Quote: ninearches "You mention Vaughan who doesn't look half as effective as when he first came . Is he injured or has he just bought into the psyche of the Warrington club ? Going with the flow ?'"
We can theorise, yes he’s not at the point where he was last year, but there are a number of variables in that. There’s no doubt that the backs are being given more work this year than last. We regularly see Dufty break 20 carries and 200 meters. 7 times in SL games alone, with the fewest meters being in round 1 and 2 where you could argue he was bedding into his new instruction. His average is double that of round one and two. Ashton and Thewlis are up at 150 and 100 meters respectively most weeks, along with King. So the backs are taking up more of those carries, as they should in my opinion, plus the now almost ritual-like 4th tackle carry for Duffy taking away another chance for the forwards. We have to take that into account, it’s 1/5 of the set unavailable to the pack, likely 3/5 if we receive the ball from a kick.
There’s also less dependency on him. Harrison, good as he was last year, has been much better this year. Philbin had been better too, pre-injury.
We've made the most meters in the competition, so there’s no void to be filled as such generally speaking. But there are games that we struggle for meters and to create momentum. He's not that bowling ball player, never has been, so I don’t see any drop off as such, more of an adjustment to how we operate.
There are vulnerabilities in our team, but Vaughan isn’t one of them. There’s no story here, still.
