Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill



Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill



Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Bill Gates



Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Confucius



If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill



The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Bobby Knight



If that doesn't motivate you try 8 pints of Stella

Only managed to see the second half but I was very dissapointed with what I saw. Scott taylor had a good game but as usual there where far to many bad decisions, silly penalties and a lot of sloppy defending, some of the tries we conceded were embarassing.



I'd like to think it was a case of players keeping a bit in the bank for next week but I don't think that was the case at all, Ever since the warrington game heads have dropped and bar a few easy wins against the likes of widnes and london we have looked way off the mark.

I hope that Winston feller can play fullback, standoff or centre next season, because we are going to need him.

Going into next week's game in the form we are in I am very concerned. There cannot be an agenda to just not try. We haven't strung a decent run of sets together, let alone matches. When we went on that consecutive run of wins, they were playing well, and I always felt we had a good chance of winning, but right now I am worried.

Just the annual Shaun Wane's Wigan end of season collapse. World Beaters in May. Bag o' e come the business end. That said we'll probably scraup a win next week which will mask our inadequacies against the big boys. A win next week will give Lenegan just enough slack to continue his policy of asset stripping Wigan's golden generation for intangible gains such as 'youth development'. I don't want a successful under 15's. I want a decade at the top like Leeds have had under a regime with balls to hold onto a winning squad.

This season is following exactly the same pattern as last year. We keep waiting for the form to turn round but it didn't last year and is showing no signs of it this year either.

I admire your cynicism. It's a brave man who will condemn a win next week as one that would "mask our inadequacies".



Even braver to suggest that will allow IL to pursue an agenda.

It was just as long a trip for us. Yet we beat Catalan comfortably by a 20 point margin at their place a couple of weeks ago.

We've been very poor since the Magic weekend.

I certainly think that because of the young age of the team, we are suffering from a level of fatigue that is not being affected on older players.

The players have shown us what they are capable of earlier in the season, I think that once this group mature they will be a force to be reckoned with for many years to come.

Injuries have also played a part in the dip in form, the replacements coming in are even younger and not quite ready for the first grade: they have shown glimpses of their quality and will improve with time.

Rather than doom and gloom, I am really looking forward to future seasons as I think we have a promising bunch of talented young players that will serve the club well.

How did you do for your other long trip ... bottom of the table London Broncos ?

Didn't Wire get banged by 60 against London the week before the Cup Final last year? Don't worry.

last year was down to Wane flogging the players to death trying to win every single game.



this year is somewhat different.

We were winning at will early season, then dipped in form. Plenty thought it was injuries combined with Wanes policy of resting players.

We had a massive upturn in form to hammer the Broncos in the semi-final, after smashing Widnes out of sight when plenty predicted a close game based on our form, then it was back to playing rubbish.



I have no doubt whatsoever that we will win at Wembley, the question is why ?



I wish i knew the answer.

But i am torn between Wanes brilliant tactics to get us a favourable final league position to give us an easier route to old trafford, with fresh players , and the theory that Wanes lost the plot and the changing rooms and the players are picking and choosing when to turn up.