Re: Speed and Agility at Full Back : Sat Jul 14, 2012 7:48 pm  

McClennan wrote:

So you'd have Wellens over Tomkins then?

NO! But boy was it funny.

Re: Speed and Agility at Full Back : Sat Jul 14, 2012 8:09 pm  

I thought Hardaker looked extremely good at fullback. He outshone Samkins today IMO, and he has hardly any experience at that level.

Re: Speed and Agility at Full Back : Sun Jul 15, 2012 12:31 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

I thought Hardaker looked extremely good at fullback. He outshone Samkins today IMO, and he has hardly any experience at that level.

1 game and Ratkins was still the most dangerous pie eater in attack. He looks like creating something everytime he has the ball in hand even if his defence was iffy today. If you took Ratkins out of that team today Leeds would have cruised the win

Re: Speed and Agility at Full Back : Sun Jul 15, 2012 7:33 am  

No1 Saint wrote:

1 game and Ratkins was still the most dangerous pie eater in attack.

I wasn't that impressed by him tbh. He was their most dangerous player, yes, but only because nobody else was at home and Leuluai wasn't on the field. Hardaker still outshone him IMO.

Re: Speed and Agility at Full Back : Mon Jul 16, 2012 6:45 am  

No1 Saint wrote:

1 game and Ratkins was still the most dangerous pie eater in attack. He looks like creating something everytime he has the ball in hand even if his defence was iffy today. If you took Ratkins out of that team today Leeds would have cruised the win

The run he did in the 1st half from dummy half was absolutely sensational.

Re: Speed and Agility at Full Back : Mon Jul 16, 2012 10:03 am  

Offside Monkey wrote:

The run he did in the 1st half from dummy half was absolutely sensational.

Aye. For a minute I thought I was going to see a try as good as Hanley's for Bradford against Featherstone. I don't often bemoan the fact when a pie gets tackled but I almost wanted him to go the length of the field that one time just so we could see an ace try.

Re: Speed and Agility at Full Back : Mon Jul 16, 2012 7:38 pm  

No1 Saint wrote:

1 game and Ratkins was still the most dangerous pie eater in attack. He looks like creating something everytime he has the ball in hand even if his defence was iffy today. If you took Ratkins out of that team today Leeds would have cruised the win

Hard to disagree with that.

Re: Speed and Agility at Full Back : Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:58 am  

Tomkins makes Wigan very difficult to number up against in defence, because he moves across the back of the attacking line so quickly. Even when he is not making breaks himself he is making room for people like Carmont.

Re: Speed and Agility at Full Back : Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:23 am  

Dux wrote:

Tomkins makes Wigan very difficult to number up against in defence, because he moves across the back of the attacking line so quickly. Even when he is not making breaks himself he is making room for people like Carmont.

That's probably the reason so many gaps appear about three channels in for the 2nd rowers, because the defence are too eager to get out to number up on Stomkins.

Re: Speed and Agility at Full Back : Tue Jul 17, 2012 7:11 pm  

McClennan wrote:

So you'd have Wellens over Tomkins then?

Tough call, I don;t think Wellens would have Mr Wane as his adopted dad, even for a short spell like a weekend for instance.