Wigan Warriors • Our recent (lack of) success vs Player turnover
Just reflecting on saints win last night and the differences in their squad vs ours.
We will have just 4 survivors from our 2018 Grand Final win at the start of next season (1 of those left and came back - bateman) plus Farrell, Powell and Leuleui. Saints on the other hand still have 9 players from the team that narrowly lost the semi to wire in the same year.
Compare our 2013 grand final win with the team that won in 2018 - and again only 4 survivors....a huge reason why we underachieved for the team we had built 2010 onwards, which should really have been a group which won 6/7 out of 10 grand finals like Leeds did..instead we only returned 4
We are generally turning over a full team every 4 years or so....meaning every two years is half a different team.
If we want to compete again we need to rebuild this squad and reduce the rate which we hemorrhage players
We will have just 4 survivors from our 2018 Grand Final win at the start of next season (1 of those left and came back - bateman) plus Farrell, Powell and Leuleui. Saints on the other hand still have 9 players from the team that narrowly lost the semi to wire in the same year.
Compare our 2013 grand final win with the team that won in 2018 - and again only 4 survivors....a huge reason why we underachieved for the team we had built 2010 onwards, which should really have been a group which won 6/7 out of 10 grand finals like Leeds did..instead we only returned 4
We are generally turning over a full team every 4 years or so....meaning every two years is half a different team.
If we want to compete again we need to rebuild this squad and reduce the rate which we hemorrhage players
Statistics: Posted by afootingmiracle21-12 — Sun Oct 10, 2021 1:37 pm — Replies 0 — Views 283