Dave K. wrote:Not sure your point our weakened pack matched Wigan's weakened pack.
If we play teams with their full strength pack and we have 3 main players out it will be hard, but thats the same for any sides surely (look at Saints against Warrington).
Our pack is no where near our biggest problem.
I'm confident we can match most packs in the league, even with 3 players out, Saints maybe the exception, but it's more the way the team is coached than the players.
I never said the pack was our biggest problem but it is a problem. Our 1st choice pack includes ellis who won't play a chunk of games this year. We're then into playing our form centre in the 2nd row or playing youngsters who clearly aren't up to it.
Stats yesterday:
lane - 9 carries
masi - 3 carries
fash 4 carries
ellis - 4 carries
bowden - 4 carries
Simply not good enough.
Contrast it to wigan's youngsters/interchange
smithies - 12 carries
partington - 13 carries
bullock - 11 carries
byrne - 12 carries
clarke - 12 carries
The forwards clearly are a problem
As radford has said, a very average wigan side