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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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?
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| Quote ="Nick NJ"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.
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| Quote ="stillinthepast"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.
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| Daily Star.....it must be reet
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| 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."
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| 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
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| We needed a Jamie Peacock, James Graham, Stu Fielden (in his prime) type player on Saturday.
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| You guys are very fickle for me Wigan and Wire are and have been all season the 2 stand out SL teams ,recently Wigan have been the team to beat , probably before Saturday the team nobody could beat , you have been playing very good fast rugby in Shaun Wane you have a coach that hates losing ,a couple of your players didnt seem fit on Saturday , but you will still finish as League Leaders thats my prediction anyway , you have a very good team , some of the best youngsters coming through , nowt to worry about , a Wigan v Wire Grand Final a great prospect , and a great spectacle for RL .
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| a Wigan v Wire Grand Final a great prospect
Maybe, But not if it is no contest and we roll over again. God knows why they are sh*t scared of Warrington. It's embarrassing.
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| Nothing new in the Soward story. Same as two weeks ago.
Looks like Martin Richards has been asked for some column inches minutes before going to press and he dug up a previous article.
We do need a rough house prop but there aren't many around.
A couple of years ago on here we were suggesting Carl Webb. Webb retired and perhaps due to the sanitisation of the game players like him are now gone, bar Morley.
Last Saturday Smith had a fully fit squad and a choice of forwards, Wane didn't. SW has had forwards on the sick list with Fielden out all season, Dudson out, Prescott only playing 8 or 9 games. You can't have players, especially props out and not miss them. If Wire had Morley, Carvell and Hill missing he wouldn't have much left in the props dept.
Wane took a risk with experienced players who weren't fit instead of younger men who are. Crosby and Spencer would have been worked over big time by the Wire props and maybe got injured. He played the best team he had and they were well beaten.
As for Sam at 6. Yeah great! He then has to make 26 tackles a game instead of 3. Wire forwards would have targeted him all 80 mins and Sam doesn't have the hit tackle that Tommy does. Played at 6 last Saturday and Sam could have got injured.
Not into the blame game on this one, Wane played the best he had given the circumstances.
Perhaps the players are responsible for the performance, not the coach?
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| Quote ="fleabag"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.'"
Your right a couple of Chris Hill’s in our front row would have been nice!
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| Quote ="Father Ted"As for Sam at 6. Yeah great! He then has to make 26 tackles a game instead of 3. Wire forwards would have targeted him all 80 mins and Sam doesn't have the hit tackle that Tommy does. Played at 6 last Saturday and Sam could have got injured.
Not into the blame game on this one, Wane played the best he had given the circumstances.
Perhaps the players are responsible for the performance, not the coach?'"
I'm not calling for Tomkins to move from fullback but this reasoning baffles me - 'We can't play Tomkins at 6 because he might get hurt'.
Finch is the most important player in the team and the most influential player in the team so by that reasoning surely we shouldn't be playing him at 6 either because he might get hurt?
Tomkins played 6 for a while and I don't remember him picking up many injuries if any. In fact he seemed to pick up more knocks playing fullback!
It's rugby league for heavens sake! You play, you get hit, you get hurt, you get up. If Sam isn't capable of taking a few hits or making a few tackles like he would playing 6 then no way should he be man of steel or considered one of the best players in the game.
I happen to think he's a lot tougher than others seem to, although given that he refuses to return any kicks and always gives the ball to Charnley killing any opportunity to counter attack right from the kick I could be wrong.
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| Quote ="charlie caroli"You guys are very fickle
for me Wigan and Wire are and have been all season the 2 stand out SL teams ,recently Wigan have been the team to beat , probably before Saturday the team nobody could beat , you have been playing very good fast rugby in Shaun Wane you have a coach that hates losing ,a couple of your players didnt seem fit on Saturday , but you will still finish as League Leaders thats my prediction anyway , you have a very good team , some of the best youngsters coming through , nowt to worry about , a Wigan v Wire Grand Final a great prospect , and a great spectacle for RL .'"
And breath !
All that paragraph is just the one sentence.
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| Sam at 6 used to make 20-30 tackles a game he now makes 2-8.
Keep him at 1 as that gives him the attacking options rather than him spending his time and energy making tackles.
I said he "Might" get hurt not that he would and that was the reason for keeping him at 1.
Full Back keeps him fresh and able to run at tired men, at 6 doesn't.
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| Tomkins best game v Wire was at 6.
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| Quote ="Father Ted"Sam at 6 used to make 20-30 tackles a game he now makes 2-8.
Keep him at 1 as that gives him the attacking options rather than him spending his time and energy making tackles.
I said he "Might" get hurt not that he would and that was the reason for keeping him at 1.
Full Back keeps him fresh and able to run at tired men, at 6 doesn't.'"
Yes but the OP has a point. Given that TL, Finch and Powell were hurt I believe our next best option was for Sam to go 6. IMO Sam should be our emergency 6 from now on.
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| Quote ="jinkin jimmy"Yes but the OP has a point. Given that TL, Finch and Powell were hurt I believe our next best option was for Sam to go 6. IMO Sam should be our emergency 6 from now on.'"
It's certainly a fair point. Wane said we had no other option but to play an unfit Finch, we clearly did. We had a player who was considered the best stand off in the league before he was moved to fullback.
I can understand why people wouldn't want Sam moved from fullback and long term there's no reason to do that. He's the best attacking threat in the league at fullback when the team is playing well. However when the team needs cover in the halves I can't see why he wouldn't be one of the best options available.
Jack Murphy showed signs that he would be competent at the very least when given a chance at fullback, so we have cover in that position.
I just don't get this idea that Wane had no other option.
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| Quote ="fleabag"And breath !
All that paragraph is just the one sentence.'"
From your avatar pic , id say keep your eye pealed .Its hard being a Cowboy in ROCHDALE .
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| Quote ="Father Ted"Sam at 6 used to make 20-30 tackles a game he now makes 2-8.
Keep him at 1 as that gives him the attacking options rather than him spending his time and energy making tackles.'"
cherry.pie was right. The idea he should not play 6 because he might have to tackle more is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever read.
Quote I said he "Might" get hurt not that he would and that was the reason for keeping him at 1.
Full Back keeps him fresh and able to run at tired men, at 6 doesn't.'"
He might get hurt playing 1 as well. Or is he supposed to run away form making any tacke these days? It's Rugby League!
He started out as a 6 and having to tackle is no reason not to play him there if needs must. Given Lockers is just plain wrong at 6 its about time Wane stopped playing him there. If that means Sam to 6 until people are fit then that is what he needs to do.
The pack getting beat v Wire is irrelevant anyway (as a reason not to play him at 6 as opposed to how it affected the Wire result) in that this happens occasionally and the half backs have to put up with it and deal with it as best they can.
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| Sammy Powell isn't injured he was the 18th man but didn't make the team when finch passed a very late fitness test. Wane wrongly told the press he was out with a back injury!
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| Inglis = fullback, barba= fullback, bowen=fullback, Slater=Fullback.
The NRL is the toughest teamsport in the world, where defence is king, and there is nothing between the top 10 sides, and the position that has the most influence to crack these defences? The fullback. The ozzies sussed this years ago, wake up you unconverted children, SAM PLAYS AT FULLBACK END OF
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