Judder Man wrote:Outsider looking in, Smith is coaching a team with very little basic structure to fall back on when under pressure. Last season he tried to play expansive rugby from anywhere on the pitch worked for a short period but the percentages for consistent success is low.
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The likes of Wigan, Saints and Catalan have great basic defensive structures with controlled attacks, it looks as though Warrington have joined the party as well this season.
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Leeds play too much off the cuff rugby which can break down quickly and they end up under pressure. Hull KR and Salford are similar but perhaps do it a little bit better because of team work, Leeds don't look like a "togetherness team" and Rohan Smith is responsible for that.
I agree. But your last comment is interesting because I feel like every pre-season in the recent past we’ve had to put up with culture chat, where they do a song and a dance about how they’re developing some culture “spirit of the rhinos” or some other mentality related blurb. This pre-season we had Cameron smith rabbiting on about colours, how certain players were this colour and that colour based on how they responded to different types of communication.
Every pre-season we sit through this bollox and then the real business starts and they serve up rubbish and are mid-table. What’s the point?
Saints and Wigan don’t have to do a song and a dance about culture, it just is.
The club has got lost in the mythology of the “golden generation” and keep trying to recapture that spirit.
Just f*cking move on. It’s been nearly a decade.
