Kicker

[Wigan_forever1985]

Has to be looked at again, smith been given a full season now and shown no signs of getting better than the standard of a back up kicker. Need a 85% + kicker

[TrueBlueWarrior]

Has to be looked at again, smith been given a full season now and shown no signs of getting better than the standard of a back up kicker. Need a 85% + kicker

We shouldn't have gone for 2 at 8-6 down, should have gone for a try!!

[Wigan_forever1985]

True but that should of been an easy 2 plus he didn't even get it dead

[TrueBlueWarrior]

True but that should of been an easy 2 plus he didn't even get it dead

I am agreeing with you, I knew he was gonna miss and that is one of the reasons we should have gone for a try which probably would have won us the game!!

[Wandering Warrior]

It's alright saying we should have done this and that, the game was lost early doors with a brain fart. The lads did well with one man down and I would have expected us to put 30 up Saints with a full team!!
The fact that they had a winning margin of only 8 points shows their inadequacies.
I suspect they will be a better outfit next year if they get their half backs playing and boxhead back.
We need to mither about our own inadequacies though, as has been mentioned on other posts.

[TrueBlueWarrior]

It's alright saying we should have done this and that, the game was lost early doors with a brain fart. The lads did well with one man down and I would have expected us to put 30 up Saints with a full team!!
The fact that they had a winning margin of only 8 points shows their inadequacies.
I suspect they will be a better outfit next year if they get their half backs playing and boxhead back.
We need to mither about our own inadequacies though, as has been mentioned on other posts.

You are right it was a massive brain fart from Bentham not sending Hohaia off!!

[captinjack]

Has to be looked at again, smith been given a full season now and shown no signs of getting better than the standard of a back up kicker. Need a 85% + kicker

We shouldn't have gone for 2 at 8-6 down, should have gone for a try!!

He's a good scrum half, but his kicking is not up to it. We need a competent kicker. Totally agree with TBW should not have gone for the two points when we where 10 m out with 6 tackles. At that point it's a no brainer, you go for the try and make Stains chase the game, not the other way around.

[TrueBlueWarrior]

Has to be looked at again, smith been given a full season now and shown no signs of getting better than the standard of a back up kicker. Need a 85% + kicker

We shouldn't have gone for 2 at 8-6 down, should have gone for a try!!

He's a good scrum half, but his kicking is not up to it. We need a competent kicker. Totally agree with TBW should not have gone for the two points when we where 10 m out with 6 tackles. At that point it's a no brainer, you go for the try and make Stains chase the game, not the other way around.

Exactly, for me and I know this sounds silly but getting to 8-8 was of no real benefit, we needed to get ahead, mentally and not just on the scoreboard!!

[yokozuna]

Obviously, the Flower incident was what cost us the match. But the missed penalty seemed to be the point at which our resilience and fight went. Before the kick I said to my brother that he might well miss, but he must kick it dead so we get the ball back.

If, if, if...

[jasonnlouise]

Unfortunately he's not a pressure kicker look at the Hull KR game we'd have won the league not his fault but we need an alternative