Quote: Last Son of Wigan "-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.'"
- I never questioned his defence at FB. I questioned it in general
- Yes he was
- Because we haven’t played it at all this season so why would we start now by switching French to FB?
- It doesn’t make sense to you. It does to me and others. That’s no slant on you or those who disagree either.
All in all I’ve raised a concern about his defence in general and that moving French to FB wouldn’t make a difference because we haven’t linked in the FB much this season, it seems to have disappeared from our play. Zak has stopped being the link man because we’ve stopped playing it like we did with Tomkins despite Zak being perfectly capable of being such. I don’t think French in the halves is the answer, I suggested it as a possibility to switch up our play.
In all likelihood neither will happen and French will continue to go on the bench and be under utilised.