Attack wise, Wigan have been far better than anything over the last 2 seasons.

We actually plan to get the ball out to the wings quickly, often using lockers as 2nd man, we actually have some dummy runners in evidence, we actually offload.

Anyone who says we are playing the same one dimensional rugby seen over the past two years isn't watching the game, just moaning about the outcome.

Where we are going wrong is that the players:

a) are losing too much ball - against Catalan that we gave them the ball early in our 6 on numerous occasions and invited them to attack us.

b) don't have the composure / brains required on the last tackle inside the opponents 20. Very obvious against Saints.

This is where we are missing someone with that extra guile, Sam isn't doing this yet and we know Tommy isn't great at this. The only player who can give us this is Tim Smith, which then opens up a big risk because of his poor defence.

If he can tighten up his defence - and wigan improve their defence as a team defending our last 20 then we are not far from being a pretty good team.

I would play Tim and Tommy, bringing Sam on and moving Tommy to 9 for the next few games - and hopefully Tim has tightened up his defence. He looked fitter last week than he has so far.

The team statistics for missed tackles are wrong on the Super League website. IIRC the OPTA stats for the Hull derby had something like 50+ (think it was more 70) missed tackles overall. If you add up individual missed tackles per player by looking at players' profiles you'll get the accurate figures for missed tackles e.g. the player with the most missed tackles is Welham of Hull KR who has missed 42 which is more than are showing up for Hull KR as a team. Their total according to the team stats is just 12.

We are playing attacking rugby now, there is no doubt. The problem is, we dont have a player in the team currently with the brains / confidence to unlock a tight defence in a big game.