Wigan Warriors • Re: Smith and Smithies
jonh wrote:
Smithies does not have the skills of a ball handling 13 nor the size of a meter making middle.
He is a hardworking secondrow and a good one at that.
He isn’t big enough to mix it in the middle but he does a good job on an edge.
He is, at the moment, the natural successor to Isa in the 3 man rotation at secondrow.
Even as somebody who doesn’t think we should be playing him in the middle at the minute, I do still think he can do a job there. I agree he’s not really a ball player but even last season, he was making more ground through the middle than Partington currently is. That isn’t bagging Partington either, he’s doing a good job for us and brings a lot of those things to a team you just can’t measure statistically. I just see it currently that Smithies has looked like a solid/good loose forward but he’s looking like a very good second rower.
On a side note, he will take over from Isa and I wonder if that will be in 2022. I noticed that Isa’s partner has signed for a women’s team in the USA (she’s currently a footballer for Man City’s women’s team if anyone doesn’t know) and can’t help but wonder if Willie will have spoken to a team in this new North American League and picked up a club. In terms of lifestyle, I couldn’t blame them if they decided to relocate over there.
Statistics: Posted by NickyKiss — Fri Apr 30, 2021 11:12 pm