morley pie eater wrote:DaveO:
"Well-equipped" must have been spell-checked! I think I meant well-run!
I'd say Warrington, Saints, possibly Cas, possibly Hull and, if you're very forgiving maybe Leeds, are the only teams that any sort of consensus would say have been run well (on and off the field). None of them stand out as clearly better than us - you could say Saints at the moment but that overlooks the shambles under KC.
My mention of salary cap was not particularly about it affecting recruitment, but that running a club under SC is different than it was previously, like when Uncle Mo was the man.
As I said, I'm not defending everything Leneghan has done - I'm sure he knows he has made mistakes and has probably learned as he's gone along. But in terms of achievement/trophies, or youth development, of innovative ideas,or whatever other category you'd judge him by or use to compare Wigan to other teams, we have more than held our own.
Now, a discussion of what we could have done better, or how who can improve in the next few years is fair enough. But I think your provocative use of "insane" and the way your postsoften come across is more akin to Private Fraser: "Doomed, we're all doomed!"
My colourful use of insane was just so I could use the quote that says if you keep doing the same thing and expect a different result you are insane. If you want to take that as me using the word literally that is up to you but I am telling you that would not be correct.
I think it is obviously that what I mean by this is that we have stuck with two coaches who were not delivering what the fans want for to long (despite in Wane's case this including trophies).
As to it being different running a club in the sc era, yes it is but in one sense it is easier. Sky play SL clubs enough to fund the entire 25 man salary capped squad.
The fact this means neither Wigan nor anyone else can go and just buy top players (people seem to forget Widnes and Leeds also broke the bank back in the day) means to get an advantage you need to maximise other aspects of the club. Such as as I said getting the best coach(es) in.
Even talk of how well Wigan does producing players is getting rather boring. We still end up signing plenty from outside the club (12 of the 19 this week were signings) and few of those we do produce (as you might expect) turn out to be as good as Sam T was when they hit the first team.
Yes all SL clubs should be doing it but it does not put bums on seats when another kid makes a debut and plays 10 minutes if lucky and is anonymous.
