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

Make that 2 now,both off Hull fans.

I think we would all agree with that.

I don't agree with that at all. The three players mentioned are three of our most talented (and probably three of the highest earners).
Smith's job, in the first instance, should be to get the best out of them THIS season - I'm sick of hearing about next year all the time. If they want to bugger off next year, then fine, but for now their wages are paid by Warrington, and they should start damn well earning them.

But if a player doesn't want to play for the club then can you really make them? Can you get the best (or anyhting) out of them if they would rather be somewhere else.

I want to see TS bring the best out of these players as much as anyone else but if they want out then let them.

The only players in our club that strike you as having any work ethic whatsoever are Clarke, Westwood, Morley, Penny, Hicks & Riley. The rest, give you the notion that they could do more, they always look casual, like you never feel they are giving everything.

What worries me, is what effect it has on the younger players, why do ours never become world beaters, probably the environment. Blythe, Harrison, Picks etc, they probably see folk every day, and think this is the norm. You look at say Sinfield, JJB etc, they give you the impression that they train every day like they might never train again, that they give everything they have, there's a ruthless proffesionalism about them, you just don't get that impression from our lot.

We're ok with the s**t players we've already got thanks.

its funny how they were top players till they got to wire