6. Put it down to a bad start and work to achieve better. Strangely enough these do happen even for the best teams in world sports. (hmm United rings a bell)
7. Ignore the fickle fans asking for every man and his dogs head.

Its not 2 games though its 2 seasons of consistantly poor performance.

Its great coming home with our tails up, but pointless is we have given ourselves too much to do.

A new coach you would hope would alter our game plan that is the single most self destructive i have ever seen in pro rugby, to name 1 of many other advantages of brining in a new coach.

I dont agree mate, one win away from the GF last two seasons, beaten by the winners.

But what about all the boring crap you had to watch leading up to the play offs? Doesn't the quality of our play concern you at all?

Yes it does especially when Saints play an exciting brand of RL. But looking at Nobbys achievements to date we havent dont that bad i dont think. We are over loaded on backs so maybe moving the ball a bit more would be pleasing on the eye. I met Tony Smith two years ago and he said that Leeds and Saints make the most errors in their own 22, but are the most successfull teams.

To answer your question we are methodical and boring but havent gone too bad.

I'm in the pro Noble camp too!
Just don't see the point of unloading him at all. Whoever came in things wouldn't be able to change quickly.
He and IL have achieved a lot. Our team was a shambles and heading for NL1. He kept us up but the inherited problems will take years to resolve.
He is trying to establish a squad that will play together for years by bringing in the accelerate squad as a direct pathway to the first team.
End of this season a number of players will go but perhaps none from our academy. They will provide the bedrock of our squad for years to come.
He will replace those that leave by better players as he has done this year and that can only be done at the end of players' contracts.
The rugby has been poor to watch but some of our players aren't the best.
My worry is that he'll walk or take up a better offer.
I can't see Tony Smith lasting in the England job and Noble could do that full time no problem and bring success to the national squad.
Unless he gets that job or one in Aus I would rather him stay.
Stability at Wigan is still needed, he and Ian Lenagan are bringing that.