Quote ="Wildthing"I think fitness is the least of our worries right now.'"
Agreed
If fitness was our problem, we would be getting burned in the last 15 minutes of each half, especially with our lack of ball retention.
The one clear issue, is that the players didn't up their game after Smith left, which indicates that our "assistant" coach was unable to get any form of response.
Whether our players simply aren't good enough for the comp, I don't know but, maybe some of the issues that Smith has intimated about, actually don't help.
Regarding Wigan, there is no doubt that their youngsters are very well drilled and when they hit U19's, they all seem capable of playing 1st team rugby to a very high level, something that we can only dream of.
We produce 1 or 2 good players in a season and they manage 10 or 12, which takes pressure of recruitment etc.