Wigan Warriors • Worst ever half by a Wigan team?
MadDogg wrote:
I don't think it was a team selection issue - more of a mentality one. That will hurt Peet as its essentially the central tenent of his approach to coaching - developing togetherness, resilience and a strong team culture. Without much innovation/creativity with the ball, when the mentality isn't up to scratch Wigan are maybe exposed a little.
Oh, I agree, I don’t think not picking Harvie Hill makes a difference to that result. It was just a response to the post above that mentioned not having enough props in the side. That had nothing to do with the result but it could do on another day and I just feel Peet has a bit of Brian Noble about him, in that he seems to pick his side in order of seniority and if that leaves us short of a prop, a halfback or whatever, he is fine with that. It’s easy to say ‘play a kid’ when you’re sat on your backside, watching it with a beer in your hand though (like me).
I take your point about the approach.. We don’t look as slick as last year and you wonder if the Briers exits has impacted on that. I do think we’ve taken an approach this year of targeting blocks of games, rather than going hard every week and that is also impacting on how slick we are with the ball. The visible lift in intensity for Leigh, Saints and Wire was unreal and the drop off after has been even more obvious. I think the next plan would’ve been to target the cup game, HKR, Magic and Saints away. I think we’ll see a huge lift again but unfortunately last night may have hit the sides confidence that hard that even going through the gears in terms of intensity may not be enough.
Statistics: Posted by NickyKiss — Sat May 13, 2023 9:23 pm — Replies 26 — Views 2550