transition season , you cant win them all , Wigan will be there or there abouts by the end of the season but probably not good enough to win it . As a neutral you are really suffering the loss of
ST ( even though he was going downhill)
Bateman
Tommy isn't good enough
Escare isn't good enough
lack of good quality players like MM to fill in .

GW is more of a icing the cake player , looks really good in a good side , but just doesn't pull the side together when struggling, I would cash in on him and bring in a good half back partnership, need to bring a new good pair of halfbacks and hooker through the ranks .

I've never rated Williams and is never a marquee player IMO

transition season? one every 10 years in our club

No mention of the captain having a stinker can do no wrong

If this is a transition year then I can accept that, we have just come through a relatively successful period where whe have been in or around the trophys for a good few years. A year around mid table is no great shame as long as there are plans in place to get us back up to the front in the years to come.

What worries me is keeping hearing the likes of Rads stating that we are spending up to the cap, its feels an awful lot like a cop out to hide the fact that we are cutting back on our wage bill. Looking at the talent in our squad I'm finding it difficult to see where that money is being spent. We are either paying some players more than they are worth, which for me is poor management or we are hiding behind the cap to excuse the lack of recruitment.

It was Kris Radlinski's idea to bring Adrian Lam in. Lenagan's to wait until 2020 for Edwards.

I'm not convinced the one year contract for Lam is having a significant impact on performance. Losing Wane and Bitcon along with apathy after a GF win and WCC are likely the main factors. Plus injuries, inadequate recruitment and a coach with little to no head coach experience.

Careful, that's a no no on here, you'll have other fans calling you names

Agreed,Lam is on a hiding to nothing with this stupid plan I mean other than Lenegan who really thought this was going to be a grandstand winner of an idea?

I know I didn’t

Most of this board thought Lenegan was a master tactician. I posted the craziness of it all months ago and got verbally abused for it. Same with my suggestion that given our circumstances we should of called off the WCC this year and focused on the season ahead. I could see how difficult it was going to be without the distraction of the WCC and the low that would come after what was always certain defeat.

Stop changing the goalposts. You thought we were going to be embarrassed and we weren't. Stop trying to justify it with opportunistic claptrap like this. Would you like me to copy and paste your original post where you go into great detail about how you think we'll have a poor start to the season... Not!

There you go mate as your memory is clearly not what it used to be...

Hey, dont take your anger out on me because we are in a dire situation.

You seem to be unable to read.

In my second line i point out why we should of pulled out and it is directly related to the need for us to concentrate on the season ahead if you expand your thinking, all of what i said is related to a bigger picture.

[iWith us losing our two best players, a new coach thats only supposed to be keeping the seat warm for a year and a formidable team waiting for us, i think we should of pulled out of the game. [/i

not sure why people think it's such a bad idea , you've lost a hefty part of the team and a coach , if you want Edwards then you pretty much had to have an interim coach , Lam is a good choice , who else would you have for a short period ? unless you rule Edwards out you aren't going to entice a big name coach , besides its a squad that need rebuilding , you can't win every year . I can't see things being much different if Wane would have stayed.

Only thing that confuses me is how on earth did Wgan break the cap ? There squad doesn't look like a cap breaking one , for me though the cap needs to go , its killing the game .

The cap breach was in 2017 when we still had Sam Tomkins on marquee money, Joel Tomkins, McIlorum, Nuausala etc.