Quote: Clearwing "As a Leeds fan I see it a bit differently (to be expected). 3rd recent game against Catalans and Smith knew to play on their indiscipline and targeted the players most likely to react. He might try the same with yours though given you've looked pretty controlled this year I doubt he'll waste time on a tactic unlikely to work. What he may do is rattle any players unsettled by being roughed up a bit, or direct carries aplenty at players who get gassed easily and so on. Identify weakness and exploit it in other words. Of course Catalans were a fairly low bar; yourselves and the other surviving two have far fewer weaknesses. Gonna be an interesting contest.'"
I don't see how that is seeing it differently TBH, it was clearly a deliberate tactic to try to niggle and wind up Catalans players and it worked?
In that last game against us it was clear Harry Newman had been told to give Field some treatment whenever possible -
Quote - “In every game I pick a battle with someone who can make an influence and it’s been obvious all season that Jai Field has been incredible and in this game I put my hand up and I said I’d do a job on him and I thought I did that. We spoke before that if I could get into him and ruffle him then I might prevent him scoring the tries he does in attack.”
Again, whats the problem with pointing out what your deliberate and pre-planned tactic is? It's all part of the game and you play some decent rugby on the back of it. Its definitely something Wigan will have to deal with on Friday, whats the issue?
