Quote ="SmokeyTA"dont get me wrong, I think we have some obvious problems. But I also dont think other teams are full of supermen.
Take Wigan for example, Their strength as a whole squad last season somehow culminated in a fairly superfluous player like Richards becoming MoS. If im preparing a side to face Wigan, im not doing anything to prepare for Pat Richards. Its their structures that made him look like a world beater. I wouldnt take any of their back line over ours (bar maybe Tomkins over Webb) but theirs looked better last year because of their dominance up front and the work they made teams defensively left more space out wide.
Thats where we are falling down, Senior is probably a little past it, but he is still better than either of Wigans centres, he embarrassed Shenton last year, and im not scared of Chris Bridge. But Senior is struggling because the work he is doing is against fresh defences with little space and generally in his own half. You give him the space and work that Shenton or Carmont has been doing and he will look a lot better.'"
For me Wigan last season were a classic example of a team that played well. You can have a squad of superstars but if they don't gel as a team you'll win nothing. It's also a reason why come the end of the season all the supposedly best players get picked for internationals and don't look half as good as they did for their club because it was the team that made them look good, not them that made the team good.
