Time to reassess Adrian Lam?

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Time to reassess Adrian Lam?

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Mr Lam seems to be doing very well at Leigh, as he has when working “down under”. There doesn’t seem much love for him for his time coaching Wigan though.
Was he a failure at Wigan or is that too harsh a judgment?
If he was a failure was that just him or did Wigan not do right by him?
I don’t know if he had any say in signing players from other clubs or not?
Or is it just that a good proportion of our fans are never happy, no matter what happens?
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Euclid wrote: Sun May 28, 2023 9:53 am Mr Lam seems to be doing very well at Leigh, as he has when working “down under”. There doesn’t seem much love for him for his time coaching Wigan though.
Was he a failure at Wigan or is that too harsh a judgment?
If he was a failure was that just him or did Wigan not do right by him?
I don’t know if he had any say in signing players from other clubs or not?
Or is it just that a good proportion of our fans are never happy, no matter what happens?
I think a lot of it after his first season, where he got us to a Grand Final, was the Covid years! And the fact that he continued to (over)play our young lads, especially the forwards, when we had experience players not even selected to play!
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Too much interference from Lenners and KR, Edwards knew the score.
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Euclid wrote: Sun May 28, 2023 9:53 am Mr Lam seems to be doing very well at Leigh, as he has when working “down under”. There doesn’t seem much love for him for his time coaching Wigan though.
Was he a failure at Wigan or is that too harsh a judgment?
If he was a failure was that just him or did Wigan not do right by him?
I don’t know if he had any say in signing players from other clubs or not?
Or is it just that a good proportion of our fans are never happy, no matter what happens?
Is he doing any better than he did for Wigan yet? Didn't he get us our longest run of wins at the start of a season his first year?
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Unquestionably, there is a different feel about the club now under Peet but to be fair to Lam, coaching a team through the height of the pandemic was quite a challenge. Despite this, he was seconds away from us winning the Grand Final in 2020 and in 2021, he was effectively without French, Field and Marshall for the season, was reliant on "mercurial" talents such as Hardaker and Hastings and on top of that we played more games than anyone else (four more than champions St Helens in the regular season if I recall correctly).

I wasn't in favour of keeping him on, but he came in with a difficult brief which became way way more difficult as his tenure went on and though he is being financially backed at Leigh, he can clearly coach and motivate so we should cut him some slack and history will probably be kinder to him when his tenure is looked back on.
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DaiJones wrote: Sun May 28, 2023 12:01 pm Unquestionably, there is a different feel about the club now under Peet but to be fair to Lam, coaching a team through the height of the pandemic was quite a challenge. Despite this, he was seconds away from us winning the Grand Final in 2020 and in 2021, he was effectively without French, Field and Marshall for the season, was reliant on "mercurial" talents such as Hardaker and Hastings and on top of that we played more games than anyone else (four more than champions St Helens in the regular season if I recall correctly).

I wasn't in favour of keeping him on, but he came in with a difficult brief which became way way more difficult as his tenure went on and though he is being financially backed at Leigh, he can clearly coach and motivate so we should cut him some slack and history will probably be kinder to him when his tenure is looked back on.
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Personally I feel it was a little harsh on Lam. Covid floored all the finances (understandable) and he didn’t quite get the backing he would have wanted. Assistant coach to Australia and flying at Leigh, he’s doing pretty good…
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To be fair lammy was hampered by injuries to bevan and jai in his second season.Im sure both of them along with smith and hastings would have made a massive difference.Hes doing very well at leigh and credit were its due although they have been very very lucky with suspensions and injuries up to now.Ive got a feeling they are going to burn out as the season progresses though
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DaiJones wrote: Sun May 28, 2023 12:01 pm Unquestionably, there is a different feel about the club now under Peet but to be fair to Lam, coaching a team through the height of the pandemic was quite a challenge. Despite this, he was seconds away from us winning the Grand Final in 2020 and in 2021, he was effectively without French, Field and Marshall for the season, was reliant on "mercurial" talents such as Hardaker and Hastings and on top of that we played more games than anyone else (four more than champions St Helens in the regular season if I recall correctly).

I wasn't in favour of keeping him on, but he came in with a difficult brief which became way way more difficult as his tenure went on and though he is being financially backed at Leigh, he can clearly coach and motivate so we should cut him some slack and history will probably be kinder to him when his tenure is looked back on.
Excellent reprise from diajones
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archiekeith wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 8:35 am
DaiJones wrote: Sun May 28, 2023 12:01 pm Unquestionably, there is a different feel about the club now under Peet but to be fair to Lam, coaching a team through the height of the pandemic was quite a challenge. Despite this, he was seconds away from us winning the Grand Final in 2020 and in 2021, he was effectively without French, Field and Marshall for the season, was reliant on "mercurial" talents such as Hardaker and Hastings and on top of that we played more games than anyone else (four more than champions St Helens in the regular season if I recall correctly).

I wasn't in favour of keeping him on, but he came in with a difficult brief which became way way more difficult as his tenure went on and though he is being financially backed at Leigh, he can clearly coach and motivate so we should cut him some slack and history will probably be kinder to him when his tenure is looked back on.
Excellent reprise from diajones
And we have benefitted from the young forwards development in the longer run...whilst Lammy took the hit for flogging them. Probably he has learned from that himself?
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