Kel Coslett introduced himself to the Wigan players in their first training session (and subsequently to the press, when various players rang the newspapers afterwards) by telling them he didn't even want the job and was only at Central Park until a vacancy appeared at St Helens.

Lam may not be much of a coach, but I think we can safely say that in terms of professionalism, he is streets ahead of that.

I don't really get the complaints about our outside backs. Were it not for some excellent finishing last night from Marshall and Bobby, the score-line would have looked even bleaker..And Miski looks like he culd be useful.The proposed back five would hardly be that awful, but I too would worry about Smith and Field in the halves. Field is still an unknown quantity with limited first-grade experience, and Smith, well, he just makes too many errors/takes too many wrong options for me.

There was am interview on Sky with Lam, and also one on Wigan tv.

The Sky one wasn't shown post match due to time restraints.

If ever there was a moment for management to replace his coach it's this one: https://twitter.com/WiganWarriorsRL/sta ... 30597?s=19 "We are trying to be a top four team" How far we've fallen.

If ever there was a moment for management to replace his coach it's this one: https://twitter.com/WiganWarriorsRL/sta ... 30597?s=19 "We are trying to be a top four team" How far we've fallen.

It's not been announced yet. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

I would have expected it to be announced by now if Lam was staying, they must know if they want him or not. The danger is, if they have decided he's going and they announce that, it undermines him for the rest of this season and probably does more harm than good.

IL isn't really the kind to sack a manager, to me it looks like trying to steady the ship and not create distraction at this point in the season, when in theory we are still well in with a chance mathematically.

It could be another month or so before we hear one way or the other.

IIRC we didn't know Noble was going until he announced it straight after the last game. I could see the same happening with Lam where he knows but it's kept private till we are out.

Yeah pretty much what I was thinking. Wouldn't surprise me if they've gone down the NRL number 2 route again

Not sure about that. Lenegan usually goes out there and does those kind of deals himself and if he had been out of the country im sure we would have heard about it. It'l be Matty Peet. It's so underwhelming to think that might happen. Hope to god i am wrong though. If that was the choice then i'd rather have Danny Ward but even then it says to me that mediocrity will be the new norm.

I can't even think about that as an option.

It will be Peet

It will all be done remotely this year, no chance of non nationals getting in Aus for a while.

That's one way creating more despondency!

I watched it again this morning and it is equally frustrating as I thought on Friday evening. Terrible first 20 minutes but then we looked a decent team for 15 minutes before half time.

You would then think after half time we would come out and continue but alas we didn’t. And to be honest, I don’t know why I was surprised. Under Lam, we’ve often threatened to break out into a decent team but then flattered to deceive. I also think the club are misinterpreting the supporters’ mood massively; they tweet out this morning ‘it’s derby week ’ but we’re dreading it.

They need to announce the new coaching structure and get some optimism back amongst us ASAP. I’m happy with Wane as a DoR and Peet as head coach, they know what a Wigan team should look like. I think we’ve lost some of that identity over the last 3 seasons whilst pursuing this ‘flamboyant attacking’ style that has never come.