Joined: Feb 20 2007 Posts: 10540 Location: Hunting Gopher
Mr. Zucchini Head wrote:Head was never a viable long term option because of his knees, but he was easily the most talented 7 we've had in the Superleague era.
Agreed. His kicking game off his weaker foot was as good as most others we've had. He'd have been a regular at at least SOO level if it hadn't been for his injuries.
UllFC wrote:Holdsworth and Sneyd have spent their time in SL at Cas and Salford who with all due respect have been in the bottom end of the table and the Championship for the last decade, neither have done it at a big club.
Sneyd was ripping it up at Cas in first half of last season at top end of the table. His end of year stats clearly show he is a decent player. Our lack of go forward and total reliance on our halfs to create everything seems to be major issue. We have little or nothing coming from our 9 or 13 and our 2nd rows are just workhorses. Our gameplan or playbook is so one dimensional and easy for the other team to read it is embarrassing to watch. Our complete lack of pace on the fringes doesn't help but there cannot be any excuse for our mind numbing predictability in pretty much everything we do. This can only be coming from the coach I guess as the players seem unwilling or unable to come up with anything off the cuff or show any variation to keep the other team guessing. From our kick offs to our set plays to the inside drop off pass its the same every week! Come on Lee, get it sorted or move aside as its simply not good enough.
Joined: Feb 20 2007 Posts: 10540 Location: Hunting Gopher
How many halfbacks do we need to go through before people realise it's the more fundamental weaknesses we have that are the main problems? Any halves will never deliver to their fullest for us until we have sufficient quality and options for them to work with.
What ever anyone thinks the trouble is this is going to have a long term effect on this club and its fortunes and this was always my fear with the present set up. Radford may well be a good coach given a bit of time, he is not going to get it no amount of papering over the cracks is going to save him or the club this time.
AP has to take on a top coach and PTQ............
Halt the decline
Turn it around #
Make some great signings for next term
and then we may just manage to salvage something from this mess, we are right in the brown stuff now and doing nothing will really bring it on big time.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.;
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Joined: Jul 15 2005 Posts: 29816 Location: West Yorkshire
number 6 wrote:2008, 2009, 2014 all over again!
absolute cr@p!!
dumb lazy players, one man rugby, predictable set plays!
suppose that is what you get when you appoint an amateur coach!
amateur players and plays!
I'll give you the dumb and predictable. However the effort is there IMO. The likes of Rankin, Houghton, Pryce, Mini, Paea, Thompson never gave up. Must be so frustrating for them.
carl_spackler wrote:How many halfbacks do we need to go through before people realise it's the more fundamental weaknesses we have that are the main problems? Any halves will never deliver to their fullest for us until we have sufficient quality and options for them to work with.
Exactly. Plenty on here claiming our problems were down to our lack of decent halfs but it's way deeper than that
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