Quote: 100% Warrior "I haven’t critiqued him as a FB or any position for that matter during our debate. I’ve questioned his defence yes, is it disastrously bad? Not at all. Does it need improvement? Yes but nothing drastic.
I’m against moving Zak away from a role he’s been consistent in all season. We don’t play that FB link with Zak, why would we now change it just because French goes there? Zak has proven in the past (at Cas and Leeds) he can be that link man, and a pretty effective one at that. It baffles me how or why we’ve not used it this season. Moving French there, I feel would result in the same we’ve had all season - no link play.
It makes more sense to me moving French to HB and Tommy to hooker keeping Zak at FB. You’re right in the last paragraph and I completely agree, we do need a change or we’ll get the same result against Saints in the GF (provided we get there of course). I think that change comes from putting French at HB where he can add that attacking flair more than if he was at FB being under utilised like we have with Zak all season.'"
-How can you say his defence needs improving when you've never ever seen him play FB?
-Zak was never the link man at Leeds or Cas, he played exactly the same game as he does today, albeit he's arguably lost a step of pace.
-Don't know how you can say the result of playing French at FB would result in no link play when a) you've never seen French play FB at Wigan, and b) you've never seen French play FB at all.
-No it doesn't make more sense moving French to the halves. Not in the slightest. I've seen French play 6 for Wigan on several occasions now, did it work? No, not at all. Will it in the future? It might well do, but we're discussing the here and now.
All in all, you question French's defence as a FB even though you've never seen him play FB.
You seem to think Zak has suddenly stopped being a link man when he arrived at Wigan (he's always played the same)
You think the answer is playing French in the halves even though we've all seen it doesn't work currently.
Amazing mate.