Defence conundrum

[Johnone]

Why is it that Wigans defence one game is watertight and another game leaks like a sieve.?

[WIGIAN]

At Wakey Willie Isa, Jake Wardle, Ethan Havard and whisper very quietly Powell ?

[medlocke]

whisper very quietly Powell ?

We really did miss his third man in on the tackle

[keptinthedarkfans]

whisper very quietly Powell ?

We really did miss his third man in on the tackle

Sorry meds but you can't knock Powell on his defense.

[WIGIAN]

The question was re lack of consistent defence was it not or did I misread ?

[Johnone]

Yes you are correct.

[DaveO]

At Wakey Willie Isa, Jake Wardle, Ethan Havard and whisper very quietly Powell ?

Powell’s defence wasn’t missed. O’Neil was second in the list of tackles made with 32 after Smithies on 46. O’Neil only missed one whereas the worst offender was Shorrocks on 30 tackles but missed 8.

https://www.superleague.co.uk/match-centre/report/3868

[pedro]

whisper very quietly Powell ?

We really did miss his third man in on the tackle

Sorry meds but you can't knock Powell on his defense.

you can, hes no micky mac thats for sure as its shown this year, imagine saying we missed willie isa, we are bang in trouble eh

[Johnone]

The point that I am making is that you can have basically the same personnel on the pitch 2 weeks running and the defence one week can be fantastic the following week woeful.

[nathan_rugby]

We really did miss his third man in on the tackle

Sorry meds but you can't knock Powell on his defense.

you can, hes no micky mac thats for sure as its shown this year, imagine saying we missed willie isa, we are bang in trouble eh

This is part of the issue with our turnover of players and not improving.

Last year Isa couldn’t get into the 17 when fit for months…. Shorrocks this year went on loan to Leigh…

I appreciate they’ve both been “good” this year but you cannot have too many “good” players or Jack of all trades.

At second row we have gone backwards and have an imbalance in experience and ability.