Who chose the halfback pairing? Oh yes it was Noble! The man who will not give youth or British players a chance?



Sorry pal,i really have to disagree here. I will hold my hand up if i am wrong but the only people who look silly are the ones who have questioned Nobles ability as a coach. We have had every excuse under the sun that his sucsess at Bradford was not due to him. I remember Jonh at one point saying Noble had won all the trophys at Bradford by pure luck! Now that is making yourself look silly.







Your allowed your opinion of course,i just dont see what you base it on. We have been one game away from the grand final for the past 2 years losing out only to the eventual champions. The only thing that has been missing is the consistancy throughout the year and the exciting brand of RL that we saw tonight,something Noble himself vowed to change this year!







That is his next challenge yes. Consistancy is not something that happens overnight though. You firstly need a settled team working together as a unit and the players need to be prepared to turn up every week. Its no coincidence that Saints and Leeds have been a settled side for years and have been the most 2 consistant teams in the comp.







Keep questioning,its not like he has a very good track record is it?

I'm not really sure how to reply, as I am not sure what point (if any) you are making.



However, to answer your question



"so every poor performance can we all laugh at you?"



The answer is no.



There will be good performances and bad ones. However, what I didn't do (unlike yourself) is throw my rattle out of the pram and claim that our coach was useless, that he had lost the dressing room and no players were prepared to play for him.





After tonight you must surely see that you were wrong.



We may play poorly, we may get beaten, but a lot of the bile that was directed towards Noble was totally and completely unjustified, as a few of us posted to that effect.

you have to laugh you really do, tonight if anything was an indication of just how wrong things have been under Noble for 90% of the time and just what kind of performance the team is capable of.



Lets put the shoe on the other foot most of the Noble supporters have slated the players for there lack of ability and skills, have they proved all those doubters wrong tonight with a 1 off performance?

Let's not.



Let's point and laugh at the posters who were calling for Noble's head.





Let's laugh at the thought that they actually thought that they knew more about coaching and RL than he did.





Let's laugh at the egg on the face of the above posters.





Let's also point to the fact that it's only March. Noble's teams generally "kick on" around August/Sept time.





It's going to be funny to cut and paste some of the posts made by some posters as this season unfolds.





Let's do that shall we?

People seem to be trying to stray away from the original point of why i posted this thread.



Jonh/DaveO and the bandwagon jumpers pointed out Noble could only coach boring 5 drives and a kick Rugby.

Those people have well and truely been proven wrong tonight.



Those same people regulary said Noble would not give youth or English players a chance-Wrong as proven again tonight.



DaveO said Noble had been forced into playing young players through injurys. Whilst that is stating the obvious and something that happens at any club Noble has proven that he will stick with young British players as long as they perform. He has also shown that the saying that he will not drop players is also nothing but a myth.

They will for fear of having to backtrack on some crazy views.

One of those views being that Jonh knows better than the most sucsessful coach of the SL era!

Just a question have we been here before regards 1 off performances?



Did the tactics employed tonight highlight exactly what the Noble doubters have been calling for?



The stupidity of claiming Noble is suddenly a great coach after 1 good performance in the face of 4 poor ones blows my mind.



As i said i am happy to offer praise tonight as he deserves it given that performance, just as other performances have deserved criticism.



As i said earlier the people who seem to accuse me of having an inflated ego and agendas certainly seem to be trying to plump there own tonight.

LOL



You are now making yourself look VERY silly. I would stop posting for tonight if I were you.





ONE performance?



We are talking about the most successful coach in SL history.

No. It highlighted what can be achieved when the players follow the gameplan.

How about no?



How is there egg on anyone’s faces? Three pathetic performances against teams we should have either beat or literally destroyed, a scrappy win against Quins and an excellent win against what was a poor Bradford team and all of a sudden everything is rosy in the Garden? I really don’t think so. I can’t believe how easily pleased some fans are- guess that’s it we are gonna win the league eh?



I’m sorry but I’m still not happy and won’t be till we put a decent continuous run together. We all know this team can win against the likes of Bradford, Leeds, Warrington as we’ve been doing it for a few seasons now but it’s no good beating these then failing to beat Castleford, Wakefield & Hull KR is it! Or are you happy with one or two big wins then utterly pathetic shower of e performances like the Cas or Wakefield ones cause I’m not!!



Oh and please stop going on about how it only matters later in the comp. I want to watch my team win every week and play well for the majority of the season not two or three games at the end of the season. Any coincidence Leeds and Saints have been the two most consistent teams week in week out and they are the two who have contested the GF?



Noble is starting to turn it round but to suddenly suggest all is forgiven for the poor performances we’ve seen so far this season apart from tonight is laughable.

If History was all that mattered Ian Millward would still be coach at Wigan.



I have no interest on what he did at Bradford, for me his time at Wigan should be judged on just that, not what he did wth another club.



Tonight was a big tick against his name, happy to commend him as i have said, lets hope it is finally the start of something positive for the club.