Quote: DaveO "I agree. Given the players he had he got them playing worse than the previous coach. He also failed to meet his own expectations and I am not on about him saying he wanted to win all three trophies but what he said at the start of the season which was he felt he would improve the side. He said he wanted to cut out the losses where we lost close games or where we blew winnable fixtures. He clearly felt he could improve on Madge's record.
He would have been far better adopting the "if it aint broke don't fix it" attitude and just carried on maintaining a continuity of approach from Madge. Had he done so (and it was what I was expecting him to do) rather than changing it as he as done I reckon we would have made both finals.
Had we done that then his job would be safe and he could point to any failure to do the same next year to the loss of all the experience and quality that has just gone out of the door and say we are rebuilding. As it is he has a squad much poorer on paper and yet the pressure will be on to actually get to a final. A much harder thing to do when you look at the 2012 and 2013 squads. I don't think he will get a new contract if we fail to make a final two years in a row even if he delivers another league leaders shield.'"
Agree with that asessment. I feel wane is a victim of his own high standards. The expectations he has set for himself to me seem unrealistic in the current climate.
He wanted to cut out the close defeats and defeats in winnable games and make all the finals (and win them all?), I mean what the hell...... was he expecting wigan to only lose 1 or 2 games all season? Come on. Theres a saying that if you aim for the roof you fall on the floor, if you aim for the sky you fall on the roof. The problem for wane is that he aimed high, but he didn't aim smart. Instead of trying to increase the quality of performance across the season, aim for even higher quality of performance...but in a select period of the season. Win the war, not the battle. Had wane had that mentallity from start to finish I'm sure wigan would have been contesting that grand final last week, and quite possibly the CC final as well.
Maybe Wane was also victim of his need to impress, a new coach in his first full time role at a club he loves wants to go out and win lot's of games, playing sparkling rugby.
Wanes card is marked now. Hull are coming, warrington will be no weaker next season, leeds will still be sniffing around and saints are a wild card with the new coach, but wigan, as recruitment stands, look weaker. If wane doesn't adopt the right approach next season he is gone.
''He will be dealt with appropriatley, he will be taken care of'' *he says while stroking an extremley furry, smug looking cat*
