Improvement next year????

The first thing that needs to change is the culture and outlook of the entire playing staff - attitude, professionalism, fitness, strength, determination, pride etc - all of these things must be instilled from the bottom up and personified by every single member of the team in everything they do. Mr Agar's well publicised tough stance on discipline and behaviour will contribute to that; if a player a) doesn't perform or b) misbehaves, he should be dropped and punished, regardless of who he is.

I think that for next season, we need to develop a system of becoming hard to beat before we start looking for flair and attacking rugby; we need a defence that is fast, ferocious and totally unforgiving - get up in their faces and close down space for those players who can do damage - much like Wire did to Wigan, resulting in even Tomkins S looking very average.

If we can get that right, we should at least avoid the humiliating drubbings that we've been handed every week for the past 8 or 9 games; WTW fans have shown that they respect effort and endeavour, so if we can get that in place, attacking flair can come later - we'll support the team if they can be seen to be working hard and playing with pride.

Whatever systems and processes Mr Agar introduces, we must never see another season like the last 1.5 seasons.