John Davidson has reported that Musgrove won’t be here next season. Hopefully, we can release him early and get a replacement in sooner than later. 
Recruitment is clearly the big issue - both Leigh and Wakefield have done miles better than us. It’s surprising Burgess and Chambers have got this badly wrong. It was reported in Powell’s time were in for Ese’Ese but Burgess chose his mate Musgrove because he knew him at Rabbitoes. Russell too…who did the scouting there.
This is what keeps Wigan at the top - they don’t sign many duffers.

At 12-0 we got into decent position and Dufty drops it from Sneyd. We lose the Tai challenge which is 50:50 really. Vaughan offloads 15 yards out and it’s intercepted. Thewlis is dragged into touch and we have the Russell interception pulled back for the late Tai tackle. That is all at 12-0. We just turned it over softly, didn’t try and build pressure but tried to solve it on our own. 

I don't see it as two fingers to the fans. I think the rest that teams get when they are out of the cup makes a difference with less injuries etc.HKR/Leigh/Catalan & Wire didn't play that well at the weekend. Mind, totally agree with you that we are highly unlikely to appear at the grand final ... as we are quite simply not good enough.

What a disgraceful performance. All well and good showing up for the cup games and games against the big sides but getting pumped by 40 points against the likes of Wakefield and Hull FC is abhorrent. 

The recruitment has been an absolute disaster and I'm still yet to hear who has been responsible for that. We best win at Wembley otherwise our season will be over in June. To the people saying we will make the top 6, even if we do, by some miracle sneak in, what are we doing in the play offs? We're 10 points behind HKR. Burgess has serious question marks for me. His blind faith in players like Jordy Crowther need serious questioning, he's absolute dross. Sam Powell 0 metres again for the second time this season. We may as well be playing with 12 men.


Next week could be anything.

Regarding losing to Wakefield - the only surprise is that anyone is still surprised anymore. If it was a one-off, you could perhaps find mitigation. However, those of us who have watched Wire for a long time know the score only too well. You can see performances like this coming from a mile off, sadly. The red flags are so large you could see them from space. Whenever we are involved in big games, we just seem to have no resilience either side of them, so reaching a cup final usually means having to suffer three or four dismal league defeats before and/or afterwards. It is a depressing cycle that just keeps on recurring, throughout the years, regardless of personnel.

Fair enough. Personally I'm not buying the "rest" argument. We haven't beaten Wakefield away since 2019. Its attitude and commitment to the league. It stinks. We conceded 40 points against Wakefield. Just typing that makes me angry.