sergeant pepper wrote:At the end of the day there is the simple fact that we are now weaker in a number of key positions compared to last season and the season before that.

The reasons for this + the rights and wrongs regarding it have been discussed to death but simply put if you continue to lose top draw players and replace them with less talented individuals then your going to experience a dip.

We are now weaker @ Centre, Scrum Half, 2nd row and arguably, with the loss of Lima, Prop as well.

Add on top of the above we moved backwards at hooker when Piggy left and Tomkins is probably in his last season means there has and continues to be a systematic decline in the standard of players at WRLFC.

I don't claim to know how to fix it or also claim to be any more astute than IL but i do know that the above decline is glaring obvious and that's it's worrying/upsetting a lot of Wigan fans.

sergeant pepper wrote:At the end of the day there is the simple fact that we are now weaker in a number of key positions compared to last season and the season before that.



We are now weaker @ Centre, Scrum Half, 2nd row and arguably, with the loss of Lima, Prop as well..

sybutwhy? wrote:With Leuluai out for two months and Finch hobbling his way through the playoffs we are in a better scrum half position right now! Although when they clicked they really did click.

jonh wrote:We in my opinion really need to recruit some quality. We need to bring in the right type of player and I expect we will only find them in the NRL.

Players will become available but not yet, so I think we will need to be patient and hope for a mid season addition at best.

jonh wrote:We in my opinion really need to recruit some quality. We need to bring in the right type of player and I expect we will only find them in the NRL.

Players will become available but not yet, so I think we will need to be patient and hope for a mid season addition at best.

jonh wrote:If IFL said he would no longer sign players from the NRL then we have the wrong man in charge of our club. Thankfully I doubt he ever said that and thus would no longer worry should the right player become available that we would not try to sign him because he plays in the best Rugby Comp in the world.