Who cares about Wigan on here anyway?

This is turning into a Wigan halfback thread.

It was the O/P who mentioned the Wigan halfbacks.

YAWN YAWN YAWN

Saints moved a full back playing scrum half to full back.

Saints sent their useless unneeded player off to Salford.

HTH

Thanks, so your first choice 1, 9 and 13 were all playing as I said.

Who mentioned Gaskell? Gary Wheeler is our first choice 6 when fit and will be again when he's fit.

What a thread.

As already stated, we are also missing Lomax from full back and Roby from the pack. Our two most dangerous players that are playing in pivot positions.

On the flip side, at least wigan have a first choice half back pairing. I'm not even sure we know what ours is - Wilkin and Wheeler?

Wigan will fare better than us, because they play with a very strong structure that they've established over the past two years, so the new lads will be able to just slip into the moves. As well as having first choice half backs, they probably even have second choce half backs to back them up. They also have a pack that plays as a unit instead of carrying 2 or 3 ambivilent old men.

Which is, in a round about way, the underlying point I was hinting at.

Managed to struggle through

And just to show it can be done, we also managed without the vital full back, hooker, loose forward and top points scoring winger tonight.

I'll admit it was only Widnes and it was a struggle.

Yes you had a few key positions missing but you still had a fair few experienced, good players. Lose a few more of your pack players along with all the key players you had missing tonight and then it's a fair comparison.

Come on 1, 6, 7, 9, and 13
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Top points scorer, then Farrell, Flower (our most consistent prop this year) Dudson and Prescott.

Fourteen players who came through the academy in tonights team. Only two overseas players.
You can't get near that no matter how you whinge.

The homegrown players is commendable, I wouldn't question that. To say your injury situation is comporable to what we've had to deal with at times this season is laughable though.

Rather than wasting time blooding the likes of Powell, I think Wigan would have done better playing Kris Radlinski and Harrison Hansen in the halves.

Amazing what happens if you keep the same structure week in week out.

Half decent team would have torn Wigan to strips tonight.

But they didn't, did they? They won. With an injury hit team. Away. Our injury hit team with round pegs in square holes got beat by them. At home.