Lack of size : Fri May 13, 2016 9:00 pm  

Amazing how small our team still is. We've all been worried about our lack of size for years so its amazing Radlinski has repeatedly failed to address this with recruitment. Looks like men against boys.

Re: Lack of size : Fri May 13, 2016 9:35 pm  

Pacific wrote:

Amazing how small our team still is. We've all been worried about our lack of size for years so its amazing Radlinski has repeatedly failed to address this with recruitment. Looks like men against boys.

I said exactly the same men against boys our team looked very young and small tonight

Re: Lack of size : Fri May 13, 2016 9:44 pm  

An issue that should have been addressed long ago. An issue that was identified as our weakness 3 years ago by our "coach".

Nothing has been done to resolve it.

Size isn't everything, or so my Mrs keeps reminding me, but it helps and when you have a small team you need to compensate that with skill.

We however play like a big team, trying to bully and get over the top of teams without having the size to do it. Made my thoughts clear on our coaching ideology on another thread so not going to bore you all on here again.

Re: Lack of size : Fri May 13, 2016 9:54 pm  

IN fairness you have sum big lumps, clubb loughlin,sutton,tompkins arnt little,

Re: Lack of size : Fri May 13, 2016 10:07 pm  

Sorry if it upsets some but Tomkins and Clubb both went into their shells when Gaz Ellis decided to impose himself.

Re: Lack of size : Fri May 13, 2016 10:16 pm  

newgroundb4wakey wrote:

Sorry if it upsets some but Tomkins and Clubb both went into their shells when Gaz Ellis decided to impose himself.

Disagree about Clubb. Tomkins however is simply a liability who offers very little. Another player seemingly who will never recover from his code switch. Isa and Tomkins are poor. Isa Tomkins and Faz all have a daft penalty in them. Take Bateman out, like Wane did tonight and I would say our backrow is a real weakness.

Re: Lack of size : Sat May 14, 2016 12:48 am  

jonh wrote:

Disagree about Clubb. Tomkins however is simply a liability who offers very little. Another player seemingly who will never recover from his code switch. Isa and Tomkins are poor. Isa Tomkins and Faz all have a daft penalty in them. Take Bateman out, like Wane did tonight and I would say our backrow is a real weakness.

Don't want to troll, but I thought Bateman was exceptional again, I was surprised about Joel Tompkins's non existent performance as he destroyed us last time. I also thought Clubb had a decent game.
I did notice SOL giving away a few stupid pens; perhaps he is rusty in his first game back?

Re: Lack of size : Sat May 14, 2016 2:54 am  

saint at wire wrote:

Don't want to troll, but I thought Bateman was exceptional again, I was surprised about Joel Tompkins's non existent performance as he destroyed us last time. I also thought Clubb had a decent game.
I did notice SOL giving away a few stupid pens; perhaps he is rusty in his first game back?

Agree with Saint at Wire- Bateman outstanding and Clubb outstanding for me. Both would get in any side.
I think you miss Mcclorum to get the best out of the rest of the forwards.
Hull were good as well.

Re: Lack of size : Sat May 14, 2016 6:51 am  

Hull was just more aggressive than us...Our pack was embarrassing!!!

Re: Lack of size : Sat May 14, 2016 7:21 am  

The starting front row were really poor. If Mossop, Powell and Crosby were playing like this for Widnes etc there's no way Wigan would want to sign them. I don't understand why the club have not brought in a hooker on loan unless they expect Mickey Mc back earlier than expected.