Seth wrote:
Smith asserts that we've been in all the games this year and the majority could have gone either way. I'm not sure how he can say this is true as we never looked like beating leigh, KR, Salford and especially Warrington.
I don't know whether he means this or not, or whether he's trying to shield the players.
He's clearly an unorthodox coach, which may be in part how we got to the GF last year where he clearly got us playing as a team, which Agar couldn't do. I wish he would just come out and tell us what he is actually aiming for in performance, but the RL journos don't seem to press him on tactics enough. If he genuinely thinks we've played well in attack, what is he marking that against other than 'togetherness' which isn't exactly measurable. If he would give some indication as to what he's aiming for, at least we'd have an idea of how he's trying to play, as at the moment I've no idea!
As others have said though, this is a re-build and I'm sure many very senior high paid players have been told that they are not being offered new deals. That's not a great recipe for getting a team to but into what he's doing.
I think give us more transparency and a road map of where he sees this team going and more of us will get behind him. That's if he knows...
