How long do we give Lam

[old hooker]

Lam cannot take all the blame, he is trying to instill attacking rugby into players who have played defensive rugby for years under SW.We are the only club that have a 6,7 and 9 with little attacking ability and IL is to blame for his penny pinching attitude to signings.

[DaveO]

Lam cannot take all the blame, he is trying to instill attacking rugby into players who have played defensive rugby for years under SW.We are the only club that have a 6,7 and 9 with little attacking ability and IL is to blame for his penny pinching attitude to signings.

He needs to reassess the capability of the players he has at his disposal. You aren’t going to get Wigan Athletic playing like Man City and it would be daft to try and get them to so similarly Lam needs to realise this Wigan team isn’t capable of playing the kind of attacking RL he was used to pulling off himself as a player. I suspect he’s had quite a shock finding out how far behind the NRL the current UK champions are.

[Caboosegg]

Lam cannot take all the blame, he is trying to instill attacking rugby into players who have played defensive rugby for years under SW.We are the only club that have a 6,7 and 9 with little attacking ability and IL is to blame for his penny pinching attitude to signings.

But in all the games defense has been the issue. We are leaking easy trys

[Warrior20]

I have no idea how Lam has managed to ruin the defence so much. We are all over the place. Attack is terrible as well. What’s with the very unusual team selections? At the moment he doesn’t see to know what he is doing.

[warriors01]

Hard to understand how poor our defence has gone especially in our own 25, but we are in a mess. Is this down to Sam not being there at the back organising? Why rest Flower when we have Hamilin, Greenwood, Farrell missing? But looks like IL and KR have made some bad decisions in appointing Lam and their lack of recruitment. No replacement for Bateman, and didn't solve the problem of a quality half back. Lockers and leuluai should have been retired and replaced with decent players with Super League or NRL experience. IL needs to wake up and understand that the lack of quality players in the team is one of the reasons why the crowds are falling and the performances. There is no-one presently in the team who would get you off your seat or travel away to watch. As long as we have Powell, Leuluai and Lockers our attack will not improve because they are too slow. On paper apart from St Helens away we should have had an easy start to the season, not joint bottom.The appeal now becomes even more important and the game against Huddersfield is vital that we get a win otherwise cannot see us getting out the bottom 3 all season.

[Caboosegg]

Hard to understand how poor our defence has gone especially in our own 25, but we are in a mess. Is this down to Sam not being there at the back organising? .

No its not Tomkins missed plenty of games over the last 2 years. Including when we finally beat saints last season.

[Caboosegg]

"I understand all about the pressure we're under.

"All I ask is that people be patient through this period as there are a lot of different players in this group from last year's Grand Final side and once we can get through this part in good shape, we'll be OK.

So thats from the bbs website.

You still have the same spine and the only real difference is the pack and Hardaker....

[warriors01]

That's the problem the spine is another year older. And to get the best out of Hardaker we need to create space and overlaps for him to run into like he did at Cas, which we cant do because of the lack of a creative halfback. Also we are missing Sam's and Batemans competitive spirit.

[Caboosegg]

That's the problem the spine is another year older. And to get the best out of Hardaker we need to create space and overlaps for him to run into like he did at Cas, which we cant do because of the lack of a creative halfback. Also we are missing Sam's and Batemans competitive spirit.

Then we shouldnt have gone for hardaker then.

We have used our back to make metres and create space for years. Escare can do it/bowen could do it/tomkins can do it. To then go for a fullback who cant is moronic.

[DaveO]

That's the problem the spine is another year older. And to get the best out of Hardaker we need to create space and overlaps for him to run into like he did at Cas, which we cant do because of the lack of a creative halfback. Also we are missing Sam's and Batemans competitive spirit.

Then we shouldnt have gone for hardaker then.

We have used our back to make metres and create space for years. Escare can do it/bowen could do it/tomkins can do it. To then go for a fullback who cant is moronic.

It was the cheap option and like when we signed Bowen, a signing designed to placate losing Tomkins which happened because the club had decided it wanted him to take a pay cut for no other reason than to save cash (as marquee and home grown he only cost £75k on the cap so that was pressure on cap space was no reason).