Opinions, every one has them, here's mine. The rain and wind in our face were so bad that Lewis's high towering kicks for distance just weren't going to work effectively. Low trajectory kicks aimed at the sideline were more appropriate for the conditions, playing for a stoppage and a scrum, running down the clock Something Wakeham is adept at normally. So having both Foran and Wakeham available, either side of the ruck, to take the kicks was not an unreasonable decision. From when Wakeham came on to the end of game the Knights had 3 set restarts and received a penalty. Not exactly conducive to getting into the game, especially for a rookie in those conditions. The wind was also blowing not quite down the ground, more to the right (from our point of view). With Foran playing on the left he would have been kicking straight into the wind, whereas Wakeham playing on the right had a bit of wind assistance towards the sideline, a bit too much as it happened. Conditions dictated who was the more appropriate to take the kicks.
Around the 50 minute mark I said to the person sitting next to me that we would not get another penalty or a set restart. I was wrong, whilst we didn't get another set restart to add to the solitary 1 in the 7th minute, we did get 2 penalties in the 79th minute out of total of 4 for the whole match. FWIW set restarts were 7 to 1, FMD not obvious who was "supposed" to win that game............but they didn't.
To make the point, according to Matt Cecchin the Knights did not give away 1 single set restart in 73 minutes of playing time, that's impossible as anyone watching the game knows.
Go Dogs