knockersbumpMKII wrote:That is why Miloudi and Harris should play in the halves so we are not exposed out wide as we were by a team that would have being beaten by Fev/Toronto and Tolouse, Connor can shore up out wide with whoever is on the wing.
Yes we won but frankly it highlights so many problems with the coach and his inability to address the same issues that crop up time and time and time again no matter who plays.
There was a chance to play last week someone who had played in the halves and doing extremely well by all accounts, there was another chance today but again ignored which meant ridiculously we played with 12 men and a has been who did nothing all match except give a stupid pen away, bomb a try (natch) and make a handful of tackles, oh I think he made 6-7 metres on one run when he had space.
It's the failure to recognise that sending out a has been (in fact re-signing a has been or two) and not trusting to a youngster is definitely the wrong call, aside from injuries at the back end of 2014 when the season was over and the "million pounds in the stand" Warrington game Easter '16 it's been the staple of Radford's tenure.
We kept banging it down the middle and failed to get it out wide, by sheer weight of the fact KR were utter crud and our forwards were right on it, we had some success but if we'd have spread it wide we'd have had more success. So fixated with banging it down the middle we couldn't capitalise when they were down to 12 and were outflanked by 12 men
Connor produced a quality pass and a great individual run, aside from that he didn't really produce the goods (a lucky bounce off the crossbar doesn't count). He punted it too far downfield so they had an unchallenged catch too often, and it was too often the only play we had ...again!
Full strength we have one of the best squads in SL, easily top 4, the problem at the moment is the coach, he's simply incapable of changing how we play to actually improve our attack, he has not being able to change what the players do which results in penalty after penalty and getting involved in niggle we don't need to stoop too, Matongo made a mountain out of a molehill at the end, I mean really, wtf was that, immature or what!
This game highlighted again why we will not move forward with Radford in charge, I thought he might have turned a corner but he really hasn't.
For all of the posters on here saying stop moaning, they clearly don't see the bigger picture as to what the underlying issues are and how we haven't addressed that in the slightest injuries or not.
Wow. This has left me speechless.
