Some people at the game last night need get their heads tested I think. Nearly every single touch that Finch made there were cries of "he's terrible" or "what the effin hell is that finch". Considering that 1) He hasn't played for 18 months before last week and 2) In his first 2 games for us, he has played against 2 of the top 4 last season. The criticism is unbelievable and is out of order. For mine, last night Finch was pretty good. His defence was good, putting in some big hits across the park. And a couple of kicks were the right ones they just bounced a little too hard out over the dead ball line. His pass in the last play was awesome and gave sam the space to break away leading to the penalty which have us the draw. That moment shut people up. I have seen enough of him to know that he is going to be a grea signing once he fully beds in. Lets not forget, Trent wasn't amazing straight away, he took a few games to settle in. Hes a quality player Finch, who wasn't bad last night but people were completely out of order giving him so much stick.

100 percent agree mate! So much crap was aimed at finch last night. You can see his class coming to the fore slowly. He likes to play the flat game with second rowers, this is how melborne play. You could see last week his partnership with hoffman. Get hoffman and farrell running lines off him and let finch work the magic!

the pass for sams break was sublime. I seen enough in that last 15 minutes which shown that sam and finch is the HB partnership we have to go with IMO

Defence top notch. Signs of a great kicking and passing game. Just a little of the pace. But for heavens sake that's to be expected. One tough SOB IMO.

Make me laugh some ppl slagging him off it's his 2 nd game for f@ck sakea026.gif He will come good

I am just watching the game again now and his pass to Sam when he put Joel down the wing was honestly one of the best passes I have seen! It was amazing!

He showed some really good touches and all of those kicks that went dead gave us the field position to dominate towards the end of the game.

Exactly, you guys seem to have a more realistic view. But honestly, at the game i could count about 10 people at least who were using him as a scapegoat for our poor performance. Ridiculous. People who I'm pretty sure post on here regularly too.

I honestly think some Wiganers want to see the Aussies we sign fail just so they can have a team full of Wiganers, its just never going to happen.

You're not wrong. Remember that Pat Richards came in for quite a lot of stick when he first arrived.

That's well worthy of consideration, if only it were true.

The pass to sam was out of the Barrett play book..it was brill

I can understand people being frustrated when things don't come off for him but realistically it's always going to be difficult for him. He's going to make mistakes, errors of judgement and slip up from time to time. It's inevitable from someone who isn't up to speed and has only been at the club for a few months.
Madge has a choice, play Finch and accept his mistakes and also run the risk of lacking cohesion in games and wait for him to get up to speed, or stick him in the reserves, get him up to match fitness and then throw him into the first team where he is likely to have the same problems adjusting to the teams style of play but will have effectively wasted half a season playing at a lower level.

He said he hadn't in Graham Emmerson's interview on the podcast, maybe he said 8 months?