Wigan supporters did not think he was a good coach ,
They have recruited pretty well but they have crucially avoided injuries to a certain extent

he's better than we have. having said that it's a very low bar.....

Thought I was on the Leeds United thread for a minute Tad.

think positive, lufc have had 3 coaches, been a shambles but still better than the rhinos...we got rid of our crap coaches.
then appoint another...

How are Leeds Utd better than the Rhinos? Didn't they just get relegated?

Yeah I'm not sure by what metric leeds united did better than the Rhinos this season.

it was about poor appointments in key jobs.
I.e. both had e coaches

Did the Leeds United manager take them to a major final? Sorry for the ignorance, I don't follow soccer.

I'll repeat myself one last time.
it was about the similarities of poor appointments in key positions.

HTH

If I remember rightly the players we brough in in the late 90's included Fleary, Farrell, Hay, Sheridan, Powell. All brought in on the cheap and all dumped just as thegolden generation were emerging leaving us with little choice but to bring through our own youngsters

No idea what this is.

not sure they were dumped. most simply got to the end of there careers and left. wasn't powell about 35 when we signed him? certainly wasn't young

That list is odd. Powell was virtually retired when we signed him, and Farrell and Fleary weren't young either. Sheridan was a reasonably big signing at the time, and the list also ignores Harris, one of the biggest signings we've ever made. The squad was an utter mess when they took over, as we'd almost gone bankrupt, and GH also brought in a number of players who might not have been big signings but were desperately needed to boost the squad (including a bunch from Sheffield). I'm not sure what point they are trying to make?

Fact is when GH and Caddick took over in 1997 they started spending big, and also focused on junior development. At the same time. We continued to make big signings throughout most of the Golden Generation era, particularly from overseas.

All factually correct but alas the "Big name players" are unattainable with the disparity in salary cap what we all need to understand is that our sport in the northern hemisphere is a poor relation to the southern hemisphere and for the politics it will ever be so, we have to get real and accept it for what it is.

agreed. the secret is to find players like kylie and Scott Donald. huge successes here but deemed surplus over there