Also just to say, i wonder if the club are questioning the benefit of the australia trip this year.

This comment from atkins has stuck in my head since pre season

Its this bit of Atkins personal diary from that very same trip that got me thinking

Humour in adversity, no one does it better than a Wire fan.

Could it be that TS had a shopping list of players he would like to sign and SM told him that there was no money to spend?
There are several players who the media have speculated were coming to Warrington but have subsequently signed for other clubs.

Apart from me, hey, Uncle Rico?

I had begun to think nobody would come up with that speculation.
It seems obvious to me that happened.
Posters on here would have gone straight for the throat if I had have said that.

its more likely to be the other way around.

The money is there to spend, but TS didnt feel it was required.

The money has always been there for TS and PC to spend, if they wanted a player and it cost a fee it was still done. Why would that position change?
TS has put faith in a squad and that faith has backfired.

Just thank our lucky stars Mick Higham has actually improved at a point in his career in which he should be declining.
Thank our lucky stars that a Championship prop defied the odds to become a starting prop internationally.

Without the go forward of those two we'd be abysmal.

hard to really argue with that.... only really Westwood can stand up and be counted with those 2. All the others are a bit 'meh'

I was told that the money was there but the quality was not, he was not prepared to bring in overseas players who are only equal too or less than the quality we aready have, makes sense really. Why buy if what you want is not available. I also believe that the possibility is that the player/s that he wanted may be available this year ??
Who knows.

Here's me thinking we have moved on?

"I thought Bradford were terrific, they out-enthused us. Yeh, we have got some things to work on but we did some good things too; so the squad bus turned up at the stadium on time, and all the guys managed to pull their jerseys on without any help from Bob....."

No I don't think TS has taken Wire as far as he can. He is still a top quality coach, it's his judgement that is in question following the recruitment round, plus (for me) the decision to hang on to an old squad rather than slowly replacing them. But he will be hurting, and his pride will have had a knock. He will wan't to put it right, otherwise there will always be a black mark against his career.

I think where we end up now (at the end of the season), will depend on his ability to restore morale which must be dropping fast. Low morale is the real killer which he has to avoid at all costs; 'that way madness lies'.

Hasler needs a fresh challenge

no argument, they did... its unfortunate we came up short in the 2 big games



i know its football, but people said the same thing about everton for years. You cant hold back on change when the times right.



I think ole gunnar solskaer is taken



you know every well none of those would be considered....

maybe we could change the way people think and appoint a visionary like Phil Clarke.