It’s looking like the forwards are sorted for next year now, I imagine we’ll have something like this

Mago
Powell
Havard
Farrell
Bateman
Ellis

Partington
Singleton
Smithies
Clark/Byrne

I’d like to see O’Neil given a permanent spot from the bench as a 20-30 minute boomer to begin with but I can’t see Powell being dislodged as a 80 minute hooker

Singleton 9 carries for 62m 14 tackles.

Clubb 8 for 67m 20 tackles

Partington 7 for 54m 25 tackles

Havard 17 for 114m 24 tackles

Clark 7 for 58m 16 tackles

Shorrocks 8 for 50m 30 tackles

I expect Mago will be utilised off the bench generally and I expect Clark to leave given our position with the quota.

It’s certainly a much better proposition with Mago and Ellis added to the mix and some of the deadweight lost.

Still pretty average. Each prop should be in double figures for carries. It’s a significant improvement for Clubb. 3 carries for 12 metres (something like that) earlier on in the season?

Christ. I’m almost praising sub standard here. Shows how little we expect from our props.

It’s unlikely you’ll get all your middle forwards going above ten carrries in fairness. In total they carried the ball 56 times between them. I looked at Saints last two games, considering we’d probably class their middle forwards as the benchmark and in their last game they carried the ball 43 times between them and in the game before that it was 58 times.

That was a pretty solid effort as a collective last night IMO.

Not sure where people get the individual stats from but could you let me know so can have a look at last nights drives and meters from our middles please.

The superleague site mate. Go to the results section and click on last nights game and if you scroll to the bottom of the match report, they’re all there.

Singleton had probably his best game in a Wigan shirt looking at last night. He made 36 tackles, carried the ball 16 times and made 135 metres. That’s a standard you’d love to see him keep up.

If you go on the super league page go to results then to bottom of page it gives home team stats and click on away team for Wigan.
Our forwards did ok last night Singleton and Havard was very good if Singleton can play to that level consistently it eases any concerns once we add in Mago and Ellis. Byrne did well apart from the cheap penalty.
Bourough should have had 20mins at end of the game for me he scooted for more yards in 2 mins of possession than we normally get all game, I'm not saying it's all I want to see but the threat ties in the marker defense closer to the ruck and offers us easy yards and maybe the odd penalty.

Snap!

The lack of minutes for Bourouh sums up Lams mentality for me. It’s all about us being solid, no thrills, no risks and defensively sound. We were chasing a game and left a fresh, attacking hooker sat on the bench until giving him a token few minutes once the game was up.

I’ve never come across a bloke as contradictory as Lam is. He talks about attack and wanting to thrill people but is so defensive and refuses to pick anyone who won’t play like a robot

Thanks.

Singleton put in a cracking shift and somewhat ironic Havard had a quieter night.

Rest of the middles provided the standard lack of go forward. I wouldn’t mind so much if they were generating quick play the balls.

Powell 21 is a big issue 11m. Whilst it’s not his job it highlights how 1 dimensional he has become.

add to that his slow and inaccurate passing and its a massive issue, not as much as just resigning him