Re: Serious issues..... : Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:42 pm  

Lord Tony Smith wrote:

Big changes needed for me and they should start at the top. No trophy for almost a decade despite having the most resources available.

Hill and Cooper coming off after 20 mins today. Hill had just had 2 weeks off. We look so unfit and devoid of ideas. Thank God everyone else bar Saints are crap otherwise we'd struggle to make the top 5.

Recruitment has been a disgrace, as has the blind faith in players that are not and never will be good enough. Take Dec Patton out the team give Livett a go next to Austin. Ship Tasi away to Crosfields for the rest of the season (though I'm not sure he'd get a game). Bring back Westwood to give us some bite. Akaoula does about 15 mins when he plays, same with BMM (he used to play around 50-60mins at Salford). What has Ade Gardner been doing?

Our style is boring and predictable. Five drives and a high bomb. No risk or initiative or pre planned plays. What do we do in training every day?

Helping Saints out even though he's left?

Re: Serious issues..... : Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:50 pm  

I think maybe the secret of Saint's runaway form is that they have got rid of Gardner. Under Clarke we were much fitter. Luckily we have a big enough cushion to avoid a relegation dogfight which i think we could lose.

Re: Serious issues..... : Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:56 pm  

Psychedelic Casual wrote:

So, it’s not that anything has gone wrong, it’s that Hull away was an anomaly of a game. Almost the whole rest of the season has shown what we really are: an inconsistent half decent side, who have runs of good and bad form.

I haven't suggested that we should play to that level each week, although there's.nothing wrong with that as a target. What I'm saying is that the style of play we showed that night is a million miles from what we've played since.

Within weeks of the Hull game we'd lost a couple, and immediately switched to boring robotic RL. Why? The starting 17 hadn't changed much but they suddenly looked like a team who'd forgotten how to gain an advantage and ram it home.

Re: Serious issues..... : Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:58 pm  

Lord Tony Smith wrote:

What do we do in training every day?

Love Island on ITV Hub.

Re: Serious issues..... : Sun Jul 21, 2019 7:06 pm  

just_browny wrote:

Love Island on ITV Hub.

The players were all in Greece and Malaga last week after the Salford defeat so that wouldn't surprise me.

Re: Serious issues..... : Sun Jul 21, 2019 7:23 pm  

Lord Tony Smith wrote:

The players were all in Grease, last week.

Edited for accuracy, and our second rowers playing like Olivia Newton John

Re: Serious issues..... : Sun Jul 21, 2019 7:40 pm  

So are we going to start asking questions of Price or not?

Re: Serious issues..... : Sun Jul 21, 2019 7:48 pm  

The style of rugby is the most boring in the league. I wouldn't mind that much if it actually won games but it clearly doesn't and to persist with the same team is ridiculous. We'll soon find out if Price is good enough.

Re: Serious issues..... : Sun Jul 21, 2019 7:55 pm  

This 'style' of rugby is clearly based towards trophy winning. He has to win at least one this season or he can go for me. There's been no improvements in fact regression and wasting a season waiting around for a man with a seriously dicky shoulder doesn't cut it for a club with our resources.

Re: Serious issues..... : Sun Jul 21, 2019 8:05 pm  

Moe syslak wrote:

So are we going to start asking questions of Price or not?

If we lose next week, he'll be on thin ice I think.