Quote: Jake the Peg "We badly need strengthening in the forwards, 2nd row and centres. Wigan com0letely physically dominated us right across the park today. With only Sao and Holmes missing from what will be our pack next year its worrying. Far too lightweight overall and completely 7nable to hold their own against a decent set of forwards'"
Do we?
Lets say our pack and bench next season is Ese Ese, Cust, Aydin, Cartwright, Holmes and Asiata, bench, Ashworth, Balmforth, Staveley and Sao, that 4 players who where in the 17, one of which went off before HT with HIA, so that means we had 35% of our starting pack playing yesterday.
I thought we matched Wigan's pack pretty well, they were better but not by too much, none of their forwards made over 100m.
Made difference was the likes of Field and Leeming, they created 3/4 trys, we just didn't have the quality in any pivot position.
Wigan are a step above us and will be for the next few years, we need to slowly close down the gap though.
Would I like some more addictions in the pack yes and think we will get a couple more to add depth, but our starting pack isn't bad IMO, centre and halfback are the key recruitment to be done.