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Was this the start of our decline and an indication of when the team spirit started to decline or is it just coincidence?

Just a thought

more of a coincedence i think

lunt wasnt playing much anyway

moore has been one of the better players for us

think its more down to the coach going to saints instead of oz and captain leaving to widnes

plus the fact wigan basically showed us up and showed the way for other teams to beat us...

brearley84 wrote:

more of a coincedence i think

lunt wasnt playing much anyway

moore has been one of the better players for us

think its more down to the coach going to saints instead of oz and captain leaving to widnes

plus the fact wigan basically showed us up and showed the way for other teams to beat us...

Tend to agree though the regular 2nd half of the season slump could be more endemic than down to Brown's uncertain future in the past and his set future plans this time around.

Widnes have improved since Moore has left.

OFFTHECUFF wrote:

Widnes have improved since Moore has left.

Widnes were always likely to improve the more they played at SL level but you are right they have.

espanyolswan wrote:

Tend to agree though the regular 2nd half of the season slump could be more endemic than down to Brown's uncertain future in the past and his set future plans this time around.

i remember some of last seasons reasons for the slump

players looking tired and had been over trained (the guy got sacked at the end of the season)

players busted and injured

the first one could be a possible once again...starting well but fading

I'd like to think its a coincidence, but part of me thinks that maybe what happened had an effect on some players maybe who were mates with Lunt or not mates with Moore etc.

Either way it DID start going wrong then .......

Cant help thinking that Nathans move to Saints has made him make some poor decisions and perhaps his manner with the players has changed. Add both of these factors to the equation then maybe -just maybe- we have the answer to this years slump

Either way I can only see one way moving forward to salvage whats left of the season

pep1505 wrote:

Cant help thinking that Nathans move to Saints has made him make some poor decisions and perhaps his manner with the players has changed. Add both of these factors to the equation then maybe -just maybe- we have the answer to this years slump

Either way I can only see one way moving forward to salvage whats left of the season

In a team sport, whatever level you are playing at, when you are giving your all and things are not going well there is strength to be had from looking around at your mates, seeing their commitment matches yours and somehow you find that extra effort to overcome adversity.

However if you doubt your mates, or they doubt you then that extra strength isn't there, in fact the doubt can sap your strength and desire. You don't want to fail but the confidence goes as does your strength and power, you get overcome by doubt and play like a shadow of your self - some would say like a skeleton!

Now where have I heard that? The problems are all in the head, but this patient needs a huge shock to revive it. How to deliver that shock?

espanyolswan wrote:

Tend to agree though the regular 2nd half of the season slump could be more endemic than down to Brown's uncertain future in the past and his set future plans this time around.

Hudds are a bit like Villa were under Martin O'Neill, a good side when in form but find it hard to turn a slump around. In all of Nathan Brown's seasons Hudds have been one of the top teams but there has been a collapse. 2009 and 2011 it was the end of the season. 2009 it was the final couple of months, starting just before we played you at Wembley (it was obvious Hudds weren't the team they had been a few weeks earlier which was lucky for us as back then we were still an inconsistent team that finished way off the playoffs). Last year the slump was more a general one of the second half of the season. In 2010 Hudds finished very strongly including knocking us out of the playoffs at the Halliwell Jones, but that year Hudds had a dire spell mid season.