Quote: DaveO "I completely agree. Never mind 2010, we have gone from double winners to a rebuilding process in an off season. That is just poor. Fans can see this and are frustrated when it manifests itself by poor performances against the liles of London with not that many changes to the team.
Many predicted problems at Warrington as they hung onto players too long. Our problems are because we don't hold onto players long enough and/or manage the departure of key players well enough.'"
I agree with your argument to an extent, but a lot of our double winning season was made up of poor and lacklustre performances. We lost 7 out of our last 9 regular SL games, but ultimately it didn't really matter as we picked up both major trophies. I think this has resulted in a lot of fans become disillusioned with the weekly rounds, which is why we have seen a drop in our average attendance and number of ST holders.
It is the current league system that is flawed and is allowing teams to peak at the right time of the season. In 2011, we were the current champions and added Finch, Hoffman and Lima to a largely unchanged squad and ended up completely dropping off at the business end of the season, so it is not just a recruitment issue that is causing our poor performances atm, and we don't really know what effect the WCC has had.
I'm not saying for one minute that I expect it to all come good and we'll end up doing the double again, but there needs to be some perspective in how we're currently playing and look at is as a season as a whole. Playing as badly as we have, we've still won 6 of our last 7, and that includes being 6 seconds from victory at Cas.