Another way of looking at it could be that if Wigan's backroom staf are so good why are they not in a better position. Maybe too uch importance is attached to them.

A more worrying issue for me is OSV. We have had a poor season by anyone's standards and the crowds have drifted away. With the impending temporary move away from Odsal, while the redevelopment goes on, how many more people will take the opportunity to have a break from watching the Bulls.

Not me, however much I hate VP.

Have faith we'll go on a decent run from now on. A couple of wins and all will be forgotten.

In general I think the club is heading in the right direction, but there are some underlying shortfalls that need rectifying ASAP if the club intends to re-establish itself as a contender.

1. Defense, defense, defense. Ours is inconsistent at best, and you can't win games when you concede so many points.

2. Substitutions. McNamara appears to have little or no awareness of when to substitute players and how best to use his subs to have maximum impact. He brings off players when they're looking like they're just getting warmed up and brings players on with less than 10 minutes to play not giving them the chance to get warmed up!


By the looks of things the junior set up seems to be doing ok and we're producing some decent talent, but there's no point in producing the players if they don't get bled into the first team properly and are given at least a 20 minute spell to get involved.

Perhaps they have a crap head coach.

in particular we sam to rely over much on lynch and newton and keep them both on pitch for much longer stints than are necessary, blunting there effectiveness to a degree. Also concerned that we're relying on leaving menzies on pitch for too big a portion off most games. granted he's one of few game breakers we have but we can't keep asking him to play virtually the whole 80 every week at this stage in his career.

Why not, after 15 years in the NRL, he still looks like one of the fittest player in SL. He was good for Manly as an impact player though, if he is retained next season, once we have Hall, he could be used as impact when Burgess comes off or something like that.