I was saying last night that my main issue with Leuluai at hooker is that he's an 80 minute player. As good as McIlorum is, he isn't nearly as good as Tommy and when Leuluai leaves the field, our intensity often does drop.

I disagree with you though that Leuluai has been a lot better for us at hooker than scrum half. I think he is equally as good in both roles but the fact he is off the field for as much as 30 minutes when playing at 9 leads me to think he should be playing at 7. Only a few months ago Tommy won the Harry Sunderland trophy from scrum half too.

For the rest of this season and when (if) all of our forwards are fit at the same time resting McIlorum and playing a four forward bench is certainly an option and maybe our best when playing bigger packs i.e. Wire in the cup.

For next season, the new coach has some big decisions to make re. where best to play Leuluai and Sam? For me we're going to need a hooker with Finch and Leuluai in the halves. For what it's worth, I also think Leuluai and Finch will complement each other better than Deacon and Finch too.

What is it with the forums dislike of Mcllorum? He makes it to international hooker and he's still not good enough, ffs. He's a cracking player who does a very good job in the team, there have been games where Wigan have scored more points with him at hooker than without.

A certain game at Old Trafford springs to mind!

He's no world beater but he's as hard as nails and is a very valuable member of the squad. He's a cracking player to have around in big, high intensity games.

Very much so. I don't understand the negative comments either. He's a different style of hooker to Tommy, but both are equally valuable.

and that's exactly what we need, two diffrent styles of hooker keeps the opposition thinking rather than having two of the same style or one on for the full 80

The hooker rotation worked well with no drop when Mc came on, if anything the extra game time seemed to affect Roby who was noticeable by his absence last night and its not often you can say that