Another question JWP, ive taken on board what you said and it seems that your blaming 3 others players aswell as Penny, i would like your opinion as to why teams are getting no succsess down the left channel in the last 2 games, If what you say is indeed true and im not saying it isn't surely teams would still target the left, seen as King, Louis and Monaghan still play there, yet no tries have been scored, why do you think that is, has Smith already had a major impact or has something else changed

If you get joy scoring under the posts....why start attacking out wide and in particular matt kings wing....

I doubt anyone on the quinns website was calling for their right winger to be dropped because he didnt score a single try in a ten try route......

I did notice on sunday that Grix was more demanding in getting numbers to come across when it looked liked we could be stretched.......and that I think is what Smith was talking about when he says "people can get across and fill holes even when they are shot and theyre brain is telling them they cant".....

So yes its Smiths hard work ethic

grix was also one of very few who tried at The Stoop
he and king held the left side quite well

Against Leeds in the Play-offs.

Smith seems to have changed the way the players set and get back into position, each player was facing the ruck, then looking right then looking left over their shoulder whilst getting on side then checking again when back on side. It was virtually synchronised with all their head movements. Never seen it like that before!

I am led to believe he hasn't seen Penny play in the reserves.

We only conceded 1 try down the left against Catalans and 1 against Wakefield but let's forget that because i don't want to be splitting hairs all afternoon.
I don't go all the reserve matches but ive seen Penny play twice for the reserves this year and i wouldn't say he was a good defender, i understand he needs more experience and so on.
Early in the year (after the Hull friendly) i agreed with you that Penny looked well in defence and had bulked up and became stronger so it's not that im against Penny or want him to fail, if he plays well i have no problem in saying so but i feel his defence needs to improve before he get's back in the 1st team.

Don't know who led you there but they were wrong to do so.

Go on then Wayne Bennett; explain that sweeping generalisation.

Name me wingers you have seen, who have destroyed Penny in a game, ie, run over the top of him, handed him off, bumped him off etc in either the first team or the 21's that gives you the belief that his defence is bad ?

Forget where people have dove in the corner, because he's been caught 5m off the wing etc, as we've covered this, it's the left side defence that's the problem, like it caught King out against Catalans and numerous times last year when he replaced Penny on the wing.

Which games did you got to?

His positional play isn't great, this has been evident in both reserve games that i have seen.

Wakefield and Harlequins.

That's not defence, that's team organisation and knowing your role within that. He's never played in an organised Warrington side, well, in fact he has, two games, last year Saint away, Leeds home. We all thought Jimmy had fixed us, we defended so well, beat Leeds, ran Saints to the brink, how many tries were scored down the left in those games ? How many times was Penny exposed ?

Kevin Penny is more than capable of fitting into a structured Warrington Wolves side, now & again, he'll make an error, all players will. We conceded two tries on Sunday, somebody will be to blame, there's always a root cause, I'm confident he'll be more than capable when he gets his chance.