Quote: Last Son of Wigan "Talk of Roberts back is ridiculous. It would seem fans are still holding on thinking he's capable of retaining his former glory which lasted for about 8 games. Don't forget he was bad before his good spell, so it reality he's just returned to his former level since he's been a Wigan player.
People who cry out for Roberts return do it at the expense of moving Sam from his a position which he's proven to be a massive success at, to disrupt a settling halfback partnership and at the cost of removing our best tactical kicker in deacon.
Alll for a player who has had 10 good games in his whole time at Wigan.'"
As everyone is saying Sam has been our most consistant attacker by far, but all in broken field running. This he can still do from standoff when defenders cant confront him in numbers because they have to maintain the defensive line.
At present when he fields the ball from a kick he is confronted with a wall of defenders who know that he has few options to pass to a supporting player. This means that he is having to take more of an hammering than he should be expected to,remember he doesn't have the build of a Richards to absorb these hits.
At times in a strange way he reminds me of a young Shaun Briscoe who was to brave for his own good, who because of his bravery got some fearfull batterings about the head.
Sam at standoff would give us much needed pace in the halfs,which at present is so lacking.
