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No it wasnt. You have lost your edge.
maybe people feel someone suffering a serious injury isnt a particularly ripe area for poor attempts at irony. Its not a huge issue, it makes Clarke look classless and tasteless whether he was being serious or not.

Maybe if you have a car crash tomorrow and are sitting in a hospital bed wondering if you will be able to work again you and your work colleagues may also struggle to see the ironic humour in your predicament.

Id be a little disappointed in his professionalism as well if a public face of our game was using an players injury as an opportunity for trolling, its a fairly pathetic past-time to start with more suited to the lonely and socially maladjusted never mind his subject matter.



you seemed to have answered a different question to the one i asked aswell, which isnt like you

Unfortunately no. Leeds fans will be wearing their usual.

Quick Matron...... the smelling salts! Exeter is having one of his turns!

As you've just spent the afternoon brown nosing on the Wigan board, I don't think we can give much credence to your thoughts Mary Poppins.

ALL press releases will have been signed off by GH prior to release.

That's brill. Go and post it on the Wigan Board. They've got a Phill Clarke mask thread.

I think Clarke saw an opportunity to ruffle a few Rhinos hairs.

The initial classlessness and tastelessness came from McClennan.

McGuire illegally took out Carmont and suffered a serious self-inflicted injury in the process.

McClennan (who appears to be losing the plot of late) immediately suffers a knee-jerk emotional reaction to that bad news by accusing a Wigan player of inflicting the injury on McGuire off the ball.

Meanwhile the Wigan players have got over the loss quickly and moved on whilst their more professional coach has maintained a dignified silence, hasn't got involved in any sh[ii[/it-stirring and is concentrating on preparations for the next game(s).

Up steps Phil Clarke to stir the pot.

And he's done it extremely successfully.

RL pundit from Sky TV being deliberately controversial, eh? Shock Horror! They aren't employed to be impartial... they are employed to generate hype, generate interest which in turn means generating more subscriptions to Sky Sports.

The Leeds coach, players and fans seriously need to get a grip before Saturday and quit relentlessly chomping and chelping. It ain't a good look.

Reminds me of someone who had a dig at you earlier today

Well he did it in a very tasteless way. The fact thats what he aimed to do doesnt mitigate it.

And that is relevent to Clarke because?
no he didnt, he suffered a chance injury in the normal course of a game. The fact it was suffered in committing a minor infringement is neither here nor there


Im comfortable with my coach showing emotion. His ability to build team spirit (an emotion after all) is reference by some very very experienced and successful players as helping THEM perform to the best of their abilities and win trophies.

Because the actions of their players were indefensible. Im sure they regret it and didnt do it in full knowledge of Mcguire's injury, but they arent going to come out and apologise at this stage are they.
If Phil Clarke acts with such a lack of class he should be pulled up for it, I've no problem with Clarke being controversial, simply being offensive.

Im sure your limited knowledge of performing in a big game is of no interest to 3 time consecutive SL winners, a tri-nations winning coach, an GB captain or anyone else affiliated with the club.

They have been through controversies bigger than this and come out winners in the end and at the end of the week we will see if they can do it this year.

Show some class and put the Clarke comments to bed, it really will not help you this weekend. Clear heads are needed to win and I feel chanting obscene stuff at Phil Clarke on national TV will really show the club up in a bad light.

You're coach has voiced the opinion of the club and it should be left at that. I've no doubt Phil Clarke regrets the way his comments have been interpreted but at least he said what he was thinking and did not toe the party line. Maybe that's why he left his position of GB manager and why the international team is in such a mess.

I hope the best team wins this week and no player from either club is injured (or commentators lol).

Only from the perspective of a knee-jerking t perhaps.



It was a clear indication of a large number of rhinos ts just ripe for the picking





He suffered a chance injury when committing a major infringement in a crucial part of the game when Wigan had created a match winning opportunity. Your inability to comprehend context is once again duly noted.



Too much emotion leads to losing the plot completely and McClennan doesn't have much further to travel in that particular direction.



Thomas Leuluai already has... please try and keep up.



I doubt he'll lose much sleep over winding up a bunch of ts.



And neither is yours. OTOH, they are interested in Phil Clarke's interjections are they not?





There'd be no controversy this time around but for the amount of cheating, chelping and childish chomping emanating from the emotionally dysfunctional Rhinos club right now.

HTH

Well I disagree. If his intention was to make some sort of point then i wouldnt have an issue with it. As it was apparently just to annoy people it was in bad taste.

Like someone making a joke at the expense of holocaust victims perhaps?
and that was relevant to Clarke because
I didnt argue it wasnt a crucial part of the game. I argued it was a minor infringment and that it wasnt self-inflected. Im not sure how you confused these very different things.

He has proved he is top class judge of that, he is in the position to prove himself again. Only a true t would judge his ability to get his team ready for the big matches, not on his record in big matches but something he said during a week off.

Good on him.
I dont think he will either. I think he might worry about his relationship with clubs and players, what with it being part of his job and everything.

Im well aware of that. Which is why, unlike other ts i have avoided prejudging Leeds reaction to this week and am more than happy to allow them to prove themselves.



Surely it is the height of knee-jerk tery to pre-judge the emotional impact of the controversy when you have no reference point.

If Leeds come out on Saturday and blow Wigan away will you happily admit that McClennan has played you and your fellow knee-jerkers for fools? And accept that maybe you have shot your bolt a little early?