Seth wrote:Weve said similar so many times this year, this team (though they raised their efforts for Rob against Leigh) dont have that level of desire in them.
Totally agree. I sat watching them warm up in a very slap- dash fashion and feared they'd be poor. I didn’t think for a minute they'd be that poor. This was on the back of another week off to "reset". By the look of Lisone resetting appears to involve a succession of all you can eat buffets. I can't remember winning a game and feeling so dispirited.
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I take it Arthur will have Walker and Grix as his backroom support? Good luck with that although they do have a 100% success rate this season!
No desire, no determination, no set plays and no heart. Those who think we retain Fusitua are deluded, Momorovski I`m sure plays in slow motion, Miller, Frawley, Lisone, Sangare, Goudemand and even Ackers, Newman, McDonnell and Smith look like relatively good Chmpionship players at best. I have never seen a team of so called quality players go backwards as much as the team that plays in blue and amber.
Said it before but I'm really concerned about both first choice centres at the minute. Newman has been very ropey at various stages this year - he had one great run today but that was about it. Mom just hasn't done much, although he's clearly a good player I'm just not convinced.
I have this sense of dread that actually most of RS's recruitment will need to be rewound. Most of the side today were either rocks and diamonds, or just rocks. If London had been more intelligent they'd have spotted up Newman and come down his side for an easy try to win the game - Kershaw was calling it but they didn't execute.
I was really disappointed we didn't use this game to give Sinfield and Littlewood a go. That was close to our strongest 17 on paper - it was our first choice back division. Its hard to see how the players in that 17 could play worse.
There's clearly something wrong in terms of attitude, but the gameplan is utterly non-existent. Some of the problems can be fixed by a coach who has very clear ideas about how we should play, and with a simple gameplan focused on being more aggressive with and without the ball and playing for position we'd look so much better.
But we also have to face the harsh reality that some of our squad really aren't good enough. Rohan said something about the plan being to bring through the next generation of kids over the next 2 years. I don't see much reason for wasting time with persevering with the first choice squad. This year should be all about senior players showing they want to stay at Leeds, and giving as much reasonable game time as we can to juniors. I can accept us not doing much for the rest of this season if the younger players get some experience. I cannot accept not giving them a go and we're still rubbish.
As already mentioned, the mentality around this club is absolutely disgusting, its widespread and been going on for years. Yesterday shouldnt suprise anyone, coming off a half decent result, the useless puddings suddenly think they're the 82 Aussies.
They think they're better than they are, put their leeds tracksuit on, burn a few belongings, talk some absolute poop about personality colour schemes, hang JJB's poop metal Rhino on a wall and they think they've made it, just have to turn up against someone like London
Add in 3 god awful coaching hires in a row, influencing these players, recipe for disaster. Yesterday was Smith rugby in a bottle, why work hard and play physical and patient, when theres all these shortcuts you can try, his rebuild has been a total disaster.
Good news, atleast GH/the club seem to have finally woke up, relised the game has passed him by, relised being an ex player with no experience isnt the answer, and got someone with an actual CV and recent expierience of successfully building squads and hiring coaches, in to sort it out. So despite yesterday, im pretty excited for the future, by that i mean the rest of this season once Arther gets here, and next season with Blease getting hold of everything...No 5 year plans, in rugby terms, its an utter myth fed by incompetent people, everyone will say it, but the competent onces will do it in one or two.
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