Quote: "As an ambassador of the club I work for & love, having supported for almost 40 years, I sometimes wonder why I bother responding to negative posts on this messageboard, but sometimes things have to be said.
There's nothing like a defeat to bring out the dead-wood, negativity, etc etc.
But, tonight I'm aware to the fact that certain players shouldn't have played due to injury and recovery from injury, but they did and from what I saw, nobody deliberately knocked on, missed a tackle or whatever you'd like to criticise.'"
You cant blame Calland for miss tackles, knock ons but for me he is responsible for discipline ( On and Off the Field), Defence and the team having a plan and working as a team to achieve results. What I fail to understand is that we have let in 336 this year-only the bottom 4 have a worse record! We all know Fax have problems defending. Yet I see NO change in this area. Discipline (Both in Defence and attack) is awful. We should know what each Ref is like and what they will focus on. Yet once again we commit the same stupid mistakes. We try forcing passes that simply are never on-Aizue, Maloney, Penkywicz , Black etc. Each time we lose or struggle, Calland blames his players for not sticking to the game plan. Why not? They are his players he has brought in. Why cant he inspire them when the going gets tough? Why cant Fax go back to basics when we struggle?
Quote: "The criticisms aimed at Calland & his staff for each & every loss are in my opinion grossly unfair.
Do people think that we practice the art of losing the ball, missing a tackle, losing to a better team ?
Tonight we were beaten by a better team, so what. No Tamghart, Wrench, Haley, Larder & blokes putting their hands up to play for the team when they were clearly less than 100%, I'd say let's see what the end of the seaon brings and not judge anyone now.'"
Its the manner of the defeats mate. Its the way we never sort out the problems which cause us to lose or struggle. I sadly cant see us winning a trophy under Calland due to the reasons above and these problems have been there since Calland started. If you cant defend you are unlikely to win a trophy. It may look good scoring heaps of tries but against a good well drilled side its not that easy.
