Is it enough nowadays?

He’s worked wonders in the past, especially 2018 but with a much better pool of players and leaders on the pitch (EG OLauchlin) but it will take some building/rebuilding to be anywhere near 2018 levels when Wigan did a Leeds and turned it on for exactly the right few games at the end of the season and won it.

Genuinely want to see Wigan improve, both in results and performance to push the top teams but going back to Wane (especially when most in this forum wanted him out and weren’t enjoying watching the anti-rugby and wrestle) seems like a backward step.

For the love of the game, there needs to be a step up in skill and play, and Wane’s cry for “intensity” doesn’t sound like a step forward and upward to me.

As I said, if teams don’t improve and challenge the top teams, those teams don’t need to play as well and it’s a race to the bottom.

No-one wants to see St Helens cantering to easy trophies every season, even Saints fans! Everyone wants to see a ding-dong challenge on Good Friday and in the Grand Final or CC….


A victory hard fought tastes sweeter than a walkover.

Pressure off Smith initially, Cust and Tommy starting halves. A lot of 2020 games Smith would start on the bench and have a positive impact when he came on.

It could be a strong year for Smith if we take the burden off him. As NSW says above he had a very positive impact at times when coming off the bench and effectively becoming starting half last year did his development no favours. I think Cust will go extremely well and I just hope Tommy has a renaissance last year as often happens. Feeding Smith in for regular game time but without the pressure of expectation he had last year could be the making of him.

Glad, you agree.

Wigan supporters did not see the best of him last season!

Wane Out!!!

Just finished watching the interview.

My word what an inspiration he is. He has me believing we’ll win it in 2022 just from that.