The arrogance on him thinking he can just stroll back to Wigan is astounding. We were gutted to lose him but have moved on and are developing other forwards.

He should have been patient and had faith that Wigan knew how to develop him.

Making him an 80 minute player week in week out at his age probably wasn’t the way to go hence the injuries he’s had.

He’ll stick around a Wire until the NRL want him I reckon

How do we recruit quality players when we're playing crap and have a well below expectations of a clueless management setup.
Fitzgibbon I reckon will end up at an NRL club next season saves him stating he's homesick when he realises he's coming to a nsw quality team.
It's just rank....

I'm really losing patience in Powell, he was supposed to bring a change of culture, yet the same negatives are still evident that have been there for years, apart from a few years of the Tony Smith era. Making things easy for the opposition with stupid penalties or unforced errors, clueless in attack in the opposition 20m, lack of game management and the inability to turn the screw on a team once ahead.
I still wouldn't feel confident with us 10 points ahead with 15 minutes to go against any team in the league just now.
I can't see next season being any better.

Powell still banging on about missing players. Thinks he should have a full squad at this time of the year and anything less justifies your results.

The missing players excuse was justified a few weeks ago, when we had a lot of forwards out and couldn’t really compete against bigger, better packs. Last night we were missing a winger, a stand off and a second row.

The pack got dominated, our kicking game was non-existent and we were ill disciplined throughout. A bit of Clark brilliance made a game of it in the first half, but once they got into stride we couldn’t keep up with them in any area. I

Imagine what we will look like without Clark.

Quote from an online article redetest[/i the treatment the like of Dean has received.

You’ll get some saying it’s the fans that won’t have patience with young players….utter garbage, it’s cowardly coaching that’s the problem. Powell is a ruddy disaster.

Missing backs would improve things but only one forward missing. Our so-called super pack couldn't handle a fitter and faster outfit whose average age is years younger than ours. Same old story. They develop we get a bunch of over 30s

Thankfully, Clark ,Russell & one or two others had a go last night against Wigan who stayed in second gear most of the night. They could have hammered us but only opened up when they needed to. Once again we were losing too much ground in defence too many times,

You're getting Dwyer aren't you?

Welcome to another episode of " Can't Coach... Won't Coach "!!

Good effort from your pack in the first half, particularly the line speed in defence but it was inevitable that they would run out of steam.