Quote: sergeant pepper "If anything watching Saints get absolutely and deservedly outclassed just made me sad.
Madge set us up for a prolonged period of success and it's all slowly being picked away.
Wane has to take the lion share of the blame due to the way he's flooded the side with kids and moved away from that low error, low penalty, nasty defence that we had. He purposely give it the big i am when he took over and, imo, he's had 1 good season out of 3 in charge.
IL has to also take the blame for letting a special group of players slowly break apart.
What i wouldn't give to see an experienced team playing that brutal defence week in week out.'"
Maguire set up the systems, but had no interest in playing the youngsters.
He threw away any chance of winning the league his second year by flogging the players to win the Challenge Cup.
Great coach, but he's not a saint.
Wigan are succeeding under difficult circumstances - when your 20yo winger would rather off to Australia rather than establish himself in SL what can you do? Youngsters are the way forward, as Saints/Warrington/Leeds are finding now - we've just been ahead of the curve as usual.