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This is probably a hang over of Wanes edges, middles and pivots that makes me sick to the stomach every time I hear it. Alls it does it completely dumbs down the positions so that it’s 26 players bashing each other all game with no flair, guile or finesse.
It took 100 years to sort out what positions were needed on a field and what those positions did, only for us to narrow it down to just 3 positions. Like you say, that’s our problem, we have too many players playing out of position. I’m not going as far as to distinguish between open side and blind side prop but at least sign props and second rowers rather than just ‘middles’ and we will improve.
Is it not clear Wane was given players to work with rather than saying ‘please can I sign the 7th choice prop from Catalans’ or ‘I’m desperate to bring in that player released by Widnes’ etc? The players are signed by Radlinski and Lenagan and they’ve admitted as much. I doubt Lammy suggested we sign Joe Bullock or Jarrod Sammut and I doubt he’s asked for us to sign Mitch Clark. I’m also sure had Wane been offered George Burgess over Tautai, Liam Watts over Navarette and so on he’d have gladly taken it. Maybe we signed players to a game plan but I’m more inclined to believe we signed them due to the low costs involved. Good quality big forwards cost big money whereas small budget grafters cost far less.
The one thing Wanes detractors promised when he left was this upturn in the quality of the rugby on show. It’s probably been the least entertaining season I can remember as a Wigan supporter so far.
Statistics: Posted by NickyKiss — Mon May 13, 2019 7:15 pm — Replies 80 — Views 3857