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| Quote Father Ted="Father Ted"In my OP I suggested Bowen at 1 with Hampshire on the bench. That, I thought, would give SW a choice should he feel changes are needed during the game.
Bowen hasn't been great at all, however I do think his tackle on SBW last Saturday was telling. Another 6 points at that stage could have meant them getting 50.
The other reason for benching Ryan was that I've not been over impressed with our half backs either. Hampshire would give SW options in that regard too.
At this stage of the season I think the best place for Hampshire is the bench rather than a starting spot where he would be targeted.'"
Not a bad suggestion FT. Bowen has actually played backup 9 in the past (even at Origin levelif I recall) possibly give the starting 9 a rest, bring on Hampshire, send him to 1 and Bowen to 9.
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| Quote Last Son of Wigan="Last Son of Wigan"
Not a bad suggestion FT. Bowen has actually played backup 9 in the past (even at Origin levelif I recall) possibly give the starting 9 a rest, bring on Hampshire, send him to 1 and Bowen to 9.
Otherwise I wouldnt wanna see a subsitute wasted on a fb interchange.'"
Sounds like a good idea but I would rather keep Bowen at full back and put Hampshire on as hooker.
I am not keen on making lots of positional changes and hampshires pace at acting half could give a real good attacking option against a tiring Wakey defence. |
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| Quote jonh="jonh") I still think Bowen will prove to be an outstanding signing once he settles and I still think he will be in contention for the MOS at the end of the year.
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| Quote stillinthepast="stillinthepast"I am amongst those on here who have memories of the lack of impact that Gene Miles had in the early part of the season he played with Wigan.
So I had a look at Bilko's stats for that season and it really showed how the memory can play tricks years after.
Up to early December of that season Miles only played app 4 games, it was a case of play a match miss 3/4.
From the 15 of Dec he went on to play app 24 matches with him only missing 1 match in that run of 24 matches.'"
I remember that - there were a lot of rumours/concerns during the early part of the season whether he would ever play (if I remember rightly it was chronic injury that kept flaring up). I think the play one miss a few was due to him either being pushed/or pushing to play and breaking down and then missing a few. |
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| Quote EastStandFaithful="EastStandFaithful"Sounds like a good idea but I would rather keep Bowen at full back and put Hampshire on as hooker.
I am not keen on making lots of positional changes and hampshires pace at acting half could give a real good attacking option against a tiring Wakey defence.'"
Sooner see Hampshire get as much game time as poss at fb personally in prep for when he takes over the position FT. |
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Bowen wouldn't have played on Sunday even if he'd had a stormer in the WCC, IMO. SW has always said he'd rest players for the first game back. Sundays squad will be made up of one or two who played WCC, the ones who travelled and didn't play and probably a couple of younger squad players.
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| Quote Last Son of Wigan="Last Son of Wigan"Sooner see Hampshire get as much game time as poss at fb personally in prep for when he takes over the position FT.'"
I think Rocky will be in the halves next year.
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| Quote jonh="jonh"I think Rocky will be in the halves next year.
I also think Bowen will do 1 more season also.'"
Who knows. Personally I don't. Rocky seems to be marked out for the FB role similar to Sam. Has he even played at 6 in the first team?
To me, and I could be wrong, Wane has his eyes on Powell to replace Green in the halves with Williams also waiting. |
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I'd go with:
1. Hampshire
2. Charnley
3. Gelling
4. Thornley
5. Manfredi
6. Williams
7. Smith
8. Dudson
9. Tomkins
10. Crosby
11. Bateman
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15. Hopkins
16. C.Farrel
17. Hughes
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I'd like to see:
Bowen
Charnley
Thornley
Sarginson
Burgess
Hampshire
Smith
Taylor
McIlorum
Crosby
Farrell
Hughes
Bateman
Clubb
Tomkins
Dudson
Flower
But I think we will be weaker.
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The players I'm sure want to play and SW probably has realised how important a convincing win is this weekend.
Doesn't surprise me one bit!
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