Re: It's time to pull the trigger : Tue May 15, 2012 10:27 pm
Northampton_Saint wrote:
Oh FFS.... What is wrong with you anyway? Noone is arguing that many Saints players are massively underperforming and many have for a long time, while Wigan are all riding the crest of a wave - similar to the reversed Saints/Wigan situation immediately pre-Maggie with many of the same players in situ on both sides in fact. Would you have argued that every single one of Wigan's players were worse than every single Saint back then? Don't be so patently one-eyed and ridiculous.
Many/Most of Saints' current squad would outperform most of Wigan's given the same coaching and tactics. At the moment they're performing like a pile of cack because they aren't and haven't for nearly 4 years now. That does not make them bad players for the rest of eternity...
Many/Most of Saints' current squad would outperform most of Wigan's given the same coaching and tactics. At the moment they're performing like a pile of cack because they aren't and haven't for nearly 4 years now. That does not make them bad players for the rest of eternity...
Calm down. I wasn't trying to be provocative. The key words were "on current form". Yes you have some real quality but most of those players aren't delivering. Some of it is down to coaching and some down to the players' own work ethic. I think the standards and culture of the club have gone a bit awry.
I was sniped at on the Wigan board in the mid-noughties for saying that standards had been slipping and that the culture of the club was wrong and that we needed to clear out the backroom staff as well as the coaching staff and a number of players. I wasn't the only one saying this, but most did not want to hear. Second best had become acceptable and the will to win/fear of losing wasn't there anymore.
We did have a radical clear out of coaching and backroom staff and some changes to the squad. The end result was that the old Wigan standards and culture seem to have come back. Whether or not SW is as shrewd a tactician and technical coach as MM remains to been, but there does not seem to have been any lowering of standards.
I suspect Brown will do a similar job for you that Madge did for us, but you will need more than just one person to get your players playing to their potential. In addition, the players need to take more responsibility for their own underperformance.