Team of the noughties

[Big ref wit' glasses]

Happy new year. It's a new decade hopefully better than the last.

Here's my best team of the noughties, what do other people think

1 Radlinski
2 Carney
3 Renouf
4 Richards
5 Dallas
6 Barrett
7 Lam
8 Smith
9 Newton
10 Fletcher
11 Furner
12 O' Loughlin
13 Farrell

Not a bad 13 but I think it shows a couple of weaknesses, I struggled to find a second centre alongside Renouf, Richards is a winger. Also we have been weak at prop and I've put Bryan Fletcher in.

Another weakness is that only 5 of the team are British. Hock should have been in but he has blotted his copybook and the likes of Stephen Wild, Luke Robinson and Paul Johnson all had potential but never fulfilled it in a Wigan shirt.

Hopefully in the next decade more youngsters will come through and fulfill their potential at Wigan

[GeoffN]

Happy new year. It's a new decade hopefully better than the last.

Here's my best team of the noughties, what do other people think

1 Radlinski
2 Carney
3 Renouf
4 Richards
5 Dallas
6 Barrett
7 Lam
8 Smith
9 Newton
10 Fletcher
11 Furner
12 O' Loughlin
13 Farrell

Not a bad 13 but I think it shows a couple of weaknesses, I struggled to find a second centre alongside Renouf, Richards is a winger. Also we have been weak at prop and I've put Bryan Fletcher in.

Another weakness is that only 5 of the team are British. Hock should have been in but he has blotted his copybook and the likes of Stephen Wild, Luke Robinson and Paul Johnson all had potential but never fulfilled it in a Wigan shirt.

Hopefully in the next decade more youngsters will come through and fulfill their potential at Wigan

Connolly was still playing for us then, so he gets the other centre spot for me, and Hock gets in purely as a player, ignoring his off-field issues.

I pretty much agree with Phil Wilkinson's selection in the WEP:

http://www.wigantoday.net/warriors/Warr ... 5946332.jp

[thomo]

this just shows my other point about how weak we are and have been in the forwards

Fletcher should never be the first choice prop over the last ten years - come on

[Big ref wit' glasses]

TIt was really hard to find a second prop for my team of the noughties. In the last 10 years craig smith is by far and away the best prop we've had. The night we beat Leeds in the final eliminator with brian carney going the full length craig smith was awsome.

After him no one stands out in the early part of the decade we had o' Connor and cowie, both were great players in the 90s but did little in the 00s. Quintin Pongia showed some good touches but didn't play for us long enough. Jerry Seuseu tried hard but wasn't big enough and past his best when he played for us.

Since then we've had Fielden a really big disapointment he has never approached the level of performance that he produced for the bulls. We've had Feka who has never really been fit and Prescott and Hargreaves who came through as decent youngsters but like so many in recent years failed to move on to the next level.

The reason I chose Bryan fletcher, I put him just in front of Mick cassidy was his defensive efforts and his leadership when lockers was a very young captain. I remember a game at Hull when he was awsome.

[ancientnloyal]

For this website doing my all-time team I struggled naming the best props... I think I ended up with Skerrett and Feka - I dont know why Feka but hey!

It seems although we have had success in the 80s/90s the props are either a) average in a good team or b) overshadowed by other players in different positions.

Props for the noughties I'd go with Smith and o'connorr

[mike binder]

o conner at prop what did he ever do wrong???

[pedro]

Rads
Dallas
Connolly
Renouf
Robinson
Barrett
Lam
O Connor
Newton
Smith
Furner
Fletcher
Farrell