Wigan Warriors • Middles

The current Wigan squad has the following middles.

Clubb (well past it)
Burgess (signed on marquee money open secret his hip was gone.
Flower (well past his best)
Partington (aggressive lightweight)
Bullock (rotation prop)
Byrne (see Partington)
Clark (back up prop)
Harvard (kid with potential)
Shorocks (aggressive but lightweight)
Singleton (decent rotation)
Kilner (kid with potential)

That’s 11 middles (12 if you include Locky) and no quality.

Loads of quantity but no quality.

Grand finals are won on wet nights in Autumn.

Out of the 11 above the only ones personally I would retain in an ideal worlds are -

Bullock
Havard
Singleton
Kilner

Then bring in 3 proper experienced heaveyweight props.

It’s a shame to let good young players go but if we want to win trophies we won’t while we are trying to bring through so many young Props at the same time.

It’s even more of an issue when you consider our second row.

Faz and Isa outstanding on the front foot but never going to put you on the front foot as both lightweight.

Greenwood, big lad, but no heart.

Bateman next year, again wonderful player but lightweight.

Statistics: Posted by jonh — Sat Oct 03, 2020 10:50 pm

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