LMS, 'Boof' Laffranchi & Pack stats : Sat Mar 30, 2013 12:37 pm
The pack stats from the game:Crosby 120m 15 carries 8m per carry 21 tackles 2 missed tackles
Flower 100m 11 carries 9.09m per carry 27 tackles 1 missed tackles
Tuson 56m 10 carries 5.60m per carry 16 tackles 3 misssed tackles
Farrell 143m 20 carries 7.15m per carry 40 tackles 1 missed tackle
O'Loughlin 60m 13 carries 4.61m per carry 39 tackles 2 missed tackles
Taylor 112m 13 carries 8.62m per carry 27 tackles 1 missed tackle
Hughes 53m 8 carries 6.63m per carry 12 tackles 2 missed tackles
Burke 24m 3 carries 8m per carry 13 tackles 0 missed tackles
Clough 105m 19 carries 5.53m per carry 25 tackles 3 missed tackles
Laffranchi 74m 14 carries 5.29m per carry 22 tackles 2 missed tackles
LMS 58m 9 carries 6.44m per carry 25 tackles 3 missed tackles
Manu 55m 10 carries 5.5m per carry 4 tackles 1 missed tackles
Walker 51m 13 carries 3.92m per carry 21 tackles 2 missed tackles
Soliola 89 metres 15 carries 5.93m per carry 17 tackles 1 missed tackle
Flanagan 63m 14 carries 4.5m per carry, 21 tackles 3 missed tackles
Walmsley 174m 17 carries 10.24m per carry 23 tackles 1 missed tackle
Overall pack:
Wigan 668m 93 carries 7.18m per carry 195 tackles 12 missed tackles
Saints 669m 111 carries 6.03m per carry 158 tackles 16 missed tackles
Our 3 more experienced forwards in LMS, Laffranchi and Clough are pathetic in terms of their go forward. For me Laffranchi doesn't do enough, he clearly isn't a prop forward and like Hohaia whoever recruited him needs to be removed from the role of recruiting next time. Against a pack like that fielded by Wigan, Laffranchi should have had a field day. He's a 32 year (Supposedly in his prime) forward with a career CV including 200+ NRL games, State of Origin and playing for Australia and yet he was bullied by a group of Wigan forwards who bar O'Loughlin (Who was clearly injured) are all very young. It's not good enough and if anything proves our current overseas crop in Laffranchi, Perry and Hohaia are amongst our weakest players. None of them should be at the club next season, if 'Boof' gets another year there is something very wrong at the club.
LMS's stats show what I thought watching it, he doesn't have the stamina to be a 60 minute workhorse prop. He needs to be playing 15 minutes each half and told to really rip in for those minutes. He had a great season when we played at Widnes and always made an impact when he came on. This season so far he looks pretty feeble. Clough too, should be contributing more metres than that against such an inexperienced pack.
Walmsley stands out like a sore thumb, as does Farrell for Wigan. Forget this talk of bedding him in, give him more responsibility now, he's clearly up to it.