Re: Inglis : Mon May 03, 2021 10:39 am  

Douglas Black wrote:

Only two out of St Helens, Wigan, Leeds, Warrington, Hull (what I assume are the big five English spenders) plus Catalans can win a trophy each year.

Yep.
I do get a bit fed up with the silly idea that we are the only ones spending top money. It is total rubbish but it keeps being regurgitated.

Re: Inglis : Mon May 03, 2021 10:49 am  

Fantastic Mr Catpiss wrote:

I've mentioned this on here before, 2014 and 2015 are remembered as being poop years where we were a mile below the 2010-2013 squads.

People do forget that we finished both those seasons in grand final eliminators, iirc it was 2014 that Wigan got to the final with the skin of their teeth.

We were absolute hot garbage in both challenge cup semi finals though

Yet that was still not good enough for the fans, even with the best coach in a generation at the helm. Powell needs a fast start, and needs to spend wisely. He’s already put himself on record for being solely responsible for signing players, the buck stops with him next year. New hand picked coaching staff, relatively blank slate with an open cheque book to start again, with a number of key players (Cooper, Currie etc) locked in.

The pressure, unless we crash and burn this year, will be massive. The best he can hope for is that we stumble and fall this season playing in a poor style.

Re: Inglis : Mon May 03, 2021 1:04 pm  

easyWire wrote:

No. Which is the point I was making. I was just saying that also it wasn’t the disaster that Furner was at Leeds.

But... a Wigan side with Bateman, Hastings, French, Hardaker, Gildart, Farrell, Manfredi and arguably the biggest selection of quality youth available simply MUST win something this year or Lam will be considered more of a failure than Price, no?

Yep, Lam will be gone if he doesn’t win a trophy this year. 3 seasons without a major trophy is far too long.

Some Wire fans I speak to seem satisfied just making the playoffs, going out in the first round to a Salford/Hull/Cas standard team then watching the 2019 cup final on repeat all offseason.

Re: Inglis : Mon May 03, 2021 1:13 pm  

NSW wrote:

Yep, Lam will be gone if he doesn’t win a trophy this year. 3 seasons without a major trophy is far too long.

Some Wire fans I speak to seem satisfied just making the playoffs, going out in the first round to a Salford/Hull/Cas standard team then watching the 2019 cup final on repeat all offseason.

That’s alright the Warrington board are too hence why Price is still here.

Re: Inglis : Mon May 03, 2021 2:14 pm  

Rubbish. I don't know any Warrington fans who are not fed up with not winning the Grand Final. And I can only imagine that the Board feel precisely the same, but they are realistic enough to know you can't knee jerk into changing the coach every time there is a poor run of results or even if a small number of fans on a forum don't like the style played by the team.

Re: Inglis : Mon May 03, 2021 2:58 pm  

Douglas Black wrote:

Rubbish. I don't know any Warrington fans who are not fed up with not winning the Grand Final. And I can only imagine that the Board feel precisely the same, but they are realistic enough to know you can't knee jerk into changing the coach every time there is a poor run of results or even if a small number of fans on a forum don't like the style played by the team.

We’ve had 2 coaches in 11 years. There wouldn’t be anything knee jerk in replacing the coach.

Re: Inglis : Mon May 03, 2021 3:07 pm  

And you know what? We are.

Re: Inglis : Mon May 03, 2021 3:17 pm  

Douglas Black wrote:

And you know what? We are.

Yes 2 seasons to late because he wants to go home.

Re: Inglis : Mon May 03, 2021 3:22 pm  

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Re: Inglis : Mon May 03, 2021 3:22 pm  

So, when you wanted him to go was end of 2019 season? Only two years after he arrived and having just won the Challenge Cup. He'd led the team to three finals at that point. You just don't like him, do you? Or you've got a personal beef against someone high up in the club. Or you are just a glass half empty type of person.