Quote: Jim Jalfrezi "I'm aware that you know your stuff YR, but I'm still baffled as to why you said Smith ran the game that night.
I've seen plenty of halfbacks run games, and to me, he certainly didn't blow me away in that particular game.
Like I said, it's all down to lack of tackling at the moment, and as the backs are in disarray at present, with injuries and people playing out of position, it's going to be really difficult to stop teams wading thru our defensive line.'"
Was there a better halfback on display in the game that night? IMO, no. For me while there was a superior individual performer on the night in Mal Alker (and also IMO Stapleton), Smith was at the centre of pretty much everything we did well in attack in that particular game.
Quite agree on the second point, which has reminded me about a very worrying point from Friday night. The defence in the last few games has been breached mainly when on their own line & as a result I was taking comfort from the thought that if we could sort out our line defence then we'd stop shipping big points every week. On Friday however Wigan were flooding through our line with frightening regularity from all over the park. We MUST improve defensively but it's certainly not going to be sorted out overnight & I fear a lot more pain for us before it gets sorted.
Stapleton
