We've got barely any academy. We produce about 1 decent youngster every 2 or 3 years. That puts significant pressure on the squad, especially in a salary capped sport. It's why Saints, Leeds & Wigan have dominated for so long.

I agree we should be performing better, but not entirely convinced we have any better a squad than 5 or 6 other sides (and I've thought that since the season started).

You won’t read it in the Warrington Guardian tonight. They’ve done their ‘Wi-Fi breaking up so we’re packing up our feed’ weekly excuse for an early dart.

Coaches can't have favourites, it affects the rest if the squad.

Actually, I'll correct myself, if the coaches favourite also has the respect of the squad, it works. S O'L at Wigan worked. Our coaches favourite isn't in with the fans and at a complete guess, isn't in with the players.

As soon as you start to have faves, you start to split your squad

Least they more consistent than our team.

We are threadbare blah blah blah,did anyone watch Hull last night.

The threadbare squad doesn’t wash with me. We signed a team full of old men, some with injuries when we signed them, some suspended at the time, and one in particular with a notoriety for being a grub.

Can’t be surprised when we miss games through injury or suspension.

I genuinely think we’ve been better off than most sides with injuries/suspensions. Poor recruitment/wage structure has lead to a top heavy side and no trust in youngsters.

Powell has already done enough damage with next years squad, needs to go before more is done.

Harrison will get 3 games minimum I suspect.

Have you been to Cas? It is a fairly credible excuse.

https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sp ... rd-tigers/

https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sp ... rd-tigers/

Reading that it’s just like being stuck in the matrix

Leeds will have a field day on the back of their result tonight next week, and I bet the bookies will still have us giving them a start on the handicap.

I’m sorry, but that’s just nonsense. Poor journalism letting him off so lightly. He says himself about the repetition of the same errors, the same issues. So what. So what are you doing, what are you going to do, what are you going to change?

Beating ourselves is a cop out. Got beat by 17 men who did their job better than 17 other men. Simple as that

No actual solutions there in reality.

I can take the odd kicking, I can take a bad performance, it happens to the best of sides. We have not played above average for 2 months now and the signs are it will get worse.

Poor since week 7 - that’s not down to luck/misfortune

Feels like we need a veteran half back on a short loan. Ratch and PM at 6&7 is dog, we'll win nothing with them. Get an old dog to take charge until Drinky and Williams are back.

Disagree, play Riley Dean along with Ratchford.

Get other players to step up around them, Daryl Clark, Danny Walker, Vaughan etc to cover being short at half back.

There's literally no man management or coaching a team through some adversity here... Won't be long before Daryl probably plays the bad apples culture card again

100%. Powell's problem isn't just the form of the team but the fact he is sleepwalking through it and can't or won't make changes.

We need to give Dean a chance, he's a natural halfback and either Drinkwater or Ratchford should be able to guide him.

Failing that, move Dufty to half and Thewlis to FB.

Bullock should be starting ahead of Dudson, we need to get on the front foot early because atm as soon as we go behind we are lost.

To clarify, this was based on the fact he's binned Dean to Cas already. I'm in the realm of thinking around Powell's mistakes and there's a 2 week recall clause on Riley.

Surely we have triggered the recall option with Williams out for a month? You’d think.

For Dean, it must be so frustrating. Recalled twice from Featherstone where he was wanted, and playing well. I think we picked him once, from memory (Leigh) across the two times he was recalled. Then sent back out on loan when there’s a realistic chance of playing with Drinkwater out. If we’ve recalled him again, he’ll probably have one, maybe two games before Williams is back owing to the two week clause.

Strange decision making throughout

No more excuses, the well is dry.

The bad apples are gone
This is his team, his signings
He's had a full pre-season with his own squad
We have no relegation concerns

This SL is probably the weakest its ever been (quite a statement). All the usual suspects (Saints, Wigan, Catalans, Leeds) look inconsistent and the likes of Huddersfield are vying with us for comedy value.

The most damning aspect of last night was there was no reaction - in fact we started where we left off.

Powell has aleady stated he likes to keep a consistent 17, and by that he seems to mean he won't change unleas he has to, due to suspension or injury.

The first 7 games are a smokescreen. We're back to 2022 level, but with a bigger (but at times ineffective) pack and less excuses.

no other team would win without their starting 6 and 7, came back well, Powell has always been a cock, your squad with troops back will be there or there about for the title don't worry about that

I think i would even be tempted to try Thewlis & Dufty in the halves if Dean is unavailable & put Ratch at fullback where he has done us proud in the past.
I think Thewlis could be a playmaker in the making.

Im coming round to this view. 2 full pre-seasons, lots of signings, season and a half in and we have played well for, what, 7 games in total out of 42?