Please don't tell me we are gonna play like Huddersfield, I have just bought my season ticket . I know it worked but God they were boring to watch.

Our defence will be solid no doubt about it, we will concede less points than we have done for the last 3-4 seasons no doubt. It will be a very pressure building style of rugby and expansive when it needs to be, most likely we will keep it tight and play the percentages and gain field positions and this will be very effective if we do it well, which we never did under Noble. I am quite sure we will play a lot deeper and will be shifting the ball across really well. Centres will link up with the wingers and halves alot more.

The message I am getting is about fitness and defence. Two topics that come up a lot when MaGuire/Wane speak.

Dont say that cos we have to put up with that for 3 years now

Now now, it was more like 3 drives and a knock on

Defence is one of the areas I can really see us focusing on for next season.

It’s an area which was relatively strong last season and with a little bit of tweaking and adding that one for all never say die spirit Wane has it could become the corner stone of any potential success.

I’d love nothing more for us to get a rep of being a hard defensive team. Lets have teams turning up to the DW knowing it’s gonna take something special to score past us and also knowing they are gonna be in for one tough game as well.

Defence like saints and hudds would win us trophies IMO we don't usually have much trouble putting points on the board. Our attack will improve also as the forwards will be much better under Wane, kicking will be better with Deacon, more field positions means more points.

The aussies in the four nations stood really deep when attacking, have we seen the end of the flat attack or does it still have its place?

Deep running is more effective when moving the ball wide but the flat game should be used around the PTB to put people through a gap and also close to the line.

I think Deacon when on the field will be doing alot of the kicking. In the super league era he has been one of the best. In his prime he was putting out kicks like Thurston a lot of the time. Hopefully he can do this for us, when we have the field position and when our props play well we often look unbeatable in some games but we fall appart with no field position.

As long as we score more than we concede I will be happy, Style and expansive rugby can come when we get a consistent way of playing.

Fairplay, but we don't want to go down Hudds route.

If MM can sort our defence out then we will be there or thereabouts.

Just look what can happen when a defence orientated coach comes in!!



Pre Graham Lowe


1985-1986 Slalom Lager Championship
- Team P W D L A A Pts
1 Halifax 30 19 6 5 499 365 44
2 Wigan 30 20 3 7 776 300 43



Graham Lowe

1986-1987 Stones Bitter Championship
- Team P W D L A A Pts
1 Wigan 30 28 0 2 941 193 56
2 St Helens 30 20 1 9 835 465 41
3 Warrington 30 20 1 9 728 464 41



Brian Noble

2009 Engage Super League XIII Final Table
- Team P W D L F A Diff Pts
1 Leeds Rhinos 27 21 0 6 805 453 +352 42
2 St Helens 27 19 0 8 733 466 +267 38
3 Huddersfield Giants 27 18 0 9 690 416 +274 36
4 Hull Kingston Rovers 27 17 1 9 650 516 +134 35
5 Wakefield Wildcats 27 16 0 11 685 609 +76 32
6 Wigan Warriors 27 15 0 12 659 551 +108 30




MM

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Maybe we do at the start of the season.

It’s imperative that we start strongly and set our intentions out from the get go and if that means unattractive ruby then so be it.

As long as we know that we can’t stay on that track all season and our style has to develop as our confidence does.

Plus it’s always good to know we can revert 2 a plan B- If further on in the season we need to squeeze a win out it’s good to know we can.

The problem comes if you need to do more than squeeze a win out then like Hudds your found wanting.

If we play the same style of rugby as Melbourne Storm next season, that will do for me...