: Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:47 am
XBrettKennyX wrote:
I am going to enjoy digging this thread out in October
We do have a problem at Wigan, but I don't think it lies with the coaching staff.
Well, we may agree on the SC but we clearly don't when it comes to what is acceptable at Wigan, I'm afraid. I agree that the coaching isn't the only thing to blame, it is part of a general malaise at the club.
Last season wasn't good enough and things seem to be going from bad to worse.
What disturbs me is not so much particular results frankly but the fact that, for example, many of our players don't seem fit enough (or would you disagree?).
Standards have continued to slip across the board, and that is simply not acceptable.
Yes the SC is dumbing down standards (not just at Wigan but of all the SL as the World Cup showed) so we can never expect our team to be as good as it was 10 years ago, let alone the great Wigan sides of the late 80s and early 90s and to some extent we have to accept there will be a number of second rate players in the team but I am sick and tired of watching players with poor attitudes, poor discipline, poor tactics and poor fitness and conditioning.
There's no excuse for that and we should be doing a lot better.
We are a long way behind Stains and Leeds (and their players aren't anything special as the World Cup showed).
That is just not good enough for me as a Wigan fan.
