Agree with all of that....

I thought Bowen did ok for the first 65/70 minutes. He was pretty safe in defence and also offered a bit in attack (set up the first two tries). Hampshire was poor for a few games before he was dropped, so Bowen deserves a chance. Hampshire hopefully will be on the bench in place of Powell but Wane won't go that way.

There's no way wane will not play his very average love child of a player that is powell

He's not done anything this season but that's unfair. He has showed a lot of potential in the opast, particularly against New Zealand Warriors when he tore them apart and Hull FC when we almost beat them with an academy side. He'll become an established SL halfback IMO, not confident that will be at Wigan though.

I could write an essay on what my views are of the Wigan club at the moment. I've only been watching them since the 1950's.

Last week was bloody shocking, and it's not the only time we have performed like this this season
is it ?
It is happening on a regular occurence. I didn't particularly like Wanes appointment as I think he lacks an high IQ, but I have to admit he has done better than I thought. He has not been helped by our Chairman, who I think is 'tighter than a ducks bum'. We have lost player after player over the seasons, and they haven't been replaced with similar quality.

Now, back to the present.

Against Leeds, I think we might get slaughtered. And I can't see a win for the foreseeable future.

There has been too much 'pennypinching' at the club, and we are now suffering badly with that policy. The problem with businessmen is, they all love money too much. We are living in this 'austerity cycle 'that shows no sign of abatement in life, and the consequence is no one complains about falling standards anymore.

This team is not the club I have followed for many decades. There seems to be no desire, and the quality is not there.

Even 'Lockers' has been a shadow of his former self, of late. Can we name one player at Wigan, that we could say would get in any in RL team anywhere at the moment ? The answer to that is no.

...and yet despite that, we are third in the table, have scored the second most points in the league, and conceded the third fewest .

Go figure, eh?

And have just secured the signature of one of the UK's best players.

We're in a rut, for sure, but for some people the glass is always half-empty.

It's a shame Gells is injured because I bet Wane would be wondering about throwing Sarge in at full back and playing Joel and Gelling at centre. Was superb against Hull FC last year, and his horrible defence recently won't be too much of a worry back there.

Out of Bowen and Hampshire, I'd stick with Mango. I still think he offers more than Rocky does, even though I do rate Hampshire, I just don't think he is a full back. Really think this could be the weekend which we turn our away form around, it would just be typical Wigan to do it in the hardest away game possible!

This pops up time and time again and I'd love to know who has spent more on transfer fees than IL

Off the top of my head
J Tomkins
S Tomkins
M Smith
S Taylor
M Gleeson
L Mossop
D Sarginson
T Clubb
J Bateman?
I Thornley?
T Tautai?

Apart from the bottom 3, who I'm not 100% sure about, we paid a transfer fee of some sort for these lads. Give me the name of another club that has paid a transfer fee for 11 players over the past few years? In fact give me the name of a club that's paid a transfer fee for 5 players over the past few years.

Sure we paid about £50k for Bateman and possibly something for Thornley. I believe TT was out of contract

How dare you let facts get in the way of a good old fashioned rant.

So, apart from paying significant amounts of money on transfer fees what has IL ever done for us?

Did we pay for blake green????

Yes

Sam Hopkins (the invisible man), who the good Dr is now getting interested in.