To quote BilkoTomkins has to come in next week. Whatever Tim Smith does in attack is wasted because his defence his amateurish. '"

The last tackle options last night were perhaps the worst I've ever seen from a Wigan team (and I remember Wendy Whitfield being our playmaker). DUMB plays - kicking out on the full, hoofing it more or less straight over the dead ball line and when they actually decided to run it they did so when aboslutely nothing was on and there was no support. The halves look absolutely lost at the moment and why the holy feck Tomkins can't be given a run with Tommy going to hooker I have no idea at all.

You could even say we are missing Trent in defense more than in attack due to Smiths aweful tackling.

Tim Smith is too hot and cold for my liking. One week he looks to be hitting form the next he looks like Dennis Moran MK2. The problem is hes only young and fairly inexperienced himself. What we need is a really experienced halfback partner next to him who can do the organising and kicking whilst Smith concentrates on set plays.

On the subject of halfbacks,i though Sean Long was awesome against Warrington last week. He virtually won Saints the game single handed.He was dancing about mid field drawing the Warrington defence in then moving the ball wide leaving acres of space for Pryce and Gidley to run into. Warrington couldnt lay a hand on Long.

Wakefield targetted him and the Castleford did the same. It's been a clear issue that has to be solved.

I think we'dve won the game if he'd made that tackle.

But whatever the case, you can't concede 28 to any team at home. It's not good enough.

Smith's by far the best passer of the ball in the team but we have no runners off him. IMO we need a few players running at gaps & just let Smith pick them out, then I think we'll see the best of him.

Although his attempted tackle last night was shocking!

Can't be much worse can it? What harm can it do?

I wouldn't mind if he made up for it in attack but he doesn't. As some has mentioned he's too hit and miss.

I agree with that

When Smith goes back to the NRL he will probably fill all the expectations there were of him before he had his bipolar disorder. This will be due to him playing like a traditional scrum half and having runners to pick out which he is very good at doing. If he goes back to Paramatta he will probably have Nathan Hindmarsh covering him in defence so he wont be as exposed

I cant see any NRL teams wanting him to be honnest Some are saying not good enough for Wigan can't see the NRL teams wanting him.

We've missed Barrett more than I (and most people) ever expected.