Quote: nohalfbacks "I made it clear in my post that Wigan had their chances and didn't take them hence no complaints from me and certainly not ungracious in defeat. My point was about Saints poor attacking options which had nothing to with not having recognised halfbacks. If they had moved the ball wide when they had clear overlaps then they would have won comfortably.'"
But that's the point of halfbacks isn't it? When a team has its halfbacks they know when to go wide and they line up the players to ensure the ball goes wide. We had a halfback pairing of a second rower and a fullback who was supposed to play fullback but had to change thanks to our one remaining halfback leaving the field. We then had to put a winger at fullback, a centre on the wing and a prop in the centres. All the time we were playing with a centre at loose forward. Let's see how many matches Wigan win with that combination, especially when it's foisted on them two minutes into a grand final, and then come back and tell me that Wigan should have gone wide when they had overlaps.
Jeez. Halfbacks are trained to create the overlaps. Second rowers don't even know to look.
Wigan looked so good precisely because they had halfbacks on the pitch doing the job that halfbacks do. We had nobody to do that at all.