We need Williams at 6, and a 7 with a top kicking game.

Hayes too young and Dean not sure, Clifford sounded good but looks dead in the water, hey we have another big problem centres, who’s 3and4 next year !!

Looks like Steph and matautia no no no no no no!!!!!!!

You get young players coming through at Saints/Wigan/Leeds, and within a few games you can see something special there. There's a maturity in their play, an ability to take charge of the game and early on impose themselves on their SL peers.

When young players come through at Wire, before they have ever really performed in SL you get loads of hype and demands that we build the future around them. Then you get a rearguard of fans who cling to this narrative and just explain away the lack of performance. "He just needs more time.....Wigan or Saints would persevere with him.....the coach has messed him about.....the coach hates him" then inevitably they end up in the Championship with everyone saying they could have been a great but our rubbish coaching staff didn't develop them.

They wouldn't be novices if Powell grew a pair and played one of em on a regular basis instead of chopping and changing

As we are unfortunately aware, there are games when Gigot looks world class.

Even at Catalans those games were few and far between. Even more so now. A huge no from me.

There are a lot more games where he's a sulking petulant terrible influence

Or shoehorning Ratchford and Matautia into the halves instead.

Personally I wouldn't give Powell 6 games. For me he should have gone (sacked) after the Toulouse win.
But hey it's his team now & what a shambles he has put together. The Backs look all over the place (with square pegs trying to fill round holes) & most of the Forwards are on their way here, How will they react to the Powell regime?
I see another tough season ahead for the Team & the fans with an early change of Coach never the best idea but almost certain to happen based on the players we are likely to have available & Powells inability to get them fit enough or motivated enough to compete & hopefully win matches.
I will, however, be buying a season ticket & (once again) be hoping for the best. How far are we away from St Helens? 8 or 10 miles?
No, a million miles at least!!!

Isn't it becoming a bit tedious how the 'Powell Out' brigade seemingly manage to gatecrash every thread with their negative views??....

Only as tedious as how the 'Powell can do no wrong' brigade also chime in....

I agree so let's move on from it on this thread.

As far as Gigot is concerned it's a NO from me whether you think he's a 'cheap punt' or not he doesn't tick any boxes at all IMO

Not quite the thread is about Tony Gigot

This.

Pleased I have "rattled a few cages" this fine Sunday morning by hijacking this pointless thread about Tony Gigot.
Shows just how desperate we have become.
Powell OUT!, His coaching team OUT! Holmes, Minikin & Mata'utia OUT! (Congrat's, however, to Peter on recent "Spirit" award)
There I've hijacked it again!

Above all…..KissKamOut!

I think you've probably rattled your own cage

Sorry everyone, this is probably the wrong thread again, but having rattled my own cage I’m now going back into it for a while!
Don’t blame me for how Pi**ed off I feel this morning, blame S**t Helen’s, 4 Winning GF’s in a row - is enough to make any Wires fan sick, sick, sick. I’m sick of them with - their fast running, tackling, passing, catching, kicking, fitness, skill set, professionalism & their continual influencing of the referee & their pushing of the rules to the absolute limit!
Why can’t we do it for a change?
Medication now taken & fortunately beginning to take effect.
Nurse! the screens please!!

There's plenty that feel your pain and plenty of threads on what went wrong what will go wrong and how we might knock them off their perch.

Better than a cage IMO

Who are you again?

Wow, a post intended to open discussions and talk about rugby League in general has gone off the rails again

This thread should've been locked after the 1st post. Tony Gigot??? Good God!!

to be fair, it was a pretty ropey op suggestion.

Tony Gigot! no no no! I'd rather bail Chris Sandow out of jail.

We are settled that Gigot isn’t the answer, but there are merits to his game that should be admired. Even way back when he was a Catalan player he took risks and made things happen, I think Dean could be a similar style player if allowed to play his natural game.

He’s unorthodox, which some coaches won’t like, but I think fans would. Lomax is similar in the way he runs at the line first and just see what happens.

It would be great to see him put in, but realistically the risk is too high, we need a fast start and a solid defender, so likely see a new 7 come in.