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Joe Maplin

They only won the Challenge Cup Final in the last thee minutes of the game thanks to a bit of inspiration by Leuluei and Smith and as for being second in the league, that is due to most of the other clubs not having the same bigger squads to cover for injuries and suspensions like Wigan have and not in the same position to loan out the many players to other clubs as what Wigan do. A situation which has led to two of the better young players going to Warrington and Leeds as they cannot get regular first team selection at the age they should be getting into a first team on a regular basis like Newman and Welsby have and Nicholson has at Warrington.

The only difference from last season, is that Lam did not have the signings of Cush, Ellis and Mago from down under, Field who was out injured for the season, French missing for part of the season, a good young Assistant Coach in Lee Briers and a situation where because of the lack of better prop forwards, he had to play Clubb who wanted to retire.

Recent results in games against against injury and suspension hit Hull FC, Hull KR, Wakefield Trinity compared to results against consistent St Helens and improving Leeds Rhinos under their new Australian Head Coach prove my case!

As far as I am concerned, the inconsistent play and results will not alter unless a Head Coach is recruited from down under!