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I well remember your 'assumption' which you put into print ahead of the 2009 Rugby league Challenge cup final. The 'assumption' that Huddersfield would undoubtedly win! I'm so sorry that we spoiled your party!

February 2010. It's flown by!

You were saying?

For god's sake Warrington sort yourselves out or saints will murder us.

I think the deal for Sneyd will be the first of many. It helps Salford, it helps us and Sneyd no longer has the worries over his wages. He won't wave a magic wand and make us unbeatable while our forwards are still getting bullied though.

As a wire fan I wish people would forget that pesky final!

There's a rumour that we are interested in Sneeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyddddddddddddddd.

We might be struggling but I think we'll win this comfortably by 30.

I congratulate wakey on a good win. That doesn't gloss over my concerns regarding Warrington though. It seems that we are far from the 'big club ' we perceive ourselves to be. If we were to play cas or Salford who are both struggling a bit, next week then I honestly think they would beat us. But well done Wakefield who were the better team on the day by a country mile.

That wasn't a poor performance though was it. It was a deliberately staged performance to get rid of him, it was clear to see on the day for those who were there!

You are correct, but the fact is that without this backing those clubs wouldn't be where they are now. So clubs who don't have that amount of backing, or in some cases don't have any at all are at a huge disadvantage compared to them. I'm only sorry for Salford that Koukash was not a patient man really and wanted success virtually straight away. It takes years to build success and it is cyclical in sport, unless you are careful it can disappear as quickly as it appears! If the Doc had been still around Salford might have been starting to emerge as a bit of a force in the game now with that level of backing.

I well remember his last game in charge of wire. A 42-6 defeat away at bottom of the table wakey who were heading for relegation. I could never prove this, but as I drove back over the Pennines in my car that day I was pretty certain that the Warrington players had 'done a job' on Powell and put the final nail in his coffin as wire head coach. I thought correctly.

I think they will do okay and finish around the mid table point. With the spirit they appear to have, barring a ruck of long term injuries no way will they be relegated. That fate appears set to fall on Salford, hudds or cas, or maybe even us if we don't start shaping ourselves!

It could well be, but I believe the problems start higher up the pecking order than him.

He was brought in by the board to restructure everything, and was then ridiculed by some fans when it didn't work out. But it didn't work because the players didn't buy into it. Not long term anyway. Having said that, he does seem to do better at clubs where expectation isn't as high. He's done a fine job at cas and is doing well at wakey but he didn't do that great at Leeds if I remember correctly and we've said all we need to say about his time at Warrington. Player power plays it's part but I wonder if he also feels a pressure at the so called bigger clubs ( I don't regard the wire as a big club anymore, they fail on the big stage to many times!) that h finds difficult to handle?