Quote bellycouldtackle="bellycouldtackle"Firstly what a great game yesterday, exciting finish, top class opposition and some excellent rugby. I thought Warrington were brilliant in the first 30, they beat us in every aspect of the game, second half we showed some bottle, skill and effort and more than matched Warrington blow for blow.
Yes Warrington were excellent especially in the first 25 minutes but some of our selection decisions cost us dearly. Paulie is quite simply not a second row, yet again our coaches and ultimately it must be Chesters decision decide to play him in the second row. He has shown time and again that defending out wide is beyond him, it is a tough job, they are lots of decisions to be made, lead runners, players out the back, lots of player movement etc etc, he is simply not built for the second row. Warrington exploited him big time, lost count of the missed tackles. I would have Paulie in the side, at least whilst Huby is out, but play him off the bench at prob, he looks good running running one out, he draws in defenders and he can be a handful. He defended close to the ruck against Wigan he ran at first receiver and looked a player, likewise during his second spell on the field yesterday he looked good, he is exposed when the coach decide to make him defend out wide, we cannot afford to have Gilmore, Mellor and Hanbury targeting our right hand side that has Paulie in it next Sunday. We have some excellent defenders in Ashurst, Kirmond, Horo who have the skill set to defend in the second row add Randell and Arona and we take some breaking down. We should have started yesterday with Ashurst and Kirmond in second row, Arona at 13, England and Hurst starting props with a bench of Fififta, Paulie, Horo and Wood
Big Dave is better coming on from the bench, that is when he has is best matches for us.
Please can we also learn from Warringtons professionalism re taking the two. Finally we would have won if Anakin was playing.'"
PP is most definitely a SR, far more so than a prop. Funny how I tend to trust Chester’s opinion over your, what coaching level are you at?
If there was a mistake it was starting with PP as he seems to look better when coming on later.