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| Quote: rubber duckie "I think completely the opposite.I think the sport has never been healthier and your misgivings are more home sorrows.
Wigan woes aren't a complete mirror of when they almost went bust in the 90s but there are some similarities.
Budgeting full time contracts on the back of chance....getting to finals. That's Wigan's problem...for the outlay, you simply haven't been in enough finals to balance the investment.
In 2018 Wigan really needed a Wembley visit with full cap and 2 marquess....the GF was a help but that pot gets spread a little too thinly...and the merchandising doesn't scratch the surface of Wembley.
Lessons don't seem to be learnt, and Lenagan is having to scale back to address financial in-balance...he is aware of that much unlike predicessors.'"
Interesting.
Personally I think the standard of SL has plummeted. The sport is dying.
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| Quote: Call Me God "Whilst I sympathise with Wigan's plight at present, I fail to see how we (London) are lucky to be in SL, given we battled our way to 5th place in the middle 8's, then traveled to the hot favourites on a different continent and then won an arm wrestle of a game by sticking to our game plan. We're not lucky to be in SL, we earned our spot and with a team filled with as much home grown talent as any other now in SL.
Good luck for the rest of the season.'"
to wigan fans every other teams achievements are down to luck...
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| Quote: Call Me God "Whilst I sympathise with Wigan's plight at present, I fail to see how we (London) are lucky to be in SL, given we battled our way to 5th place in the middle 8's, then traveled to the hot favourites on a different continent and then won an arm wrestle of a game by sticking to our game plan. We're not lucky to be in SL, we earned our spot and with a team filled with as much home grown talent as any other now in SL.
Good luck for the rest of the season.'"
Excellent post.
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| Quote: OSWire1993 "to wigan fans every other teams achievements are down to luck...'"
He doesn’t speak on behalf of all Wigan fans. Thanks for coming.
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| Quote: OSWire1993 "to wigan fans every other teams achievements are down to luck...'"
And to the rest of SL, Wigan's achievements are down to cheating, thuggery, etc.
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I don't deny that the sport in the UK is not in great shape, although I think fears of it going semi-pro in the foreseeable future are over-stated. But we should let Wigan's current travails bleed too much into our view of SL as a whole. To those who say, the standard of SL is plummeting, I generally respond, if that we true, the Aussies would be putting 50-60 on us every game, but in fact we're arguably as competitive against them now as we were in the 'good old days'. to which the response is, but that's only the case because of the NRL experience in the England side. At any rate, there are enough good players kicking around SL to provide some great entertainment, as we see on TV every week. Just not at the DW at the moment.
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