Adrian Lam on Wigan Warriors' youngsters, Tommy Leulaui and Oliver Gildart injuries and Brad Singleton's red card
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2021 9:13 pm
The Cherry and Whites won 50-6 over Leigh Centurions on Sunday
Adrian Lam hailed Wigan Warriors’ youngsters after the Cherry and Whites’ 50-6 demolition of Leigh Centurions.
Wigan simply swept the floor with Leigh at the DW Stadium, running in nine tries in front of a sizeable crowd of 9,206.
Three of those tries belonged to Umyla Hanley, while Sam Halsall, who was drafted into the side late in place of Oliver Gildart, grabbed one on the other edge and rookie half-back Harry Smith had a say in a large proportion of them.
As such, after witnessing his side get back to winning ways in style, the Wigan boss raving about his young stars.
We had a few late changes which could have disrupted our performance but I thought our two young players that played on the wing and the one off the bench – Hanley scored a hat-trick, Sam Halsall was really safe and I thought Amir Bourouh was pretty safe as well – I’m proud of the young ones that filled in,” Lam said.
“Smith was pretty good. He’s had a good go at it now over the last six to eight weeks and I still think he has improvements to make.
We’re working hard on him being a better player and he certainly showed some good signs today.”
Unfortunately, the win came at a cost for the Wigan as they lost Tommy Leuluai to a suspected hamstring tear, while Gildart pulled out of the warm-up with a muscle concern.
“Tommy Leuluai tore a hamstring today,” he added. “It is just purely on the back of a load of work that we’ve been doing. We’ve got a couple of other players with muscle strains which is all part of the short turnaround.
“It’s a real difficult schedule for us at the moment and that’s why I’m really proud of the players. For a four-day turnaround after Warrington, I thought we finished the game with more energy than them.
“Gildart pulled up with a bit of a strain at captain’s run yesterday. He got in today and was playing but we were concerned because he got into the dressing room and said when he was stretching it feels like it’s grabbing.
“He went out and had a run in the warm-up and he felt like it was going to go. We didn’t want to take the risk.
The club are braced for disciplinary action, too, as Brad Singleton was shown a red card for throwing punches at Leigh debutant Jack Ashworth.
The pair could be seen exchanging blows in the first half, but Lam refused to be drawn on the incident.
When asked about the melee, he said: “I need to have a look at both angles as soon as I get back to work tonight. It’s hard for me to say without replays, I’ll have a look and see where we sit with that.”
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Adrian Lam hailed Wigan Warriors’ youngsters after the Cherry and Whites’ 50-6 demolition of Leigh Centurions.
Wigan simply swept the floor with Leigh at the DW Stadium, running in nine tries in front of a sizeable crowd of 9,206.
Three of those tries belonged to Umyla Hanley, while Sam Halsall, who was drafted into the side late in place of Oliver Gildart, grabbed one on the other edge and rookie half-back Harry Smith had a say in a large proportion of them.
As such, after witnessing his side get back to winning ways in style, the Wigan boss raving about his young stars.
We had a few late changes which could have disrupted our performance but I thought our two young players that played on the wing and the one off the bench – Hanley scored a hat-trick, Sam Halsall was really safe and I thought Amir Bourouh was pretty safe as well – I’m proud of the young ones that filled in,” Lam said.
“Smith was pretty good. He’s had a good go at it now over the last six to eight weeks and I still think he has improvements to make.
We’re working hard on him being a better player and he certainly showed some good signs today.”
Unfortunately, the win came at a cost for the Wigan as they lost Tommy Leuluai to a suspected hamstring tear, while Gildart pulled out of the warm-up with a muscle concern.
“Tommy Leuluai tore a hamstring today,” he added. “It is just purely on the back of a load of work that we’ve been doing. We’ve got a couple of other players with muscle strains which is all part of the short turnaround.
“It’s a real difficult schedule for us at the moment and that’s why I’m really proud of the players. For a four-day turnaround after Warrington, I thought we finished the game with more energy than them.
“Gildart pulled up with a bit of a strain at captain’s run yesterday. He got in today and was playing but we were concerned because he got into the dressing room and said when he was stretching it feels like it’s grabbing.
“He went out and had a run in the warm-up and he felt like it was going to go. We didn’t want to take the risk.
The club are braced for disciplinary action, too, as Brad Singleton was shown a red card for throwing punches at Leigh debutant Jack Ashworth.
The pair could be seen exchanging blows in the first half, but Lam refused to be drawn on the incident.
When asked about the melee, he said: “I need to have a look at both angles as soon as I get back to work tonight. It’s hard for me to say without replays, I’ll have a look and see where we sit with that.”
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