Re: Worriers getting excited : Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:18 am  

The thing with Wigans pack is, they are all decent solid hard working props but there are no impact fiery nutcase props, they all seem a bit like they look after kittens after they finish training.

Re: Worriers getting excited : Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:20 am  

Horatio Yed wrote:

The thing with Wigans pack is, they are all decent solid hard working props but there are no impact fiery nutcase props, they all seem a bit like they look after kittens after they finish training.

Not gonna lie, that's a statement that sounds like it's come from Saddened.

Re: Worriers getting excited : Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:22 am  

Horatio Yed wrote:

The thing with Wigans pack is, they are all decent solid hard working props but there are no impact fiery nutcase props, they all seem a bit like they look after kittens after they finish training.

Fancy Carvell, Westwood and hopefully Morley to really take it do them Yed.

Smash them hard early on and set it up for the best attack in the league.

This game is going to be scary

Re: Worriers getting excited : Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:30 am  

The Way Benjamin W is playing at the moment i don't think i'd want to take the very first set up with him running at me.
He's playing like a man possessed and putting in some huge hits. Like you say Garreth and Adrian will take it to them.

Louis, Simon and Benjamin H are also capable of some big hits, scary pack we have.

Re: Worriers getting excited : Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:31 am  

Horatio Yed wrote:

The thing with Wigans pack is, they are all decent solid hard working props but there are no impact fiery nutcase props, they all seem a bit like they look after kittens after they finish training.

I agree. Bench impact doesn't exist at our club I don't think. But they are (and I'm not pointing this out as a dig) a Grand Final winning pack and currently top of the table so they must be making up for the lack of a impact leader by being a proper good solid unit!

For me it's a no loss move for Wigan. If he turns out poor we can afford to drop him because he is only a short term signing. If he plays well then you cannot substitute for experience of having won an NRL Grand Final and played a couple of origin games. If he's does as well as Quentin Pongia did in his short stint here I'll be delighted!

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Worriers getting excited : Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:34 am  

thing is about Benjamin W, and all the other hits we're doing at the moment, no other pack is standing up to us, that hit that he did on Keith M last week, not only did he put him on his booty westwood was up on the ball and as Keith was up and walking back he got an arm in the throat, from Benjamin who was prepared for retribution of some kind, what did keith do, mouthed off slightly and went and got back in teh defensive line.

Likewise versus Saints RL the other week, our captain Adrian did that high tackle on Louis M-S, and what did the Saints RL players do? love all.

you'd expect Joel T to do so, but he's not hiding and trying to bully three quarters now.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Worriers getting excited : Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:34 am  

Bilko wrote:

I agree. Bench impact doesn't exist at our club I don't think. But they are (and I'm not pointing this out as a dig) a Grand Final winning pack and currently top of the table so they must be making up for the lack of a impact leader by being a proper good solid unit!

For me it's a no loss move for Wigan. If he turns out poor we can afford to drop him because he is only a short term signing. If he plays well then you cannot substitute for experience of having won an NRL Grand Final and played a couple of origin games. If he's does as well as Quentin Pongia did in his short stint here I'll be delighted!

Secretly play with a transferable blood disease?

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Worriers getting excited : Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:36 am  

Horatio Yed wrote:

The Way Benjamin W is playing at the moment i don't think i'd want to take the very first set up with him running at me.
He's playing like a man possessed and putting in some huge hits. Like you say Garreth and Adrian will take it to them.

Louis, Simon and Benjamin H are also capable of some big hits, scary pack we have.

But again, i hark back to last year, Jeffrey L was being hyped up to be the scary enforcer that the wigan pack was lacking last year, hasn't happened, but, you can't deny its an efficient and effective set of forwards that gets the job done.

Re: Worriers getting excited : Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:38 am  

Again it wasn't a criticism, like i said they are all solid and do a job but none of them have a fear factor, in fact the hardest hitter you have is Thomas L a hooker/scrum half, Benjamin Cross is/should be the nutter, especially when he faces up against his mate at Saints if you play them in the PO.

Re: Worriers getting excited : Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:40 am  

Fantastic Mr Catpiss wrote:

Secretly play with a transferable blood disease?

If he plays as well as Quentin Pongia did, thats fine by me! None of my business!