Never a sentence that fills me with much hope!

Kearney and Walters are working under the best in the business, what had Madge achieved before joining Wigan? We need NRL input in my opinion, work on skills tactic quality.

In relation to it being a transition season not many would have said that a month ago it was all positive we have a top squad etc.

Even if it is as you say a transitional season it didn't need to be there were plenty of players on the market we could have signed in the positions you quote that would do a job for us, Burns and Campese at 6 Simms, Vea, Pea, etc. instead we have sat on our hands and followed this ridiculous succession policy.

I have said it in the past the Wigan youth system is outstanding, without doubt but a great youth system and fielding a full home grown team doesn't get you trophies. How long will we continue to chase rainbows?

At the age of 20 McGuire had started 1 game in the first team, Sinfield 19 and Burrow 16. Sinfield didn't play in the halves. Also Leeds signed Andre Dunemann when McGuire and Burrow were 21 years of age. Dunemann was there for three years and made more starts than either of them.

Hampshire has started 11 for Wigan and were only five games into the season so his starts compare favourably with Burrow and McGuire.

Isn't this the problem? There's no settled half back combination which disrupts the ability to get the timing of various plays right. Time and time again we see teams struggle when the half back pairing is disrupted, Saint's last year, whenever we have Lockers in at 6 and so forth.

I didn't get to Hull last week but from what I hear and read, Wigan were dominant but timing was out.

I've mentioned it a few times to friends when discussing the current season. It looks to me as though Wigan have done a lot of fitness training but not enough actual ball work.

I'm happy to see that others are beginning to see the limitations of Wane has as a coach.

My main bug bear is I don't think he's getting the most out of our current group of players. Yes I don't think that we are as strong as in recent seasons but we are certainly better than current form suggests.

The Hampshire situation, imo, sums up how Wane is making life harder than it needs to be. We have the current England academy 6 in Hampshire who is a natural attacking player.

I see the reservations about playing a kid BUT he's got plenty of quality and experience around him in the side. Smith is the current England 7, Sarg is a current England Centre and he's got the whole English back row to work with. It's not like it's a team of also rans that we have.

Logan Tomkins is in the team tonight so it's a safe bet Hampshire isn't.

He'll need more injuries to get anywhere near a spot that isn't fullback.

You are putting way too much pressure on these kids. Expectations are sky high. Wane is absolutely right to keep the youngsters on ice. When high expectations collide with unpredictable reality careers can be destroyed before they've even begun.

Look at what happened to Gaskell at Saints. First season he's instrumental in getting the club to a GF (against the odds, I might add)

Today he's playing for Bradford.

And it's nothing to do with ability (or lack thereof). The lad has it in spades.

He's playing really well for Bradford though (including last season against better opposition). He'll be back with a top-4 Super League club next season, I'd wager.

He is. But it's been a LONG road back to form. Something has gone drastically wrong somewhere when a talented kid goes from a stellar opening season to the championship within a couple of years.

And Wigan are running precisely the same kind of risk. Perhaps bigger because Gaskell didn't make his debut with every Saints fan in the house already having booked their seats for the Second Coming.

That's my concern also. Somebody has suggested getting Shorrocks in. He too is a very good young player but nowhere near ready for first team yet, especially in such an important position.

Sadly, and it comes back to my point above, that's the position they have been put in.

We haven't replaced Green so we have to play one of the youngsters. We also cant keep swapping and changing our 6 for each game.

Let me ask you a question - what's worse, picking/sticking with Hampshire and asking him to deal with the pressure or keep rotating three lads whilst picking them to play different positions? For me the latter is the worst of the two as its setting them and the team up for a fail. Williams isn't a 6 and Rocky isn't a 1. Asking both to play in unnatural positions whilst occasionally playing 6 every 3 weeks is far far worse than chucking them in the deep end in positions they are comfortable in.

Ideally we'd have signed a Campese type guy and brought Rocky through slowly at 6 and Williams though slowly at 7. The current situation isn't the best but it's one needlessly created by Wane/Radders/IL.

Then why didn't we go in for him?

If Wheeler's worth a spot at Warrington then Gaskell is definitely worth a run at Wigan. Maybe not now you've committed. But certainly last season.

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