whichever way he chooses to deal with them,its obviously not working.whatever was said during the week after the leigh debacle had no effect whatsover.the first half today was appalling

It’s clear as day that a majority of the playing squad needs to be cut from the club as the mentality and attitude is just not there and hasn’t been for some time. The recruitment and retention since 2018 had been very poor and too many deals were done as mates rates & favours which has set us back considerably. TS is likely to lose the battle but ultimately win the war at the end of the season. Listening to Powell regarding the struggle he had because of the rebuild he did during last season which he completed in the off season is very much were we are now.

I just hope that Smith has already made the decisions on the majority not being renewed and targets being sought and acquired for next season.



The lack of effort and application is inexcusable regardless of how talented or not the 17 maybe, they are playing like dead men walking.

TS is being diplomatic about the playing group and rightly so. He has to work with them on a daily basis. Looks like he’s tried to get them on side but for whatever reason they’re not capable or willing to give it a go.

I’m sure every fc fan would fully support playing some of our reserve team.

Sorry you don't agree but it was just comments like, "I'm pleased to say our responses in the second forty were a whole lot better." Ive watched that back since and we were by and large just the same in the second half, players completely lost in the attacking line and failing to win the wrestle in defence. Fact is Warrington were just cruising with one eye on next week, and who can blame them, and that made us look a little better.

Our young aussies are e

Tony Smith wrote:

We had a good win in reserve grade today and that's a positive for us.There will certainly be some boys from that reserve grade game that will feature for us next week. There's no doubt about that.



Sorry Tony but its just not working for you here

Your interviews are becoming boring and dont reflect what we are seeing on the field and maybe this laid back approach that you have is also sending the players to sleep so they dont wake up until the second half.

You had an opportunity today to try something different at half back as we all can see Lovodua at six just doesnt work.Hoy is a huge disappointment at full back and maybe a few weeks at six would give him more opportunity to run with the ball and increase his confidence.Litten then would been available to have played in his best position at full back as he is not a winger.

You could then have played Mitch on the wing which at least would have bolstered that right edge defence but looks like his face doesnt fit as he was relegated to playing in the reserves today after also missing out last week.

For some reason you keep faith by playing Houghton and Taylor Why? These two are way past their best and should be top of the get rid list followed by Evans,Lovodua,Griffin and Shaul.

Satae has gone backwards this season and could be unsettled due to Sao leaving.

As fans we all know this season would be difficult with a major re build for 2024 but since Smith has arrived the defence is a shambles.If there is one thing we know a coach can do is produce a hard to beat defensive team out of average players and this is where Smith should have started.Make us hard to beat then start to improve the attack.

Had high hopes for Smith then started to have doubts when Gene was announced as his assistant.

Now i dont think he will see out the season

A very honest post.

youre cock on smith is becoming boring , everything you say is true, he also started babbling his garbage at rovers but i

suppose he deserves a little time

May as well talk to the wall Wilf

That comment by Smith about the second half was the last straw for me

I seriously dont think his heart is in the job.There is no anger, no passion.

He will make it easy for Pearson and walk away

Don't talk nonsense. He was never going to turn it around in seven games and he's not the sort of coach who is going to lose his rag on live TV. That doesn't mean his heart isn't in it.

Don't know why it's difficult for some people to realise what Smith says infront of the cameras and what he says behind them will be different things.



7 games in and people are already calling for him to be sacked is pathetic.

Smith has been in this game for a long time and I've never seen him be anything but measured in front of the camera or when talking to the press. Why would he change that approach now?

You really do talk some Sh.ite

I’ve said this regularly

Of the 20 out of contract - only renew 3



simple as that



pick the 3 at the end of the season



there is a cancer in the Club



AP also is the Boss and Chief Exec - a lot of it now clearly lies with him !!!!!

But the same players not up to it are still in the team week after week



Send a statement out and play some youngsters

I am not just talking about 7 games i am talking about what he has also done with the team in Pre season.

The seven games we have seen say its been very little apart from producing an unfit squad who have lost the ability to tackle

Lets see shall we

We've just got a lot of players who aren't good enough



We've gone from having players like ellis minchello manu in our pack not that long ago to players like fash Griffin and lane



Even savelio isn't close to them players at their best



Smith and Pearson now have a great chance to get rid of the deadwood that are out of contract



But question is will he ? Cause worry is I can see a fair few getting new deals

Quite easily, pound for pound, the worst hull side I’ve seen in my 20 years of watching them.



I think it sums up that 20 of them are OOC and they genuinely don’t look interested in earning a new contract, not that I’d want to keep them anyways, but at least some effort and desire.



Lovodua simply isn’t a half back, I sympathise with him to a degree that he’s been asked to do a job he simply can’t do but even his defence is poor. I never thought I’d be desperate for McNamara to be fit but here we are…



Really wanted Tex to do well here, and he still might, but he just seems like a young lad who wants to go back home. And in all honestly I couldn’t blame him. Shame about his injury, and hopefully nothing too serious, but it may spark the reshuffle in our spine we need.



Seeing quite a few posts showing sympathy towards AP and the DJ, mine only stretches so far, they were happy to sign up some of these clowns to their deals at the time. They are not rugby people who started to get involved in rugby decisions. Their naive approach to not replacing Motu Tony is what has found us in the position we are in and they only have themselves to blame for where we are.



To sum up, we are big time screwed, bleak times when you’re watching out for Wakey’s result each week…

Three Pigeons for second half with a few others who had baled.

We got the landlord to turn it off with 20 to go...........

Find the Hoy bashing mental too.



Most games he's been our top carrier, metre maker, tackle buster pretty much every game hes played in.



He was very good in the Cas and Leeds games. Even the Saints game.

Seens like he's bonaires new poster-boy.

Not seen the game, bur Hoys stats look good, but his effort on Drinkwater was poor. Rovers fans seem to have a weird obsession with him. Think he will come good, particularly if the pack starts to play.



Their first 4 trys, 2 of them were from really good kicks which are hard to stop, a poor miss from Lovodua and a drop ball.

We’re going to have to ride this out with the players we have, as just dropping young players into a struggling team will just do more harm than good.

This isn’t Smiths first rodeo, and if anyone thinks that he is calm and passive behind the scenes then they’re deluded.

Also our great pack and team of 2016 didn’t have a great start. They had to lock the coach out of the dressing room, and come from 20 points down in a derby to kick start that particular season.

Difference is then we had leaders on the field. Now there aren’t any.

This must be Smiths most difficult job yet?