Really? Are the Wigan fans ready to accept a Leeds style bumming from Saints?

Wigan board reckons they've moved Saints game forward a day to 29th. Game on Sky.

https://wiganwarriors.com/blog/2020/09/ ... confirmed/ Wigan v Saints now confirmed for Tuesday. Pretty sure Wigan will rest players v Saints Regards EW

https://wiganwarriors.com/blog/2020/09/ ... confirmed/ Wigan v Saints now confirmed for Tuesday. Pretty sure Wigan will rest players v Saints Regards EW

These are professional sportsman with nothing else to concentrate on other than performing for 80 minutes a week - surely it isn't that much to ask that basic standards should be delivered?

Eh?

Are you saying that the 'golden generation' that won - 3 World Club Championships, 2 Challenge Cup Finals, 3 league leaders shields, 1 triple title winning season and 8 Super League Titles didn't have basic standards?

What I am saying is they lacked consistency - especially during the regular season in 2011 they lost 11 games - they only won 15 and had a positive points difference of c150 very similar in 2012. What does that say - not great during the season great in the play offs?

I’d be surprised if Leeds kept Wigan to within 30 but who knows, Leeds will certainly have to put in their best performance of the season to grab any result

It says that peaking at the right time is what matters in a competition that has a playoff system.

Quite. They were a champion team who got it right when it matters.

And of course year after year they were doing all their training aiming to peak in early february for the world club game and then again for september /october when the play offs came around. If you don't understand how these players are conditioned it might not make sense but it was really hard not to have a physical and mental lull in between times when you were playing all the other clubs who had a more natural cycle to their seasons.

If peaking at the right time is a reasonable thing to do, then I don't have to buy tickets until that peak happens. Good luck paying the players when I only go to finals (pretty cheap hobby the way Leeds are going).

Crikey, how much is your season ticket? Must be a lot if the players wont get paid if you only go to finals.

You are in the entertainment business - look at the crowds at Wigan how they dropped when negative style of rugby started by McGuire and continued with Wane was the norm. Despite winning GF's and CC's. Peaking maybe preferable if you want to win trophies but not so hot for entertainment and customer interest.