A good win would have papered over the fundamental problems at the club.

Yeah, it's fantastic losing by 50+ points because you know nothing is going to come of it.

I don't think so, we finally have a top quality coach who is a proven winner who won't be fooled by one win.

The problem is he has the rest of the season to put up with someone elses players.

Thank God for the francise system

i'd like to think we've finally hit rock ing bottom.

Some of them are here until the 2011 season. Monaghan and King spring to mind.

(typo there)

I've forgot all about Tony Smith been at Wire!

I presume they can still go on a transfer list though??....The likes of Monaghan and King would be snapped up immediately by an Aussie club if we made them available....and much of our other rubbish would also be snapped up if made available, simply because, quite bizarrely, individually they are seen as decent players.

There are lots of clubs that would love the quality of players that you consider rubbish. Salford, Celtic, Quins (they have two players signed from NL2 ffs). You could deffo unload unwanted players.

I agree entirely....and we should start to offload immediately.

And yes, I consider them rubbish, because for the most part, thats what they are.

Offloading plasyers during the season would stupid. Dont say play the reserves becasuse you know thats daft.

Let the new coach work with the players. Let him sort the low confidence ones from the ones who don't care and well make moves during the off season.

A real low today but we will get better.

Fair enough, off loading a vast number of the squad would indeed be a bit silly.

However, I think the time has come for Tony Smith to drag EVERY member of the squad into his office individually, and for him to ask each of them the simple question...

'DO YOU STILL WANT TO BE AT THIS CLUB NEXT SEASON?'

Any no's (Gleeson, Monaghan, probably King) should be immediately dropped from the side, and placed on the transfer list and replaced with youngsters.

All those wishing to stay should be closely monitored, and not given an affirmative answer to their future at the club until the very LAST game of this season.

It's always in the future for you lot, what about the present?

I'll wager Smith is thinking the same thing.

We wanting to offload them and the players agreeing to it are wholly different propositions.

the present was a 60 point drubbing away at quins, so we need to look forward to next week(the future) the rest of the season(the future) and next year and onwards(still the future) whereupon smith can hopefully undo some of the damage done by lowes(past) and to a lesser extent cullen(also past)

Can it change in a week?

Aye, maybe we'll only concede 40.............

we thoguht it had changed partly in a thursday afternoon and friday at the leeds game last week, we seem to have regressed badly in a week, that is unless the players were sulking and trying to send smith a message, by playing badly on purpose,

of couse, i couldn't possibly suggest that at all could i.

We reckon there's gonna be a backlash, and therefore a very much fired up Wire side...

We should take the game though.

I have a feeling the only backlash will be from the fans.

I thought I was on the wigan board for a moment then

Nah, there is only 1 locked thread so far on this forum, not 15,000.

Sensitive mods on the wigan board....

they do a bloody good job do the moderators, they have to sift through all the crap to try and keep a board running smoothly, right on sisters.


don't anyone be looking back through my posts for comments prior to me becoming a mod though, gits.

Y2k - 2010 Decade of the Wolf