Which is more than we've had since. You've also got to factor in how financially unstable the club was towards the end of Johnson's reign, with the subcequent player unrest being a big factor in his departure.

This sorry lot don't realise how good they've got it.

There we are then. We ARE mediocre. Perhaps we should just accept it, and put these delusions of grandeur to bed.

Depressing isn't it? I just don't understand it. Other clubs have been capable of at least a few years of consistency, yet we are up and down like a yo yo, even during some of our supposedly good periods.

One of our most consistent periods was actually under Cullen, however we were consistently average rather than very good then poor.

Maybe that was a little bit over the top, but i don't think it was just about league positions back then as there were several other trophies on offer and wigan always ran away with the league. Aside from winning the premiership, Barrow also took us to a lancashire cup final, a john player final and another premiership final. Although we lost them all to wigan it's still pretty impressive for the amount of time he was coach. I should have phrased it like this, we were wigan's main rivals for honours under barrow.

Yes agreed, Holden was very unlucky. He never did recover after that afternoon at Swinton.

We had quite a few half back partnerships in those days but we did pull through & reached quite a few finals.
Bishop Mackey Kelly Holden Woods Peters Turner Crompton Gregory & Ellis . They were all internationals (with the exception of Peters Turner & Crompton)
Today, all we have had is Briers for the past 10 years & a few average scrum halfs.(maybe Natt Wood & Langer were the exception