: Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:07 pm  

jjb10 wrote:

I am beginning to hate this season, what else could go wrong? Now Hock, Crap season, O' Carroll injury, no one wanting to come to the club, IL all mouth no action, uncertainty re Noble.

Where do we go from here as a club???

Do we bring back Mossop, to help bolster the squad? Do we promote more youngsters do we go out and buy another back rower? Or is it just Hansen, Lockers, Bailey & Tomkins for the rest of the year.

It sure is turning out a season to forget, The CC semi final is all that the club has to look forward to. But you get the impression now that not many are.

I keep thinking of the post made pre season by ABP (i think), about how forward he was looking to the new season, and the reasons why. Can some one dig it out and see if there is anything left on there that is still a positive??

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:08 pm  

Cruncher wrote:

Don't give up the day job.

work nights

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:13 pm  

jjb10 wrote:

I am beginning to hate this season, what else could go wrong? Now Hock, Crap season, O' Carroll injury, no one wanting to come to the club, IL all mouth no action, uncertainty re Noble.

Where do we go from here as a club???

Do we bring back Mossop, to help bolster the squad? Do we promote more youngsters do we go out and buy another back rower? Or is it just Hansen, Lockers, Bailey & Tomkins for the rest of the year.

1) Having young excellent winger being the top try scorer in SL after only a few games.
2) The introduction of a young Sam Tomkins, a promising talent with a bright future.
3) The signing of Martin Gleeson, the perfect centre to play for us who is also a Wiganer!
4) Going to Murrayfield to see Wigan smash saints!
5) Having an excellent reserve young team looking to be unbeaten all season!

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:14 pm  

I always stuck up for the lad saying he had at least one brain cell, well he's made me look a fool.

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:17 pm  

Last Son of Wigan wrote:

1) Having young excellent winger being the top try scorer in SL after only a few games.
2) The introduction of a young Sam Tomkins, a promising talent with a bright future.
3) The signing of Martin Gleeson, the perfect centre to play for us who is also a Wiganer!
4) Going to Murrayfield to see Wigan smash saints!
5) Having an excellent reserve young team looking to be unbeaten all season!

Granted something to look forward to in the long term, every cloud and all. As for this season should we just write the league off now and throw everything into the CC against Warrington, because the club and the town needs a lift and as fans we deserve better than these idiots are giving us at the moment.

[DaveO]

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:19 pm  

Barge wrote:

Which is ridiculous.

It should be regular testing for all players no matter how difficult it may be, anything to rid the game of players who cannot appreciate the priveliged position that they hold.

Some friends of ours have children involved in junior athletics the drug testing there is second home for ex-Gestapo Nazi's if the tales are true. They are so strict at this very junior level it is untrue.

They are tested after a meet and if they can't give a sample, which is often the case after competition due to fluid loss they are not allowed to leave until they do and never let out of sight of the tester, i.e. they have to be watched while they provide the sample. This can be hours and hours later. Why they put their kids through this is something I wonder at times because it is not at all a pleasant experience.

To test all RL players regularly probably isn't practical for similar reasons. The time and effort taken would be huge and cost a fortune. So they rely on random tests as deterrent. The fact Hock has got caught hopefully will increase the deterrent effect.

I am pretty sure they are tested after the game and not being able to give a sample would also be a problem. They could be stuck there all weekend with 34 players to test!

Dave

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:20 pm  

As a Wakefield fan I have often looked on enviously at the back row options that Wigan possess. gareth Hock was a personal favourite because of the way he played the game with that mixture of sublime skills, brutal physicality and a touch of mongrel, a mixture all too rare in today's sanitised game

What an absolute shame, let's hope he learns from this after his inevitable ban may be he can come back and use his talents properly.

If Wigan choose to cancel his contract maybe it will free up enough space on the salary cap to make a bid for Richard Myler.

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:20 pm  

Last Son of Wigan wrote:

1) Having young excellent winger being the top try scorer in SL after only a few games.
2) The introduction of a young Sam Tomkins, a promising talent with a bright future.
3) The signing of Martin Gleeson, the perfect centre to play for us who is also a Wiganer!
4) Going to Murrayfield to see Wigan smash saints!
5) Having an excellent reserve young team looking to be unbeaten all season!

6) 80 Mins away from Wembley

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:21 pm  

jjb10 wrote:

Granted something to look forward to in the long term, every cloud and all. As for this season should we just write the league off now and throw everything into the CC against Warrington, because the club and the town needs a lift and as fans we deserve better than these idiots are giving us at the moment.

still only need 3 quality appointments.

New coach
New 7
New prop.

With the loss of Hock (Likely)

With the departing
Hock
Smith
Bailey
Phelps
Coley

we might have the funds for even more good signings.

If the right signings are made, everyone would feel 100% better.

Just need to give the club time.

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:21 pm  

Noble's Barmy Army wrote:

6) 80 Mins away from Wembley