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I don't have a link to the Warriors game; I watched it on my Premier Sports subscription, Sometimes you can find the games on youtube, but not always straightaway.

There is a lovely score from Shaun Johnson in it!

its easy to make one player a scapegoat. purely as an outsider looking in, fobbing smith off isn't go to solve anything. play him behind a good pack and he'll be one of the best in the game. SW wants you all playing rough, tough, bash em up the middle rugby and your pack, as I'm sure you're all aware just isn't big enough for that. The one style of attack of running a double X, with the second man out the back throwing a face ball is all to predictable and all.

I've got a lot of respect for Wigan. But its not the players who need looking at, as said before its the coaching staff.

By our club, I assume you're talking about Leeds?

Do you believe that happens anywhere in professional sport?

The coach will contribute for sure, but the guy who signs the cheques is always going to have a say.

If he does he cant you accountable. Here theres some crap players go win the league...

Not sure what you're on about ?
Please enlighten me

You're a Leeds fan - well, all your other usernames are.

My Husband and my 2 children are Rhinos fans

You've forgotten your other two Leeds supporting children and a Bradford supporting Uncle.

I can name them for you given you seem to have forgot them?

I am not sure why this personal issue against me has come about,especially with some of the serial predators that continue to be allowed to troll on here?

To clarify
I am the only Wigan supporter in our household and I only use this username.If I have contravened any rules on here then feel free to ban me,Otherwise I will continue to discuss and vent my anger if required on here

If any of my family have caused any problems on this forum then please feel free to PM me

I will ask them if they have multiple usernames and if they do then I will ask them not to post on here anymore

I'm sure you understand how teenagers and social media work and sometimes they like to be mischievous

Good post. Isa isn't a first team player. In reality he's behind Tomkins Faz and Bateman (to name the obvious). He's played more than expected due to an injury hit pack. Looking at it from this perspective he's actually very good for 3/4 choice; and would arguably get into several other SL clubs.
Our cap management and squad depth has allowed us to finish high in the table regardless of having 5/6/7 starters missing each game.

This has to be considered when discussing recruitment, IL and KR.

If "as good as we will get" is grinding out wins at home to Hull KR, Salford and Wakefield then a lot of folk wont be back next season.

I'm happy to grind wins away at Warrington, Hull and Saints, but I expect to turn them over at the DW where only last season we had a 100% home record in SL fixtures.

Wane talks a lot about the "Wigan Way" - for me the Wigan Way is grinding out wins in games that nobody had us down to win, and comfortably winning the games that we are expected to win. Neither of these have happened this season.

As good as we will get once we have a full squad and with the salary cap restrictions yes, our defence is fine, we may put too much emphasis on it so that our forwards are too tired to run good lines or as dummy runners. We need to focus on our attack and not shackle the players as to me it seems they are frightened to try anything off the cuff.

Exactly. This is by far the worst season I can remember for injuries in over 60 years of watching them. If anything, the club should be proud of how well the "stand-ins" have performed. Without that reserve structure to fall back on, we could easily have gone the way of Leeds.