Long season to come McWolf. I do think you should have seen if Leigh fancied Hill. I wouldn't have kept him playing under Hughes, it doesn't seem to fit. I know not many are about but you are short of a big hard prop.
Bit early for its always your year kind of talk but Wire are wasted under Steve Price.
He cannot get the best out of a good squad of players at his disposal. Put a Holbrook in charge of these and they'd have become Champions by now.
I honestly don't know how they can have the pack they have and struggle up front so regularly, they have a really soft underbelly at times. Hill, Philbin, Cooper, Hughes, Clark are all good players. The frustrating thing is they turn up and play like peak Australia against us.
How a team with Widdop, Ratchford, Austin and Clark can fail to break teams down at times completely baffles me. They are 4 of the best attacking weapons in SL yet their game plan doesn't really allow them to play to those strengths.
I also find their use of subs strange. They seem to favour the Royce Simmons approach of having one back on the bench and barely using them and then only really using 2 of their subs for any length of time.
I can understand why their fans are tearing their hair out. A top coach would've won them a title by now with those players and my concern is they'll get it right next time and do just that.
Originally Posted by Despondent Dave
BBC report saying Widdop starred for Wire against Leigh.
Could he have finally recovered from the longest bout of jetlag ever recorded?
Its this year or never for that group. Some skill in the Wire side but some age as well.
Powell confirmed as joining them next year
Arise Sir Sulkalot and take your throne as the leader of the house of Neverneverland.
Match made in heaven and I can't wait to see him implode as the pressure at Warrington will far more that Cas and the locals far less understanding.
"The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It is nothing of the kind. The game is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom." Danny Blanchflower.
Might have been written by a footballer about football - but never a truer word............
Powell has a massive rebuilding task on his hands.
14 players are off contract and many of them are past their peak and getting nearer to retirement.
In a way, it is an interesting appointment as they could have potentially gone with two coaches who have won trophies in either Wane or McDermott and I'd have been a little more worried if it had been either of them given their previous records at Wigan and Leeds respectively.
On your first point, that’s probably the best way to join that club. The squad is partially made up of lots of has beens, almost beens and never beens......
On your second point, McD and Wane are both used to being at a big club, and are used to winning titles. Lots. And have reputations for winning titles. They’d be risking that at the perennial underachievers.
McD took zero risk going to Toronto because they had zero expectation. Wane can pick whoever he wants for England.....
Wire is a poisoned chalice, but IF Powell does nothing, maybe a LLS or something it’s as good as he’s ever done....
Can't stop the spirits when they need you.
This life is more than just a read through.
Well as a natural progression from a kid to a more mature player you could argue his all round game has improved. Has he ripped up defences like his 2014 MOS season? Im not sure he has. I think had he stayed at Cas he’d be an even better player but obviously thats just my opinion.
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