This response, purely focusing on today is exactly why we are, the club we are. Some fans are blinkered and blind to that fact we should do better and be ruthless in doing so. We accept mediocrity. Lets raise the bar, just a little.
Joined: Feb 19 2009 Posts: 1957 Location: East stand!
Fc_exile wrote:Now the dust has settled/settling we all need to be objective. By ALL i mean the entire club; chairman to staff to players to fans.
The result today, whilst excellent was not deserved. The first 60 minutes was to similar to Widnes and our attack was all to similar to the previous 3 seasons. As an avid fan of over 30 years, I'm a little frustrated at continuously saying our club is in 'transition.' I do not want to come across as pessimistic (overly), but where is our season going? The next 4 games are; Warrington, St Helens, Leeds & Huddersfield. On that performance i struggle to see us gaining more than 2 points, at most.
But who is to blame? It has to be Radford. This is his team, his philosophy, his coaching, his personnel. Radford has a win percentage of 40%!!!! Gentle - 56% Agar - 48%
So why in Gods name are we sticking with Radford?
Another issue i have is our recruitment. I do not want to come over as a smart ass but before he signed i watched a lot of Pritchard i said he was average at best, or at least not worth such a hefty salary. In fact, i believe he has regressed since his Bulldog days and his waistline has significantly increased. But this is the management's fault, and not the first time they have allotted such a salary cap proportion on players without necessarily improving results, i could name, Berrigan, Westerman, Holdsworth, Long. Whilst these are very good players, they didn't improve results. So what is the issue!!!!!
What a tremendous load of tripe. Pritchard was 1 of the standouts in the NRL last yr, to say otherwise is just stupid and totally lacking of rugby knowledge and ignoring what decent callers of the game like sterling fitler gould n johns were saying. Also warriors saw fit to offer a deal. In fact it is the dumbest thing I've read in a while. The top metre maker forward wise on the pitch today. From both sides
the big fat overweight ,over rated ,over paid no mark did 143 metres yesterday and did more than half the Rovers pack put together,he is our top metre maker and he gets poop like this said about him .Get real for once FFS
Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 7735 Location: Here there and everywhere
The game is played for 80 minutes. It's extremely rare to fluke a win in RL. We defended fairly well for the entire game. Our attack was flat for the first 60 mins. Was the the coaches instruction? I very much doubt it, given the quotes for the coach and senior players in recent weeks. When we did run the ball on the last, Mini flipped the ball into Sio's hands and we conceded.
I think there are few on here who only watch highlights of game on TV. The idea a team can throw the ball around like a pass the parcel game on every set is deluded. Every team will have sets of one out stuff. It's part of the game. It's what you do with it close to the line which is more of a concern. Ironically, having our big lads charging on to the ball from a yard or two out might actually be a better thing to do.
But then again there are a fair few on here who seek to criticise when we win a game from 20 nil down with 20 mins left in the back yard of our arch rivals.
Did we deserve to win? We scored more tries and (more importantly) more points than the opposition. One things for sure, Rovers didn't deserve it win and that's purely down tho their final 20 minutes.
A team with a decent set of fans (sweeping statement, but you get my drift) would be talking about "finding a way to win" yet some on here maintain the anti radford agenda. I honestly do know why some bother .
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