Scott Taylor - 85m from 15 carries - 19 tackles, 0 missed
Lee Mossop - 73m from 14 carries - 33 tackles, 4 missed
Hame Lauaki - 54m from 14 carries - 23 tackles, 0 missed
Dom Crosby - 26m from 8 carries - 18 tackles, 0 missed

Taylor was our best prop against Hull KR. Lauaki was ineffective in attack, but he made a big hit and put a lot of effort in for 20 minutes in defence.

If he puts that effort in with any sort of frequency Lauaki will be a good player. He doesn't though. Never did at Hull, hasn't done so far at Wigan either. He's had good games, but far too few. He's had bad games too, but mostly very average games.

He averages 66 metres per game and 15 tackles. That's not impressive. Last season it was 73 metres per game and 15 tackles. For Hull in 2011 he averaged 70 metres per game and 12 tackles per game. In other words, for the last three years he's looking fairy consistent. Nothing special as a metre maker, very little work in defence.

Last season Lauaki played 6 games where he made more than 90 metres. It's a decent effort but they were always followed by very disappointing games where he was ineffective. In short, Lauaki is capable of the occasional good game but is inconsistent and has a lot of games where he doesn't match up to his fellow props.

Ben Flower averages 90 metres per game and 22 tackles; Mossop 97 metres per game and 21 tackles; Crosby 78 metres per game and 19 tackles; Dudson 67 metres per game and 17 tackles.

He doesn't match up to any of our senior props this year and his stats are not too dissimilar to those from the previous 2 years so we can assume it's a trend.

Lauaki is 29 - our senior prop. He's not playing like one and never has. He's got good games in him for sure, but they don't come often enough compared to Mossop, Flower, Taylor and even Crosby.

Are you sure about this ?Big Eric is destined to be allowed to participate in other actions not really knowing the outcome , I personally think he will achieve what Shaun Wane is asking and will succumb to pander to the crowd more each game .

Less than one minute before that concussion he deliberately attempted to stamp on Scott grixs leg- luckily for Scott he missed as he happened to slightly move his leg - but considering he did it openly in front of the cameras it appears as if his decision making is just as diabolical when not concussed.
I was disgusted when Keith mason did it against you - the game is hard enough without players going out to deliberately injure or cause harm.

Nonsense. I am not "berating others" merely pointing out a player who has been at best average and often poor didn't go from that to being a player who should be picked for Wembley on the basis of one game. As the Hudds game proved. In any case looking at the thread again it wasn't all universal praise.



Where? When?

As I said even in the thread you started there were several contrary opinions and so I think you are stretching it a bit to suggest this is the case.



I have not singled out his discipline as an issue in any of the recent threads. I have confined myself to commenting on his ability as a player and IMO he is poor. He doesn't have much impact when he takes the ball in, his defence is all over the place and his "aggression" is all show with arms and legs flailing about in the tackle. Craig Smith and Quentin Pongia were props with genuine aggression and Laukai isn't remotely on the same page as them in that regard. He has an offload but that is about it.



You should try that yourself.

Would you not put Taylor as our starting prop with Flower with Dudson or Powell on the bench Hopkins can play S/R OR L/F.

On current form, our starting props for the rest of this season, and indeed next season should be Flower & Taylor.

Powell? Seriously?

I'd play him, Dudson, Lauaki and probably Spencer next week in Catalan.

I reckon Lauaki will get a 1 game ban for the stamp attempt. I would bring Andy Powell in next week to see how he is getting on.

If he'd have wanted to stamp on the Hudds player he wouldn't have missed from so close.

Maybe in slow motion it looked dodgy and given the commentary by Dumb and Dumber maybe it looked a lot worse than it was.

I'm sure the review and if necessary disciplinary panels will sort it out.

Surely you can't pick up a ban for attempted foul play? A player wouldn't get a ban for missing with a high shot or a trip.

I think someone has it on the Gelling, Thornley or Sam thread.

That is what I was thinking.