Re: Let's see just how vital first choice half-backs are... : Wed May 15, 2013 6:23 am  

What a rubbish thread.

As already stated, we are also missing Lomax from full back and Roby from the pack. Our two most dangerous players that are playing in pivot positions.

On the flip side, at least wigan have a first choice half back pairing. I'm not even sure we know what ours is - Wilkin and Wheeler?

Wigan will fare better than us, because they play with a very strong structure that they've established over the past two years, so the new lads will be able to just slip into the moves. As well as having first choice half backs, they probably even have second choce half backs to back them up. They also have a pack that plays as a unit instead of carrying 2 or 3 ambivilent old men.

Re: Let's see just how vital first choice half-backs are... : Wed May 15, 2013 9:00 am  

Offside Monkey wrote:

Wigan will fare better than us, because they play with a very strong structure that they've established over the past two years, so the new lads will be able to just slip into the moves. As well as having first choice half backs, they probably even have second choce half backs to back them up. They also have a pack that plays as a unit instead of carrying 2 or 3 ambivilent old men.

Which is, in a round about way, the underlying point I was hinting at.

Re: Let's see just how vital first choice half-backs are... : Sat May 18, 2013 7:03 pm  

Managed to struggle through

Re: Let's see just how vital first choice half-backs are... : Fri Jun 07, 2013 11:39 pm  

And just to show it can be done, we also managed without the vital full back, hooker, loose forward and top points scoring winger tonight.

I'll admit it was only Widnes and it was a struggle.

Re: Let's see just how vital first choice half-backs are... : Fri Jun 07, 2013 11:52 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

And just to show it can be done, we also managed without the vital full back, hooker, loose forward and top points scoring winger tonight.

I'll admit it was only Widnes and it was a struggle.

Yes you had a few key positions missing but you still had a fair few experienced, good players. Lose a few more of your pack players along with all the key players you had missing tonight and then it's a fair comparison.

Re: Let's see just how vital first choice half-backs are... : Sat Jun 08, 2013 12:00 am  

BackrowSaint wrote:

Yes you had a few key positions missing but you still had a fair few experienced, good players. Lose a few more of your pack players along with all the key players you had missing tonight and then it's a fair comparison.

Come on 1, 6, 7, 9, and 13
plus
Top points scorer, then Farrell, Flower (our most consistent prop this year) Dudson and Prescott.

Fourteen players who came through the academy in tonights team. Only two overseas players.
You can't get near that no matter how you whinge.

Re: Let's see just how vital first choice half-backs are... : Sat Jun 08, 2013 1:06 am  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Come on 1, 6, 7, 9, and 13
plus
Top points scorer, then Farrell, Flower (our most consistent prop this year) Dudson and Prescott.

Fourteen players who came through the academy in tonights team. Only two overseas players.
You can't get near that no matter how you whinge.

The homegrown players is commendable, I wouldn't question that. To say your injury situation is comporable to what we've had to deal with at times this season is laughable though.

Re: Let's see just how vital first choice half-backs are... : Sat Jun 08, 2013 1:19 am  

Rather than wasting time blooding the likes of Powell, I think Wigan would have done better playing Kris Radlinski and Harrison Hansen in the halves.

Amazing what happens if you keep the same structure week in week out.

Re: Let's see just how vital first choice half-backs are... : Sat Jun 08, 2013 1:31 am  

Half decent team would have torn Wigan to strips tonight.

Re: Let's see just how vital first choice half-backs are... : Sat Jun 08, 2013 1:56 am  

But they didn't, did they? They won. With an injury hit team. Away. Our injury hit team with round pegs in square holes got beat by them. At home.