Wow, Amor is certainly not holding back here: https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/as-bad-a ... 022-70015/

Wow, Amor is certainly not holding back here: https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/as-bad-a ... 022-70015/

I think we all guessed how bad it was.

Sounds exactly like what most of us suspected - A gang of underachievers, hacked off because a new coach comes in and tells them that their comfort zone is no longer going to be as comfortable as they are used to, and so they basically downed tools.

Good on Powell (& the club for backing him) for being ruthless and sorting out what was obviously a significant number of bad apples.

I think we can all guess the main culprits, I just wonder if Wigan will be as willing to allow them to rule the roost, as they obviously enjoyed doing with us?

Well I'm glad Amor was in the trenches with us then - what a disgraceful attitude. Sorry, can't stand the man. Pay my wages please but don't expect me to dig in whilst the going is this tough.

It's all a bit strange this. We heard his thoughts last year and not sure why it's being brought up again.
Sad old boy. Well I suppose ... the current transformation of our fortunes is pretty newsworthy.

When we signed Amor, Powell said: "He will add depth and experience to our squad and I also expect key leadership skills to come from his time at St Helens. I’m looking for us to really grow over the second half of the season and Kyle has a perfect opportunity to support us in doing that.”

It appears that rather than providing leadership and support, Amor went into full-on sulk mode and just became part of the problem.

It keeps getting brought up as he keeps getting asked about it, in the same way Powell keeps getting asked about last years performances. I'm sure people will move on eventually, Feb 2024 probably!

Agree with much of the above, we had been saying for years that the club needed a change of culture, when it happened (some of) the players clearly weren't happy with it and that reflected in some pretty shocking performances for much of the season. I had thought that maybe Powell could have approached things differently, but the more I read about it, the more I think he was right to try and get it done as quickly as possible.

I'm sure the players who have moved club won't act in the same way at new clubs, I think there was a comfort factor here and they had confidence they should have had a bigger say in how thigs were ran - that won't happen when they go in to a new environment.

Amor hasn't painted himself in the best light for me (or at least the article hasn't), he was clearly brought in to help provide leadership and drive standards, he failed in that regard and gave up before the end of the year.

It shows change was needed, and the club and CEO were correct in backing the coach to make that change, even when things were going so wrong on the field.

Quote The Speculator="The Speculator"Wow, Amor is certainly not holding back here: https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/as-bad-a ... 022-70015/'" KA has gone up in my opinion of him, not that it was low anyway. His honesty is a quality. He had it in him not to suffer in silence. That I commend.

Quote The Speculator="The Speculator"Wow, Amor is certainly not holding back here: https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/as-bad-a ... 022-70015/'" KA has gone up in my opinion of him, not that it was low anyway. His honesty is a quality. He had it in him not to suffer in silence. That I commend.

To think I spat the dummy for posting 1 hour in the future and you’ve posted a whole 11months ahead!!

Amor was a bang average player and an even worse pundit.

Totally agree.

I think the likelihood is, he rocked up and was met with a load of stroppy players, who were trying to create as much aggro for their new boss as possible - When trying to be the willing new boy, prepared to put a shift in, he likely was then met with sulking fellas, telling him not to bother, and after a few weeks of that he's, rightly, told Powell it's an unworkable sh!+show.

To be honest, this just makes me more interested in seeing Powell's memoir in the future - I suspect there will be a number of former Wire players who won't come out of it particularly well, especially a certain leisurewear company entrepreneur...