Quote: clifford "Regardless of peoples negative opinion of our pack - we still won last night and last year beat teams such as Leeds, Wire and Saints who on paper all have a better pack than ours. Our packs potential and ability always come into question on here . I hear many people blaming the pack when Wigan lose however you could argue that the likes of Carvell and Morley consistently punch holes in defence but it does not produce wins all the time. Fielden has lost his shine, Coley (who takes a lot of stick on here) is nothing outstanding but is solid and gets through a lot of work, Feka is an impact prop etc however as a unit they work pretty well for Wigan. Now all of them are fighting for places with O'Carroll and other youngsters hot on their heels, not to mention all of them are in the shop window for either Wigan or other teams next year so we should see an overall improvement in all of their games.'"
Cracking post mate and something i've been feeling for a long time. There are a few other team's packs might have 1 (2 at a stretch) individuals that I feel would be an improvement over what we have, but as a unit of players I think our pack matches any in the league when it's not dropping the ball
Lost track of the amount of times i've rewatched highlights of our losses now, and i've still not found one that was due to the pack not providing enough go forward. I'll say it again, bulk of our games lost were due to giving away too many penalties and errors either defusing our own attack or putting us under repeat pressure in defence, combined with a poor medium to long range kicking game not delivering what we needed to relieve the pressure.
. He admitted that it was about finding the right balance of running in as hard as possible but keeping hold of the ball and as first receiver the last thing you need is to drop it on the first play. He also defended himself and his fellow props by saying people want more aggression from our pack but most of them are already topping the penalty chart and he felt that again it was a hard balance to strike.
