Tony smith tony smiths tactics or lack of tony smiths indifference tony smiths recruitment n.tony smiths team selection??

This is a side he has built or dismantled depends how you look at it, we persevered with cull for too long and maybe doing the same with smith. Sentiment and past results dint win games re

Did you have a chance of making the top 4 when the super 8's started?

What's with the mouthy Leigh fan that seems to be obsessed about posting on this forum?

No. The team wasn't good enough before a ball was kicked. We didn't just suddenly turn shaat last month.

Please feel free not to turn up next Friday, if we (Wigan) lose and given our away form that's not stretching the bounds of possibility, we'll be under all sorts of pressure to make the top four, same as Saints.

Smith can go, past performances mean jack s--t

He's gone stale, he totally mismanged the transition, recruited averagely and i'm sick of his B.S excuses...TELL THE F-KIN TRUTH when it is plain to see, sick of him lying to the fans when we already know the truth.

Get someone fresh in, remember Wigan recruiting 'Madge' no one knew of him and he transformed that clubs culture.

put a quid on all that lot if it comes in you can retire...

I admire your optimism, Thelonius.
Unfortunately, I've more chance of having a pooh in The Queen's handbag

I do use the words 'miracle' and 'dramatic turn around in our fortunes', and I'm not crazy enough to expect us to go on to win our next fives, but as I also said, 'stranger things have happened'.

Surely we still want to finish as high as we can this season, even if that only means fifth rather than sixth or holding onto sixth rather than drop to seventh or eighth. The only possible dead rubber I can foresee us being involved in at the minute is if we are fixed in sixth and Saints are fixed in second or third come the last game of the season.

That's the thing that "piddles me off", Thelonius

We DO have the capability of WINNING all 5.
We also have the capability of LOSING all 5 (which will make 8 on the bounce).

Sad, really. Four years ago, losing 3 on the bounce would be inconceivable. Now, it's almost expected

No.....We didn't have a chance of the top 4 all season. ..In fact dig up some old posts on here many didn't think we would make the 8.....

If I remember only the all new Chester Wire thought we would make the top 4 and also Saints fan saddened. ..but he's never right

With the signings of Daryl Clark and Ashton Sims ,I felt we had the opportunity to improve on 2014 but, it just hasn't worked out ,hardly been able to field the same team all season ,the depth of our squad was not good enough for this new format,we will learn and be better next season ,though I think RFL may have to look at salary cap again ,if teams need to have bigger squads to compete

That doesn't make sense to me cutter...
How does increasing the salary help teams to compete against each other?

Problems with system, problems with the salary cap....don't see any Hudds, Stains, Leeds or Pies fans talking about this. I wonder why? We weren't good enough. It's done, build a loving bridge and get over it. We will be better next year with new signings and hopefully less injuries.

No league fixture against the Pies will ever be a dead rubber for me and I'm looking forward to it. And the others for that matter. It would be nice to put a dent in a few other team's hopes before the season is out and we will

I love it when we beat the Pies, it was the measure of how good our season was for 3 decades.
Never having a hope of winning ewt like this season was common place.

Let's be realistic, how many of us really thought we had a top 4 team before a ball was kicked this season?
I sure for one didn't, I peed enough of you off saying how poor our hb combo is and how lightweight our pack is all season.

What is frustrating and disheartening, is that when I'd became blindingly obvious, we were average, is the stubbornness from TS to address it.