Why should the player's ethnicity matter?

It was a joke aimed at me Grimmy. It wasn't a serious comment although the Powell part of it was I think.

Oh dear Grimmy, another cracks gone over your head, never mind

I agree. Smith needs a good pack to play off. We don’t obviously know how good (or not) the pack will be moving into 2022 but we have no reason to doubt the ability as it stands. I’m really looking forward to seeing Smith and Cust partner up in the halves and seeing whether or not Smith has developed, stagnated or gone backwards.

I know some have their doubts but I don’t doubt for a second any of those actively want him to fail.

Roll on 2022!!

Pressure off Smith initially, Cust and Tommy starting halves. A lot of 2020 games Smith would start on the bench and have a positive impact when he came on.

It could be a strong year for Smith if we take the burden off him. As NSW says above he had a very positive impact at times when coming off the bench and effectively becoming starting half last year did his development no favours. I think Cust will go extremely well and I just hope Tommy has a renaissance last year as often happens. Feeding Smith in for regular game time but without the pressure of expectation he had last year could be the making of him.

Glad, you agree.

Wigan supporters did not see the best of him last season!

Wane Out!!!

Just finished watching the interview.

My word what an inspiration he is. He has me believing we’ll win it in 2022 just from that.