This thread is even more depressing than the other one!

The scary thing here (for RL not just Wigan) is that of the Wigan team that finished 3rd last year only Barrett would get into the first 13 from 2000 onwards and none would this year.

This is not just evidence of Wigan's decline, but just how much standards in the game as a whole have slumped in recent years, particularly to my mind in the last 4 or 5 years or so.

On another thread recently someone posted the Bradford GF winning side from 2005. That team looked considerably stronger to me (particularly in the forwards with Vagana, Peacock and Fielden (when he was world class)) than the current Stains and Leeds sides.

As BK and Cruncher have pointed out on the "lose the plot" thread the sport of RL is in decline and the RFL seem to do nothing about it.

If everyone is at the top of their game...

You have good intentions but I don't think it's having the effect you desired

Just console yourself with the fact that we would end bottom of the league due to salary cap points deductions with that team - but we would murder Saints Worth it?

Some people really need to stop dwelling on the past. A thread like this pops up every week on here it seems.

i wud have to have betts in the side with hock on bench

1 Radlinski
2 Robinson
3 Renouf
4 Connolly
5 Dallas
6 Barrett
7 Lam
8 O'Connor
9 Newton
10 C Smith
11 Furner
12 betts
13 Farrell (c)
subs : hock . fecka . cassidy & leuluai to cover hooker and scrum half
if only what a team this wud be

Definately not the current one.

1 Radlinski
2 Robinson
3 Renouf
4 Inga
5 Offiah
6 Barrett
7 Edwards
8 Pongia
9 Newton
10 C Smith
11 Furner
12 Betts
13 Farrell

14 Connolly
15 Hock
16 O'Connor
17 Feka

now that would be the team of the decade

Neither Inga or Offiah played for us past 1997

Sorry, I just assumed it was an SL team