: Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:34 am  

I can remember Andy Farrell saying what a good coach Andy Goodway was while the latter was in charge at Wigan.

: Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:45 am  

Adeybull wrote:

Exactly.

But he was always going to mention the coach as soon as he mentioned them not following the game plan. It's a way of trying to deflect the flack that's heading in Maccas direction. Don't forget that Morrison was in the coaching box last Friday and he all the discontent directed at McNamara.

: Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:21 pm  

Adeybull wrote:

As you can see, clearly blaming the coach for everything - rubbish game plans, rubbish coaching - like so many of the supporters are.

So the fact that, week after week, players are saying that they are not doing what they are told to do yet it still keeps happening? Why?

: Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:22 pm  

Yes Adey, WHY??

: Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:28 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

Yes Adey, WHY??

It was not aimed towards adey to answer. It was a general point.

: Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:34 pm  

mystic eddie wrote:

:roll: It was not aimed towards adey to answer. It was a general point.

Low confidence.

Opposition.
Let's not forget we may have a game plan, but the team we are up against will be doing their best to stop us putting it into practice too.

: Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:44 pm  

Wigan Bull wrote:

Low confidence.

Opposition.
Let's not forget we may have a game plan, but the team we are up against will be doing their best to stop us putting it into practice too.

Low confidence is an obvious answer now but if the team started the season low on confidence then that's a clear problem before we started.

I'd say another disrupted pre-season friendly program (thanks RFL) combined with early season injuries to senior first choice players (Solomona, Langley, Deacon, Morrison) and a generally more competitive competition has left us the wrong side of close games and a couple of thrashings leading to eroding confidence.

: Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:54 pm  

mystic eddie wrote:

:roll: It was not aimed towards adey to answer. It was a general point.

Gosh, super. Thank you for sharing that.

It was the combination of you replying to Adey, with a quote of what he had written, plus the words you used in your question, clinched by the"?" at the end, which misled me into believing you were using a popular device called a "question", directed at the person you addressed it to.

I now see how wrong I was. I apologise for having forced you to, entirely understandably, roll your eyes and (though you do not say so) doubtless to 'Tut' loudly.

Now is too soon, when the pain of misunderstanding is clearly so raw, but I can only hope and pray that, one day, you can find it in your heart to forgive my having jumped to this obviously unreachable conclusion.

[Bullseye]

: Wed Apr 22, 2009 1:04 pm  

Well this poll didn't really have the option I would go for.

I no longer feel McNamara is up to the job and we need a change at head coach. We should look for a replacement and he should be appointed asap. That replacement should be carefully selected though, if getting the right bloke means waiting till the end of this season then so be it. This season is pretty much over as far as us having any chance of being in the mix for trophies is concerned (though we never really were at the races IMO).

However, we shouldn't be waiting too long Next season is crucial, we must turn the corner and have optimism return to the club before then or dwindling attendances and lower season ticket sales will mean the clubs immediate future would be in jeopardy.

It's all very well to cite a lack of money as the reason we can't change the coach but I don't think any of us have any real hard information on that front. What I do know is if the current decline continues then we certainly will not have any money for anything at all before long, unless we've reached the point of no return already. If that's the case then I really don't fancy watching this car crash unfold any further.

: Wed Apr 22, 2009 1:13 pm  

How come there's no option covering the possibility that he's doing a fantastic job and getting all your players performing way above their abilities?