You do realise guys like Peacock, Hill and Walmsley are making double the carries and playing much longer minutes then our four do don't you?

It'd be interesting to look at the minutes played, total number of carries and average metres per carry of each of those forwards you've listed above.

Wigan use their props differently to a lot of other teams. They rotate evenly between them and not one of them carries the burden. They were poor for the majority of the season but when they got their heads straight at the end of the year teams struggled to go with them.

Walmsley is playing much longer minutes? Seriously? And if they're making more carries surely that makes them more effective props?

As The Printer said, Waney likes his centres and back rowers to make the meters.
SW uses his props to make multiple tackles. For the most part of most games Wigan put three men into a tackle. Especially so when opposition props go up the middle.
Very often in the last 10 minutes of a game Wigan are still putting three men into the tackles. That's how they use their energy.

As for individual performances by our props, we are expecting better seasons from most of them.
Flower was missing from the start of last season. He will start this season.
Mossop had a poor start after his shoulder sugery, He will be far better this season.
Clubb was excellent last time and will be this.
Crosby played with an injury all last season, now had surgery back in March we're told.
Tautai has to improve this season, was very hit and miss last year.
Sutton was good when played, if Tautai is poor again then Ryan will replace him IMO.

As for tactics, away from home Wigan lose their power on the McIlorum interchange. When sub'd by a man from the bench who isn't up with the pace of the game we lose.
When sub'd by a man who started the half and is up with the pace of the game we win.
In the GF, when Micky M came back on for the last 20 mins we faded yet again. Couldn't even get out of our half and never ever looked like scoring.
Waney prefers to use a sub from the bench hence we can't win away from the DW

So by this reckoning Wigan's props should be making considerable more tackles than other SL props?

I know they do that's why I pointed out that you use your centres and 2nd rowers a lot more and that you only got 8 carries each from your starting props in the GF.....question is if this is what's costing you getting over the line in competitions. A big metre making prop has always been a key ingredient to a side IMO and Wigan and going without it seems.

Do you not think that the opposition props are saved some of their energy though by not having the Wigan props run at them that often.

Most opposition props (Peacock excepted) are interchanged by the clock, as are Wigan's.
A lack of energy doesn't seem to come into it.
Although many think Wigan's back rowers appear small ie Farrell and Bateman, hit ups are also made by the likes of Gelling and Joel T who are big men as well as having a bit of pace, certainly Joel anyway.
There are many reasons why Waney goes wide with his centres and back rowers doing the meters. Perhaps one of those many reasons is it tires out the opposition centres and back rowers who when having to defend their own line out wide against Wigan, fail.
Wigan wingers (Charnley, Burgess, Richards & Manfredi)) for the past few seasons have scored many tries out wide when the opposing centre and/or wingman got his instantly made decision wrong. Fatigue has to be a factor.
Wigan's problem to me as I mentioned above, isn't the style of game played by the props it's the McIlorum interchange. That hasn't worked for a season and a half now, whether it'll be changed this coming season remains to be seen. I very much doubt it though.

That doesn't really work when our centres and wingers (and occasionally half-backs) are regularly taking the tough hits up in our own 20m.

I think this is well argued.

I have long advocated Micky Mac doing the full 80. He needs to be doing more this season if he wants to get his England place back. Also, it would allow us to have a back on the bench, especially if Bateman is playing centre. It leaves us short in the backs if there is an injury.

Well now Mr Mossop is out for a while....any thoughts about this....I think he's done at Wigan!

All teams use their three quarters to take hit ups in their own 20m most of the time. Wigan is no different there.

Dunno about that, but it is worrying that it's his shoulder again, even though Wane says it's not the same injury.

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He had a poor season 2015, don't think he'll get any better, shame an all that but no sentiment in sport,

He was improving towards the end of last season as his confidence grew. Lets hope this is a minor setback.

Let's not be too hasty in writing him off.

I'll always remember his efforts in the 2011 Cup Final and he deserves our patience for that alone in my view.

I have no qualms about our pack. The workload is shared between them all, rather than a reliance on one or two individuals. As for the size of our forwards being an issue we took Brisbane to Golden Point in the WCC and they didn't do too badly last season. Neither did we come to think of it. It was our decision making that let us down in the Grand Final, not our workrate.