Quote Horatio Yed="Horatio Yed"Regardless of the reasons for ours and Saints tries the point still stands, teams are looking at your right side and thinking "i fancy a few points on that wing, personally i do think Charnley is your weak link in defence.
I'm sure you guys have the game with us on DVD or recorded on TV etc, look at Kings try 2nd half, he actually runs over Charnely, he doesn't try to go round him because he thinks why risk going in to touch when the guy won't tackle me.
Great going forward i'll concede.
How he got man of the match nominations for what equated to a shimy that led to a try and a try i'll never know, he did bugger all else'"
Watching the Wigan team week in week out it becomes obvious that he's no worse than the other defenders on the right hand side. The way Wigan defend means that the winger is always likely to be left with some very difficult decision to make because he'll be left dealing with an overlap quite often.
Wigan's weak link in defence is Deacon without a doubt mainly because his decision making isn't great. He also has to be moving forward in order to put enough power in his tackles to bring a man down meaning he's more likely to rush at a player and a quick pass will usually create an overlap.
Yes, Matt King ran right over Charnley but he's done the same thing to many players in his career. He's run through better wingers than any that England have to call upon. King just happens to be a fantastic player.
Charnley didn't really do much wrong for Foster's first try. They created a bit of space and Joel Tomkins allowed Meli to run on his outside. Joel does this quite often because he likes to grab the shirt collar and try to swing the man into touch. He's done this successfully a few times but it does mean that the player is likely to get on his outside. It would have appeared to Charnley as if Joel had been beaten so he had to go for Meli, who was clever enough to slip the pass out wide.
For Foster's second try it was Sam Tomkins who was at fault along with Deacon. Deacon misread it slightly and created an overlap. Joel took his man as did Charnley. The ball managed to come to Foster out wide but Sam Tomkins went for Meli too instead of moving to cover the wing.
Any team could have conceded those tries though. Split second decision making in an important game is something that you tend to get right more as you get older and more experienced.
