Well Id say he does the basics very well he takes the ball in hard achieves a quick play the ball more often than not, misses very few tackles and always seems to be helping the other forwards as the third man in when they are struggling with the wrestle. Ive seen the occasional decent offload to pop the backs through a gap so with further progress as he still has many years playing on his side he could be another Sean O'loughlin in 5 or 6 years time. Lets not forget Lockers was also just very good at doing the basics as a young gun and now he's the best forward in England. Players need time to mature their game sometimes and this can only come with game time where then confidence can thrive. Id say he's very lucky to have such a role model to learn his trade from there's probably no better forward to help progress his career with.

I think you should have started the post with the name or names of certain other front rowers as there's definitely far worse and less hard working forwards than Burke at this club.

Good to see the clueless fans re are out again re players being good or not good enough to play for Wigan..... either support the players and coaches or go support another sport or someone else.

It makes me laff the amount of players constantly mentioned as not being good enough to play for Wigan or any other team tbh, obviously they are good enough to play SL or they would be playing in an lower league !!!!! On FB Dan is getting stick as he may be off to the NRL with people calling him a shocking player and not worth a Wigan shirt / not good enough for the NRL well put it this way if he was rubbish why is he an international player ? why has he seemingly gone to the NRL where many UK based players rarely go ? and why did Wigan sign him in the first place if hes clearly as many say rubbish ?

If it is such a simple easy game to play and anyone who plays are that bad, and the coaches are that clueless too a simple question for a couch coaches and players ?

Why are you not a RL player ? why are you not a SL coach?

If it is that easy you do become a SL player and do the job of a SL coach if you can do any better ................

Good response to a pointless thread. The Matty Smith thread kicked off because he's a senior player and had a terrible game against Widnes. If you're going to apply the same mentality to the whole squad, regardless of experience, game time or anything else, you might as well start another 16 simultaneous threads with "is ______ good enough for Wigan?"

That's not a serious suggestion by the way....

For goodness sake, don't say anything positive about anything, or you will be accused of stifling debate.... Foe button is useful, and its confirmed whenever I open certain threads.

Yes I agree with you both. Pacific obviously has an ulterior motive for singling out Burke because as far as Im concerned he's worked hard with and for the team in the past few games and done a lot of the gritty stuff that go's unnoticed every team needs one of them especially in the middle of the park so it's good to see that not all people are SHEEP.

Pacific your BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRD!

He needs a good run in the team before anyone can judge him in my opinion. At the minute I'm glad to have him as a squad player but I'm unsure whether he's a future prop or second rower, Liam Farrell or John Batemand will surely be the long term 13.

What position do people see him playing long term?

Pacific's poor attempts at trying to wind people up on here and the Leeds board are starting to get a bit tiresome.

No wonder the MEN got rid.

I agree with all that. I don't know what Burke has done wrong either. In fact he seems to have a good start back at Wigan. Don't think he missed a tackle in the time he was on v Widnes unlike a few others for example.

Didn't Burke suffer injury problems at Hull KR meaning he missed a good chunk of the season? I'd say he's done okay. He's finding his way back into the squad fine.

He got hurt playing v Wigan at the DW last season.

Is he good enough?
Well yes, that's why he's playing at the moment.

Would he be playing in a full strength Wigan side, probably not, but you can't have 25 International players in your squad.

Pacific is Neil Barker? Haha