Big lads mate wrote:Christ all mighty, you’d all be swinging from the nearest lamppost if you’d watch Wakefield like me over the last 50 years with that attitude, man up and enjoy the ride
Dear Big Lads Mate, Can you please visit the Wire forum more often.
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Wires71 wrote:It would be nice to be able to win against Wigan or Saints again.
Indeed it would, but if that along with scraping a playoff berth remains our season highlight/goal then we're no better than, say, 2004/5 alsorans.
I agree wholeheartedly with all the reasons you gave for pessimism, and, I also would dearly love to be wrong. I will watch casually, but I think I'm rapidly falling out of love with RL overall and since I only really care about Warrington then also falling out of love with them. I don't even enjoy the match day 'experience' anymore, it's stale and sanitised and there's more atmosphere on the moon.
I mean put it this way, even if we win our first 8 or 9 games this year, who would still be optimistic after last year?
As ever, I’m looking forward to the new season, do I expect to win anything? Not really, I’d quite like to be entertained and generally between seeing friends and watching RL I always am - one generally compensates the other!
Am I bothered we should be better? Absolutely, but I think I’ve outgrown that expectation that we need to be great. I love RL, be it youth rugby or super league. I hope IMG can create a story behind the season, I’ll be right behind it - as I am every year.
Joined: Jun 25 2006 Posts: 14133 Location: Forum21
Big lads mate wrote:Christ all mighty, you’d all be swinging from the nearest lamppost if you’d watch Wakefield like me over the last 50 years with that attitude, man up and enjoy the ride
You do you, I'll do me. I reckon you will be swinging before me with Powell at he helm.
Joined: Jun 25 2006 Posts: 14133 Location: Forum21
People are misinterpreting "zero hope for the season" as pessimism. Whilst not optimistic i grant you, I would say closer to realism. We didnt win the GF when we had a good team, now we have a pretty poor team with non functioning halfbacks and pack that is 2 quality forwards light.
Anyway for the happy optimists ill give you 15 to 1 odds on £100 bet on Warrington GF win. Put your money where your mouth is.
Joined: Feb 23 2009 Posts: 2407 Location: Springfield
Wires71 wrote:I'm similar, I enjoyed the game much more around the turn of the century early noughties.
I'm only interested in Warrington and, to be honest, that interest is waning. Forever promising, forever letting us down. It's basically nostalgia that keeps me engaged at arms length. Twenty years ago I was a home and away man, now I can barely endure 80 minutes in the stadium.
I have zero hopes for this season. Our roster is not good enough, our winning mentality is absent, Burgess is inexperienced, our young prospects are not as good as our top rivals, and I don't rate Chambers in the DoR role, we have a clown as CEO and we have owners meddling in recruitment and retention. I cannot see any recipe for success and I doubt anyone involved with the club seriously believes we can win a GF in 2024. I look forward to this thread being pulled out late October to show how wrong as I was.
Still, good news about the chocolate oranges!
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I can assure you that Wakey have had far worse, to be honest DP is the best signing we’ve had for a long time, only time will tell 
