Re: Wigan Warriors vs Wakefield Trinity : Sat Feb 25, 2023 4:56 pm
BackSeatCoach wrote:
Great analytical post. Thank you.
Corey Hall gets a bit of a touch up here, which is surprising but obviously he has work to do.
And Gaskell, well, pfft
Corey Hall gets a bit of a touch up here, which is surprising but obviously he has work to do.
And Gaskell, well, pfft
I was surprised too. With people mentioning Lineham I was surprised that Lineham actually got left in some horrid situations through no or little fault of his own.
I like Hall and he will be a class centre but his naivety was on show and he made wrong decisions and choices vs Wigan. If he learns from them and improves from it then that’s all we ask.
Gaskell is just clearly not a full back plain and simple. Even at 6 he’s suspect for a pivotal role (for example vs Catalans kicking it out of play on last). Not every player is cut out to be a pivot and Gaskell just isn’t. That’s no slight on his effort but he’s only played well at centre so if we have any sense that’s where he will play unless emergency requires he fills in.
The issue is we haven’t recruited a quality 6 but I do see some potential in Smith. He will likely need a few games though.
It’s going to take some serious reviewing by the coaching team and some individual and group sessions to address what’s going wrong and how it gets fixed. There will also need to be difficult conversations. I’m sure Gaskell will want to give his all and be pushing to show he can do it at halfback but the coach sometimes has to make the call.
I still want to believe in this group of players though and the coach but we must come out and smash Hudds to bits when they rock up at Belle Vue.