Re: Mike Cooper podcast : Sun Dec 01, 2024 9:55 pm  

Smiffy27 wrote:

Totally with you that Wigan are the benchmark. We will never know what Shaun Wane would have done ... not even sure he wanted the job.

Course he didn't! He gets to contest two games a year as England coach then swan around like the king of Wigan sitting next to Peet at the pie dome!

Re: Mike Cooper podcast : Mon Dec 02, 2024 9:33 am  

Shaun Wane was never the solution on his own. That's why he called the Warrington job 'a poisoned chalice'... He isn't the reason behind the Wigan culture, he's a symptom of it and also an important cog in it. There are a plethora of reasons that make up the winning culture at Wigan (including the stream of local talent) and if we want to emulate that here it has to start from the top down. Hopefully we are starting to see that high salaries, big paydays for past-it players and catty social media is not a recipe for success on the field.

The appointment of Burgess will no doubt help on the field, and the current crop of local young talent will hopefully be the shoots of a new ethos within the club. It's important that we maintain that mindset going forward of having players that will put their body on the line for the club when the chips are down, rather than a coffee-shop culture where everything is peachy and the players just plod on regardless, thinking about their next latte on Monday morning at training.

The danger is when Burgess leaves and a new coach comes in, and we trust them with yet another big culture change.

Re: Mike Cooper podcast : Mon Dec 02, 2024 9:49 am  

easyWire wrote:

Shaun Wane was never the solution on his own. That's why he called the Warrington job 'a poisoned chalice'... He isn't the reason behind the Wigan culture, he's a symptom of it and also an important cog in it. There are a plethora of reasons that make up the winning culture at Wigan (including the stream of local talent) and if we want to emulate that here it has to start from the top down. Hopefully we are starting to see that high salaries, big paydays for past-it players and catty social media is not a recipe for success on the field.

The appointment of Burgess will no doubt help on the field, and the current crop of local young talent will hopefully be the shoots of a new ethos within the club. It's important that we maintain that mindset going forward of having players that will put their body on the line for the club when the chips are down, rather than a coffee-shop culture where everything is peachy and the players just plod on regardless, thinking about their next latte on Monday morning at training.

The danger is when Burgess leaves and a new coach comes in, and we trust them with yet another big culture change.

I think that's where the appointment of chambers comes into its own, it will be his responsibility to ensure the work we are doing now at all levels are the same throughout so the previous three years of work is still relevant at first team level, the appointment of a new head coach will be based on how we work and operate as a club not on their individual achievements previously. As mentioned above Wigan are the benchmark without doubt but they appointed a relative unknown head coach in Peet and he's worked wonders within keeping that club winning mentality because all the coaching staff at all levels work to the same standards and that most probably comes from Radlinski ensuring the right people are in the right place

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Re: Mike Cooper podcast : Mon Dec 02, 2024 9:49 am  

easyWire wrote:

Shaun Wane was never the solution on his own. That's why he called the Warrington job 'a poisoned chalice'... He isn't the reason behind the Wigan culture, he's a symptom of it and also an important cog in it. There are a plethora of reasons that make up the winning culture at Wigan (including the stream of local talent) and if we want to emulate that here it has to start from the top down. Hopefully we are starting to see that high salaries, big paydays for past-it players and catty social media is not a recipe for success on the field.

The appointment of Burgess will no doubt help on the field, and the current crop of local young talent will hopefully be the shoots of a new ethos within the club. It's important that we maintain that mindset going forward of having players that will put their body on the line for the club when the chips are down, rather than a coffee-shop culture where everything is peachy and the players just plod on regardless, thinking about their next latte on Monday morning at training.

The danger is when Burgess leaves and a new coach comes in, and we trust them with yet another big culture change.

Decent post and good points although I'm not sure that any blame can be laid at coffee.

I'm hoping that when Burgess eventually does leave, we won't be heading for a "big culture change". You see it in now Association Football and at the successful RL clubs, the system is set as you say yourself "from the top down" and the coach comes in playing with the cards that are being dealt to him largely by the club's hierarchy.

Rollercoaster management is bad for business, it's usually expensive and doesn't guarantee success, well certainly not the long term legacy sustainable type, which is what we need to aim for as it's vital in a financially constrained sport such as ours.