Is it the End of an Era? : Sat Oct 05, 2013 9:46 pm  

1 Ratchford - OK
2 Joel - OK
3 Bridge - Never good enough
4 Atkins - Bath?
5 Riley - adequate
6 Lee - 1 more year?
7 Myler - OK
8 Morley - Gone
9 Higham/Monas OK but for how long?
10 Carvell - Gone
11 Trent - OK
12 Ben - OK
13 Harrison - OK
14 Hodgey - Gone
15 Cooper - Gone
16 Higham/Monas see above
17 Hill - OK
18 Wood - 1 more year
etc

Cheque Book out - Kirmond etc etc - Views Gentlemen.

Lymm Restauranteurs v upset - very quiet in the village when boom time expected.

Re: Is it the End of an Era? : Sat Oct 05, 2013 10:12 pm  

Que?

Ratchford
Joel
Bridge
Atkins
Riley
Briers
Myler
Hill
Higham
Wood
Waterhouse
Westwood
Grix

Harrison
Asotasi
Monaghan
Currie

Starting 17 we're fine, it's beyond that that we now become weaker. Injuries to backs and we have Evans, O'Brien, and Penny to come in. Injuries to front row we have Riley, Bridge, Laithwaite and I can't think of more, unless we sign that England guy from the lower league. BJB is apparently coming in, if so that helps a little but we're definitely light on depth next year.

Re: Is it the End of an Era? : Sat Oct 05, 2013 10:25 pm  

Personally i'd like 2 new centres and move atkins onto the wing

Re: Is it the End of an Era? : Sat Oct 05, 2013 11:03 pm  

Riley isn't good enough, that's a simple fact

Re: Is it the End of an Era? : Sat Oct 05, 2013 11:08 pm  

Can't we wallow in self-pity for a bit longer before we start to pull the 2014 squad to pieces?

Re: Is it the End of an Era? : Sat Oct 05, 2013 11:19 pm  

chrissyg1996(2) wrote:

Riley isn't good enough, that's a simple fact

Come off it. He saved 3 tries tonight in defence when Atkins had left him in a two on one situation. He scores more than enough tries during a season. His defence is suspect yes, but he's been with us 8 years, he must be doing something right.

Re: Is it the End of an Era? : Sat Oct 05, 2013 11:33 pm  

WireWireWire wrote:

Come off it. He saved 3 tries tonight in defence when Atkins had left him in a two on one situation. He scores more than enough tries during a season. His defence is suspect yes, but he's been with us 8 years, he must be doing something right.

+1

Re: Is it the End of an Era? : Sun Oct 06, 2013 12:11 am  

Yes its the end of Tony Smith's "first team" that he won those trophies from 2009 to 2012 with, clubs have to reassemble teams like Ferguson did at United, he probably had three distinct teams in different eras.

We might drop down in standard in the next year or two (the big drop will be when Briers leaves) but we knew this before anyway. Obviously the night after a Grand Final loss we will look through it with a more negative lens whereas had we won tonight the posts would have been listing the names of various Academy players saying this would be the spine of our team for the next five years, the future's bright the future's Wire.

I reckon we will be around 4th / 5th next year but still a threat in the playoffs and Grand Final. That was my prediction last year for Wigan with the end of an era with Finch, Leuluai, Carmont and Lima all leaving and unfortunately it turned out to be truer than I hoped.

Re: Is it the End of an Era? : Sun Oct 06, 2013 1:03 am  

Briers had your pants down when you gave him a new contract.

Totally anonymous when Wigan started to wake up.

Re: Is it the End of an Era? : Sun Oct 06, 2013 6:58 am  

Diablo1967 wrote:

Briers had your pants down when you gave him a new contract.

Totally anonymous when Wigan started to wake up.

And came up with the key plays when we were on top. I didn't see Blake Green much when Wigan were defending; maybe they should get rid of him.