Re: RD 20 | Wigan Warriors (H) : Thu Jul 21, 2022 3:27 pm  

Seth wrote:

Of course I may be proved wrong later but regardless of the result with the key positions missing key players, with Smith in charge I think we'll still see a performance that demonstrates that the team is moving forwards.

Rohan’s a good coach, but not a miracle worker. Missing our spine we won’t have enough ball in good position to look good.

Re: RD 20 | Wigan Warriors (H) : Thu Jul 21, 2022 3:57 pm  

I'd actually say it's the lack of field position that will cost us. We won't get far enough from our line to defend when they have the ball, or close enough to their line to show what we can(not) do when we have it.

The front row remain our biggest problem, until we fix that you and I could play in the halves and it wouldn't matter.

Re: RD 20 | Wigan Warriors (H) : Thu Jul 21, 2022 4:04 pm  

Shabino wrote:

Rohan’s a good coach, but not a miracle worker. Missing our spine we won’t have enough ball in good position to look good.

You can still lose comfortably (which I think we will) and see that the players on the field have played to their potential.

What I mean is when Agar was in charge key players were missing but you could still say we were awful with Smith I think we could lose by 4 scores and still be able to identify positives and not feel completely hopeless.

But as Batley says we're going to need a creative game plan to gain a balance of territory. I'd be leaning on those 3/4s to get into the middle of the field as much as possible.

Re: RD 20 | Wigan Warriors (H) : Thu Jul 21, 2022 4:59 pm  

Seth wrote:

You can still lose comfortably (which I think we will) and see that the players on the field have played to their potential.

What I mean is when Agar was in charge key players were missing but you could still say we were awful with Smith I think we could lose by 4 scores and still be able to identify positives and not feel completely hopeless.

But as Batley says we're going to need a creative game plan to gain a balance of territory. I'd be leaning on those 3/4s to get into the middle of the field as much as possible.

Could do with an early sending off for Wigan to even it up.

Re: RD 20 | Wigan Warriors (H) : Thu Jul 21, 2022 5:17 pm  

Sir Gregory ParsloeP wrote:

Could do with an early sending off for Wigan to even it up.

Liam Moor is reffing, it'll be us down to 12.

Re: RD 20 | Wigan Warriors (H) : Thu Jul 21, 2022 5:20 pm  

Seth wrote:

Liam Moor is reffing, it'll be us down to 12.

We certainly can’t afford any cards tonight or more suspensions.

Re: RD 20 | Wigan Warriors (H) : Thu Jul 21, 2022 5:33 pm  

We're going with 4 'props' in the 17, behold!

Re: RD 20 | Wigan Warriors (H) : Thu Jul 21, 2022 5:40 pm  

Smith at 6 - don’t mind this actually, he’s a skilful player

At least the bench looks a bit more heavy weight

Re: RD 20 | Wigan Warriors (H) : Thu Jul 21, 2022 6:55 pm  

Looks like the Women did well

Re: RD 20 | Wigan Warriors (H) : Thu Jul 21, 2022 7:00 pm  

Emagdnim13 wrote:

Looks like the Women did well

Await the social media comments after this game 'should put the women in, they'd do better than the men'...