Wilkin is a very influential player in the team, sometimes he makes mistakes with the amount of involvment he has in the majority of the matches we play.
The mistake people make on here is that because he has a no 12 on his back and he packs down in that position they assume he is a second row.......
he is not.
Over the many, many years of watching Saints, the style of open rugby is partly due to our "loose" forwards and I dont mean a no 13. Most of the time presently and historically the Saints style of play is a passing game, this is where we have our back 3 adapting to that passing role.
The only problem Wilkin has is consistency, a couple of games below par and he gets slated on here.