Am i right in thinking that Powell has suffered a lot of head injuries recently?

Yeah, it’s amazing to think he was a halfback by trade and not just as a junior either.

Had a couple, he is only 3452 behind Chris Hill now. And thats only based on the last 2 seasons. Oh wait a minute he was just tired but it saves using a sub i suppose?

Played hooker for us since 2014… pretty much the majority of his professional career.

I get he was signed as a scrum half and played there in the academy and a bit for the first team but it was so long ago and so early in his development I don’t think you can refer to it.

I would recommend giving the club shop a call, it always works for us.

Exactly ^^^

I think if Powell was released then O'Neil would obviously get a lot more game time and could share the hooking role with Tommy

Why not????
If we get a couple of injuries next season in the HBs who do you think Peet will play at HB if Smith and Field are both out injured?

By your logic Sam Tomkins couldn’t play HB or show skill sets of an HB because virtually all of his professional career has been played at FB.

I’d strongly suggest that SOL and Hock both showed handling skills throughout their professional career that they learned as an HB at schoolboy level.

In 2014 when we played The Roosters SWs choice as starting 7 was Powell albeit he didn’t play due to injury. I suspect SW must have rated Powell as a 7 and even after 7 long long years I don’t think it’s illogical to assume that Powell could and should retain basic core skills of an HB even though he may have lost a bit of pace.

Thanks for your wisdom on that one.

Thought Powell improved out of sight in 2019, found a running game from somewhere and varied our attack, last year was dreadful though, if Peet can find the '19 version of Powell then I'm fine with that, the '20 version though doesn't bare thinking about

What makes any supporter think that Powell will be released when like other Wigan lads, Farrell and O'loughlin, he is one of the fixtures at the club?