Sean O'Loughlin as we all know is a massive human being and is well suited to playing in the front row as he carries the ball well and as other people have mentioned on this post has great ball handling skills close to the line, he also broke the line on at least one occasion if I'm not wrong last night? The biggest plus for Wigan would be he will be interchanged so his risk of injury I would imagine is decreased by some margin. It could well prove to be a massive plus and great decision by Wane.

He can clearly play both, hence playing on the edge and in the middle, and also an outside back when needs must.

If you watched our games last season you'll see he featured in all positions mentioned.

If you actually don't know the difference I can explain. Otherwise I'll not waste my time.

It's never too late to learn so educate me.

My only issue is will he do the same amount of drives as a standard starting prop?

If he will then don't see a problem but if he doesnt then it will put a lot of pressure on the other prop / centres to take the ball in which will inpact the amount of other work they can do........ centres - Score tries and create final pass for tries

Many moons ago the scrum was contested with the ball feed directly between the two packs, similar to what you see in union. The props would prop up the scrum and hooker who's job it was to 'hook the ball' with their feet obtaining possession for their team.

Nowadays the scrum feed rarely sees a put in between the two front rows, thus meaning no 'hooking' takes place. Usually we see the ball feeder feed the ball into the second row of the scrum etc.

However the 9 plays out of acting dummy half, when the player is tackled his duty (usually) is to retrieve the ball after an uncontested tackle to feed out from dummy half.