Phil Clarke again! : Fri Jul 07, 2017 9:04 am  

I thought his comments on our ground situation sensationalised and unfair given the outstanding performance of our current management team and the obvious circumstances that are being weighted against us. Ok Phil, lets kick Wakefield out. How many more struggling big clubs can RL afford to lose from the top table or even the game if we carry on like this? He did qualify his comments somewhat in the end but only having basically lambasted us as a club. I used to respect this guy's words but as the years have gone by his analysis of all things has got lazier and dafter

Re: Phil Clarke again! : Fri Jul 07, 2017 9:20 am  

He'd be better of taking a job at The Daily Mail with all the sensationalist crap he spouts to provoke reaction. I've had Clarke and his 'opinions' on mute for about the last decade.

Re: Phil Clarke again! : Fri Jul 07, 2017 9:31 am  

What did he say?

Re: Phil Clarke again! : Fri Jul 07, 2017 9:34 am  

Your alright asking him, he has him on mute

Re: Phil Clarke again! : Fri Jul 07, 2017 3:34 pm  

charlie63wildcat wrote:

I thought his comments on our ground situation sensationalised and unfair given the outstanding performance of our current management team and the obvious circumstances that are being weighted against us. Ok Phil, lets kick Wakefield out. How many more struggling big clubs can RL afford to lose from the top table or even the game if we carry on like this? He did qualify his comments somewhat in the end but only having basically lambasted us as a club. I used to respect this guy's words but as the years have gone by his analysis of all things has got lazier and dafter

Totally agree.

Re: Phil Clarke again! : Fri Jul 07, 2017 4:25 pm  

The one thing he seems to forget very quickly is that if it wasn't for Dave Whelan's money and Wigan Athletic's meteoric rise through the football league to the top flight, they'd still most probably be at Central Park.

Phil Clarke is an embarrassment to Rugby League, Sky TV and himself.

Re: Phil Clarke again! : Fri Jul 07, 2017 4:48 pm  

trinfan71 wrote:

The one thing he seems to forget very quickly is that if it wasn't for Dave Whelan's money and Wigan Athletic's meteoric rise through the football league to the top flight, they'd still most probably be at Central Park.

Doubt it, they'd have definitely got a new ground and probably a better one more suited to rugby like at Saints or Warrington. Considering a new ground has been built in the Wigan borough for Leigh in that time as well, they could have easily built a new stadium on their own/with the council like other clubs have done if they'd have had to. I suspect a lot of Wigan fans would have preferred to have gone down that route in hindsight and ended up with a more traditional RL style ground.

Re: Phil Clarke again! : Fri Jul 07, 2017 4:49 pm  

As said previously, his comments re the stadium issues were at best lazy & ill informed. However his comments re our academy were totally unwarranted and misleading in my opinion!

Re: Phil Clarke again! : Fri Jul 07, 2017 4:50 pm  

Having to sit at the corner of the pitch with the Cas fans mercilessly taunting him about his brother and Solomona won't have helped his mood. O'Connor found it amusing though.

Re: Phil Clarke again! : Fri Jul 07, 2017 5:19 pm  

Lockers700 wrote:

As said previously, his comments re the stadium issues were at best lazy & ill informed. However his comments re our academy were totally unwarranted and misleading in my opinion!

Indeed - another pillock who thinks that developing young players means them winning every week; he failed to acknowledge the 8 players who've come through to the first team from the academy in the last 2 years, because it didnt suit his agenda.

His opinions, which he has for money, are worthless.