rubber duckie wrote:
It’s thanks to Wigans loyalty to Isa and Farrell that we have Nicholson and Wood.
Peet made some noises about both of them not waiting and Wire taking their players.
Unfortunately you cant keep everyone happy all of the time
we had Farrell, Isa, Smithies as our back 3 with Kai-Pearce Paul, Junior Nsemba, Matty Nicholson and James McDonnell all vying for a back row spot
thats some talent to have on your hands all at one point in time. We knew KPP wanted to try his hand in the NRL and Isa probably in his last season, so the opportunities would have opened up poss last year but most likely this. I get some want to back their ability and think they should be 1st team at 18-19 years old, but how many are really that good and stay in the 1st team
then if we fast forward to the end of last season, knowing KPP was going, the club may have had an idea about Smithies but we were then down to Farrell, Isa and Nsemba, so a massively different picture. Ellis has filled the 13 spot well, and we've been unlucky that both Nsemba and Walters have both been injured the 1st part of the season, as they offer something different to Isa and Farrell in terms of size, pace and ball handling skills, and we'd expect one of them to be pushing Isa for his 1st team shirt before the end of this season
