Re: TIME NOW FOR WANE TO TAKE A GAMBLE AT STAND-OFF : Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:30 pm  

step forward Jamie. http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/view/2 ... mie-Soword

step forward Jamie. http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/view/2 ... mie-Soword

Re: TIME NOW FOR WANE TO TAKE A GAMBLE AT STAND-OFF : Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:35 pm  

Daily Star.....it must be reet

[Wigan6/Leeds1 Andy]

Re: TIME NOW FOR WANE TO TAKE A GAMBLE AT STAND-OFF : Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:09 pm  

We could have had Cronk and Thurston in the halves on Saturday and we would still have taken a beating. We completely lost the forward battle in all aspects of the game.

As Gorden Tallis once said - "The forwards decide who wins a game, the backs by how many."

Re: TIME NOW FOR WANE TO TAKE A GAMBLE AT STAND-OFF : Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:17 pm  

Most of our forwards not breaking 50 metres and only doing 6 carries plus 27 miss tackles plus finch was no were near fit added to us getting smashed at the week end not moving Sam to S.O

Re: TIME NOW FOR WANE TO TAKE A GAMBLE AT STAND-OFF : Tue Aug 14, 2012 5:48 am  

We needed a Jamie Peacock, James Graham, Stu Fielden (in his prime) type player on Saturday.