Smith blames performance on fatigue, Not that some of are players are not good enough. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 986302.stm He must of forgot castleford also played friday

Smith blames performance on fatigue, Not that some of are players are not good enough. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 986302.stm He must of forgot castleford also played friday

We where fatigued today, you could see it.

It comes down to a very poor pre-season with a fitness conditioner and coach who where not very good.

We are reaping what was sown inbetween Paul Cullen going and Tony Smith coming in and the worry is it could have set us back 2 or 3 years.

We are reaping what Cullen sown......Lowes was left with his mess, and made it messier.....Smith has been left with an absolute shambles.

Well thats ok then. They dont have to try because of the mess the last 2 managers left. How about some of them are not good enough and need to be dropped and give sum one else a chance. After playing 10 games or so there must be a problem if there not fit enough by now, or would those 2 extra friendlys made a difference and we would be playing well maybe near the top.

At least with Cull we looked like we might score a try every few hours or so.

Respect to the Cullen disciples....keep the faith!!...

dont know if you realised or not cullen left last year. So they need to play under Smith or is every one gonna start a post saying " we want cullen "
just so we can score. people should stop blaming coaches, the board and get to the main problem most of the players are not interested. If they dont like it leave

I think its time we stop blaming Cullan! its a bit sad!!!

Quote ="Birch24"Smith blames performance on fatigue, Not that some of are players are not good enough. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 986302.stm He must of forgot castleford also played friday'" saints have played 3 games in 8 days no sign of fatigue, thats a feeble excuse agee with you NOT GOOD ENOUGH

Quote ="Birch24"Smith blames performance on fatigue, Not that some of are players are not good enough. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 986302.stm He must of forgot castleford also played friday'" saints have played 3 games in 8 days no sign of fatigue, thats a feeble excuse agee with you NOT GOOD ENOUGH

Bit of a funny reaction if you ask me.

Smith's keeping it low key. The latter comment re not being able to turn things round in 6 weeks is the key point.

Still makes me laugh how people still keep bringing Paul Cullens name up..

Cullen left with a top Conditioner in place. Today we have a part time gym owner that has given us players who can't last the 80minutes.

Jimmy Lowes jobs for the boys...

Why do we always start blaming the things we can't see

Darbyshire was first, he was crap? wasn't he?
Cullen needed a assistant, thats what's wrong he's doing everything...
Stridgeon's techniques are meaning the players were getting injured more
What can Nigel Wright bring to the table, he did nothing as a player?
Who's this Hamshaw fella.. gym owner.. he must be gash.

Made a change to Paul Cullens jobs for the boys.

Rather have Tonys mates though.

I don't beleive that it is down to Paul Cullen, we where more than fit enough at the beggining of last season with a professional fitness conditioner.

This season we where conditioned by one of Jimmys mates who has none of the qualifications that Strigeon as a top conditioner had.

You only have to speak to the players about what they thought of the pre-season to realise that it wasn't very good and that includes the British Players that have won things in the game.

I seem to remember players going on record saying it was a great pre-season and they had not been spared the rod. Seems to me we shouldn't always listen to players.

Also I am getting mightily concerned now that our poor form is being used to pimp up the PC era. He presided over the period of malaise for years, we are simply picking up the pieces now.

does that mean 2012 is the year of the wolf?

Oh Christ here we go...Change the record clown..

Yeah....

Oh lighten up it was kinda funny

Agreed.