Quote ="tonyanl"A good kicker, yes, takes the team round the park,yes, but a top 4 halfback, no.Really good halves, e.g. Briers,Edwards, Long, Dobson, Schofield, etc. also take the ball to the line, hold the ball, time the pass and put players through the gap, make breaks and support breaks, and score tries. Holdsworth is ordinary at all these things. In fact when putting on a move it often breaks down because of him - this happened twice in the warm up at Cas! He is an improvement, but not the answer - how many tries have we scored this season?!
I`m amazed people still wonder where Horne will fit in. He is still a class act, until injured our best player by a mile - how we have missed him. He should be the first named half back on the teamsheet. Even his kicking game, until this season a weakness I admit, has improved enormously.
Are all the players at Wigan naturally gifted players, or are all the teams drilled and drilled again in passing and running lines? Whoever plays, the ball still seems to zip down the line, whereas we seem to break down so often. I wonder what we are doing in training!
anl.'"
Just to recap
you think Holdsworth isn't a top half back and you provide evidence of this by him making an error in hist 1st pre season game bearing in mind he didn't start pre season with the squad till early new year?
Horney has played more games this season so surely he has to take responsibilty for our lack of tries this season?
holdsworth has only played 11 games with his new team after only arriving in january and suffered a extremely serious injury which affected him in 2 or 3 of those games too
If holdsworth isn't a top Half can you explain why he keeps getting picked for the Exiles
