Re: Powell crusher : Sat Apr 16, 2022 11:44 am  

I think with Powell out there's a risk of making so many changes that the good things we've done so far this year could be disrupted. Surely the best thing is to keep as much consistency as possible.

Our best player this season has been Field because he's so dangerous at fullback. Is it essential that he's moved into the halves? No. So keep Field in the position where he's been arguably the best player in Super League so far.

Do we need Cust to play at hooker? No. We may have lost Leuluai for a long time if not the whole season so why move our other first choice half and start playing with a completely untried partnership several weeks in? He's been playing reasonably well at 6 and we need some consistency so surely common sense says Cust plays 6.

We've lost our scrum half, so play our back up scrum half in Smith. We've lost our hooker, so play our back up hooker in O'Neill. Yes, Shorrocks may also have to cover at 9 which I'm not a fan of. I don't think he's terrible there but I think he's been massively underused as a 13 and in his last two games has made positive impacts when he's come on.

There may be a way of moving Cust to 9 late on and then getting Field into the halves for a short while, but in general I don't understand the idea behind completely disrupting the team by moving players who have established themselves in a certain position when we've already lost key players around them.

Re: Powell crusher : Sat Apr 16, 2022 11:45 am  

Tricky Dicky wrote:

Bans kick in fro mnext weekend.

That means Hurrell is also banned for the semi

Good point - hopefully Hopoate and Grace back by then fingers crossed!

Re: Powell crusher : Sat Apr 16, 2022 11:47 am  

Let's not change half the team around for two absentees.

Smith in for Tommy.
O'Neill in for Powell.

With Ellis and Hardaker back (and hopefully Marshall soon) we should be okay.

Re: Powell crusher : Sat Apr 16, 2022 11:51 am  

I’ve got a lot of time for Matty Peet I have to say. He’s a thoroughly likeable bloke and even as a Saints fan I can say that.

Every time I see him interviewed he impressed me. Yesterday he gave no excuses, was very complimentary towards Saints and didn’t defend the Powell tackle, even saying that he hopes Bennison is okay.

There’s no doubt at all that if given time he’ll get Wigan back to the Wigan of old again.

Re: Powell crusher : Sat Apr 16, 2022 11:54 am  

Just seen on Facebook that the disciplinary action doesn't take place until Wednesday meaning all players up before the beak can play Monday.

We all have now seen Peets post match comments, with this in mind do you think he play Powell against Wakefield?

Re: Powell crusher : Sat Apr 16, 2022 11:58 am  

Tricky Dicky wrote:

Bans kick in fro mnext weekend.

That means Hurrell is also banned for the semi

He isn’t. Hurrell will be banned for our games v Cas and Salford.

Re: Powell crusher : Sat Apr 16, 2022 12:13 pm  

Aye, we have Salford and Wire before the semi on the back of Monday’s game.

Re: Powell crusher : Sat Apr 16, 2022 3:00 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Powell will be be banned (rightly so) for Monday, the disciplinary panel meet either today or tomorrow.

Apparently not i have seen that it will be Tuesday

Re: Powell crusher : Sat Apr 16, 2022 3:00 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Powell will be be banned (rightly so) for Monday, the disciplinary panel meet either today or tomorrow.

Apparently not i have seen that it will be Tuesday

Re: Powell crusher : Sat Apr 16, 2022 3:28 pm  

Tricky Dicky wrote:

Bans kick in fro mnext weekend.

That means Hurrell is also banned for the semi

Think he will miss the Castleford and Salford games then back to face you lot in the semi final.