Quote sergeant pepper="sergeant pepper"That's not true tho. I've bit my lip to the oracle that is JonH, but it's absolute BS.
We talk about carrying on the "Wane style". Well anyone who watched the world cup will have seen our props running riot. Burgess was probably the best front rower of the tournament. Has Wane changed his style, or did he finally have access to proper front rowers who can do both? Whichever of these two is true it doesn't paint a pretty picture. 1. We're either carrying on with an old style, or 2. Our recruitment isn't good enough.
For me it's clearly option 2. Truthfully ask yourself this - Are we saying that if Wigan had a JWH, Burgess or Walmsley, we'd be telling them to not make yards and hit the ground early?
Bitter pill to swallow as a fan, but our recruitment in the forwards isn't good enough. I can probably name you 10 failures Vs not many successes on the recruitment front. How can it be that hard? Other teams seem to find gems each year, we get Mago, Singleton, Mitch f-ing Clarke or a new deal for Clubb.'"
It probably is option 2 and if we had JWH, Burgess or Walmsley we may change our style. We don't have those players so we haven't changed our style. Play to your strengths as they say.
Last week, Toby King had the most carries, followed by Marshall, followed by Faz. Pretty obvious from that how we played the game.