Quote: Itchy Arsenal "If it helps the balance on what is a pretty significant change in line up then yes if you consider moving to the bench as being dropped. Isn't the game now about the 17 rather the 13?
By the way I am not particularly anti Powell or pro Sammut I just don't see the point in signing Sammut unless the club intend playing him. By the way if Powell had a half decent kicking game I wouldn't propose Sammut in the halves however, his kicking game is on a par with TL & GW which in my opinion is poor to pretty much non existent.
What about TL's and GW's kicking game? I assume that TL & Powell together cannot match Powell on his own in terms of tackles?'"
I'm pro-winning. I'm pro rewarding players who consistently play their part in a winning team. I want Sammut to be a success at Wigan, but like I said in my original post which kicked all this off, he should earn his place, not leapfrogging players who are part of a winning side. If we weren't winning I'd suggest experimenting with our squad to generate winning performances, be we have that.
You keep trying to bring up kicking, like it's a justification for including Sammut, when it's so basic, such a surface level comment, when you look a little deeper there's a number of factors to why a player is selected, and currently we're selecting a winning team.
Imagine if I'd have asked 6 months of we're all in favour of signing Sammut and playing him in our halves, what do you think the response would have been?