Wigan Warriors • Kaide Ellis
Phuzzy wrote:
I know that on Redvee everything Wigan is poor but, even by their standards, that's ridiculous. Ellis is exactly the sort of prop packs are built on. Consistent, great attitude, good metres, solid defence...what's not to like? It staggers me that they laud Lees, who is one of the poorest metre makers in the comp, is inconsistent and, when not playing off the back of Walmsley and Paasi, is almost universally anonymous yet decry someone like Ellis who beats him in every measurable metric! I guess he does lead their much vaunted "line speed" though, so that's ok. And what a stirling job of that he's doing this year too!
If we just go Ellis verses Lees and look at games they’ve run above 100 metres or under 50 metres, it stacks up as below-
Under 50 metres
Ellis 2
Lees 4
Over 100 metres
Ellis 4
Lees 2
Ellis has done that in 13 appearances, against Lees 17 appearances. Ellis hasn’t gone under 50 metres since game 4 as well, so after a slow start he’s got better and better.
It’s not telling us everything but if Ellis ain’t good enough for the bench of a mid table team, Lees best pack up and head off to the Championship. I actually like Lees as well tbh and appreciate they’re slightly different in style (but fundamentally their jobs are the same).
Statistics: Posted by NickyKiss — Wed Jul 19, 2023 11:17 am — Replies 32 — Views 2634