Exactly! The players aren't bad players, they're just very poorly coached.

Great Post this.

And look at the comments after the Catalan victory..we are 10th with a real threat of relegation so fans are gunna be critical more so cos we've flung money after money on players some have took the preverbial.. hopefully we can scrape a victory from somewhere and our status in top flight rugby will continue...final note calling someone a pillock behind a keyboard is very brave of you..maybe you'll take a break from the forum like you did a while ago cos hardly anyone agreed with your comments

(I'm not getting in to the Powell in/out debate)

Fans haven't been booing from the off, but they haven't backed the team either when I've been or watched on Sky. They only really sing when we're in front or holding on v saints.

Contrast this with the support Everton received in their relegation fight. Despite all the money spent, they were poor and the fans knew they weren't getting good value. But their fans still backed them 100% and imo, that probably kept them up.

If I weren't a Wire fan, I'd want us to be relegated. It seems to me, too many are spoilt upon previous success. I get that people are unhappy and have every right to be unhappy, but I'd rather teams with backing like Everton succeed over teams with backing like ours.

The fans didn't keep Everton up, the board sacking Benitez did. A coach who didn't fit the club and didn't have the backing of the fans, sound familiar?

Exactly. Our fans like to portray themselves as some sort of loyal, barmy army, when, in reality, since the move away from Wilderspool & the increase of attendances, we have become the most entitled, deluded bunch of supporters in Super League, all on the back of us being the rich kids, who splash the cash about and so, in theory, becoming the Chelsea/Man City of RL.

I suppose the good thing about relegation will be that it will sort out the real fans from the bandwagon jumpers?....

Perhaps Everton stayed up because Frank Lampard's skills in man management, coaching and media engagement with supporters, are far superior than that of Daryl Powell?

Benitez had as good a record as Lampard, didn't he? .....

The fact was, Lampard's appointment changed nothing and it took the fans to actually get behind the team to change things....

There’s one tiny flaw in your Everton argument and that is that Everton had got rid of their ‘Powell’.

I’ll be there against Toulouse and I’ll be cheering them on, as will 99.9% of the fans. I’ll be cheering them on if we go behind but if at the end we have lost to Toulouse and our SL status is in real jeopardy I’ll probably be lobbing eggs at the Warrington Fabrication box.

I know plenty of Everton fans and they would’ve been at Benitez’ throat right up the point of relegation had he still been there.

I don’t think fans expecting the most expensive squad in SL to NOT to get relegated is entitled!! I’ve been home and away for 40 years I just expect better than this coach, he’s rotten in every way and blind faith helps no-one.

So you really think fans don't make a difference? Another of many posts based on a one dimensional viewpoint. To quote the great Obi Wan Kenobe, 'only a sith deals in absolutes'.