Warrington Wolves • Cooper to Wigan confirmed
ninearches wrote:
There is a difference in international standards though. Put our internationals up against Aussies & Kiwis & we are soon found out. Our internationals like many first team players are glorified reserves who have been uprated to play in superleague.
Agree, but there are no Aussie or Kiwi rep level players in super league. Comparing against those in the competition, Wayne Bennett and Shaun Wane have, rather consistently, looked at those players and assessed them better than their peers.
Other than Walmsley, there are no props in my opinion that would mix it with the NRL elite. The next tier down, according to Wane, includes Cooper and Philbin. Yet the results on the field don’t reflect that.
Statistics: Posted by Barbed Wire — Thu Jun 16, 2022 11:13 am — Replies 131 — Views 12550