lothlorian wrote:
The Lauaki signing, although not filling me with excitement has got me curious. The guy CAN be a human wrecking ball when he runs his weight with aggression. He could turn out to be very good signing. My concern is his discipline. Dudson is a huge lump of a lad and still young. This kid has the potential to lead the Wigan pack for years to come. I was impressed with him for Wales last week. Still very raw but in a coaching/conditioning set up as good as ours he is a very shrewd signing IMO. Those two are gonna add some serious size to our pack. Flower I thought was anonymous last week and I cant see what he'll bring although admittedly I havent seen too much of him. Im wondering if IL managed to make a big name signing whilst he was in Oz recently. Doesnt seem to be much rumour about his recent visit.
I didnt see much of the welsh game but I believe Dudson played well and I've read people say Flower was ordinary. I decided to check the stats and as much as they don't show everything they showed that with the ball the 2 of them made the same amount of carriers and Didson made just 2 metres more then Flower. Also in defence I seem to remember Flower made more tackles but then that's probably expected due to longer minutes.
Like I say stats never tell the full story but it would seem Flower did a reasonable job with room for improvement.
