Wigan Warriors • Wigan v Saints (h) (match talk not general chat)
Stu M wrote:
Its not just the numbers as you could argue its only one more than Wigan, its the positions. If you look at Wigan's injuries they are:-
Thornley- Centre
Leuleaui- Half
Powell- Hooker
Havard- Prop
So they are spread across all positions in effect. Backs, halves and forwards. However with Saints:-
Hopoate- FB/Centre
Percival- Centre
Grace- Wing
Dodd- Half
Matautia- Back row but first pick to cover centre (Played for Australia at centre)
Ours are predominantly all in the backs. If say Hopoate and Percival were fit but Knowles and Lees were injured then we could handle it much better. Thats why my worry is that Wigan will have too much pace in the backs tomorrow. Of course I just get accused of making excuses even though I have literally posted numerous times on Red Vee that we can't use injuries as an excuse.
As I've said its not the number of injuries, its the positions that they play thats the issue. Not sure why people can't see the logic in this.
Not only that but it's all on our left edge too. Our entire first choice half, 2nd row, centre and winger on the same side are missing. I think we will see a lot of French and Field down that side like all their points were at Magic. They'd be silly not to.
Statistics: Posted by The Yellow Giraffe — Thu Aug 25, 2022 9:38 am — Replies 57 — Views 4623