IMO that says as much about the youngster than it does about our coach.

Sorry but what tactics are these and more importantly what wins!!!

he looks like the pringle man and walks like a slug

peace

Slugs dont walk you numpty!

Mcrae dont walk he rolls.

But agree with you on the Pringle man point!

Exactly my thoughts mate. Also why am i stirring by not telling you who it was? all i'm going to say is that it was one of our young members of the 1st team squad.

Don't you think you have over stepped the line with personal insults to our head coach?...Call his tactics but being personal is below the belt, so just grow up .

I just feels he looks at what he has and knows at this point in his teams development we dont have the firepower physically and mentally to destroy teams.

What we do well is spoil, play percentage rugby, complete our sets, smother our opposition and eventually sqeeze the life out of them.
It aint very attractive to watch or even to play i can image but its all about durability.

Our last two games the players have stuck to the game plan very well, in the post match interviews mcrae was spot on in what went wrong (leeds - failing to complete the 1st 4 sets resulting in being pinned in our half so leeds scored just after half time) and (bradford - we basically bombed the chances that came our way because when the pressure was on we turned over the ball)

Nothing to do with mcrae and his lack of tactical knowledge (without any big units @ his disposal both @ leeds and bradford his tactics when attacking our opponents last 3RD has been very good, our problem has been in our inability to break out of our 30m) just our players struggling to cope with the pressure cooker atmosphere of superleague.

I feel the players will benefit from this in the games to come as they now know they are able to perform @ this level consistanly, with a bit of luck and personal development ie not making the same mistakes again and again our players will take the next step and cross the thin line which seperates a winner and a loser.

Sorry Rob that that is simply seeing things rose tinted specs.

Our tactics are poor, McRaes post match interviews are insulting to the paying public.

Our forwards take the ball standing still, we don't have any dummy runners. We are predictable and the worst tactic of all is allowing Alker to play at dummy half. He is beyond slow, and the contributing factor to why we can't get out from our own line. Defensive teams know what we are going to do and close us down the receiver aided by small 10 metres. the only way we make any metres is when we play off the cuff and Holdsworth is backed up.

I'm not a great one for slagging the coach but I don't see what improvements he has brought to the team, I can't see his vision for the future or the structures he is putting in place for that development. Under Harrison at least you could see the progress and see where the improvements and changes benefited the team. Harrison had many faults and maybe stubborn and not adapting led to his downfall.

McRae isn't improving this team and isn't managing it either. I wonder who is in control. Situations such as the turner one should not get to the point where a player leaves becasue of it.