Quote: Last Son of Wigan "This is undoubtedly going to be an arguable point but in my personal opinion Tommy is one of the fundamental problems at Wigan.
Yes we have issues with Fielden (and Feka highlighted yesterday) but for me Tommy is a big issue.
Yes he is a good RL player, he scores and puts himself about in defense, but he isn't a 7. He lacks the ability to create with ball in hand. He often doesn't form a partnership with Sam and often fails to get the ball out wide to the attacking backs. He doesn't control the flow of the game or organise the team in attack as a good 7 will.
It's a difficult situation, he is a top player and offers alot on the field just not as a controlling 7. From here we often look flat in attack and void of ideas.
In our backs with have 2 quality centres, but they need to be shown a gap by a ball playing 7, give Carmont or Gleeson half a chance and they'll do the rest.
I wouldn't raise this point other than I believe with a true ball playing organising 7 we would look a very different team. We have great backs, an abundance of young promising forwards and a top quality 6, we now just need that right player to lead the team in attack.
For me yesterday Sam looked tired from trying to create on his own with Tommy not stepping up. Lockers looked more dangerous with ball in hand than Tommy did all game.'"
I totally agree. In broken field and against a tired defence Tommy is awesome. However, running set plays and kicking he is well down the table in terms of Super League scrum halves. Cut Riddell and bring in a stand-off to let Sam play 7 with Tommy and Micky Mc as hookers.
