Quote ="Abacus"To be honest I'm getting sick & tired of opposition coaches (who have usually just lost) moaning about Wigans tactics, to the point where for periods of the game I'm counting how long from impact with the floor to full release and pretty much invariably I'm getting a count of between 4 and 5 when Wigan tackle.
When the opposition tackle........... I also get a count of between 4 and 5. I've even done it when watching other teams on Sky and there's no real appreciable difference in count. The only thing which is apparent is that Wigan & Huddersfield have turtled the tackled player so he takes longer in recovering his feet.
There is nothing whatsoever wrong with this, and it's up to the opposition coaches to train their players to resist the attempts to turn them over during the tackle, and also to train them to turn their opposition on their backs when defending. If they are incabable of teaching their players to do this or their players are incapable of putting into practice............ they can always whine about it in the press.
So Kear, Agar et al stfu and get on with what you are supposed to be doing - next they will be moaning that we run faster, pass better, and kick better than them.
If you can't beat them, then whine about them - cries of "miss miss ! not fair, not fair" are becoming a bit boring now - it's rugby, adapt and get on with it.'"
But let's remember, inferior coaches bleating that life isn't fair have found an audience with the RFL in the past.
One classic falsehood now taken as gospel is that of the 'non-level playing field'. This was the main justification given for the introduction of the salary cap. But in fact the playing field back then was perfectly level. Wigan only did what anyone else could have done. Now, it's not level at all. Clubs who've generated a healthy income aren't allowed to spend it because it's unfair on those who haven't. And it's the RFL you can thank for that, who willingly listened to the same sort of sheep-like whingeing and calls for rule changing that is going on now.
