Quote: Once were Loiners "Absolutely agree on that tad. I'd say some of the off-season stuff was fine, in terms of building team spirit etc. But Smith really did seem to treat pre season games as a bit of a mess about, which went into the early season with the short kick offs etc.
If you start the season strong you get points in the bank, which cover when the inevitable injuries/patches of poor form arise. I understand the idea of tapering to the end of the season, but if you never really get going you get what we have this year, just bumbling around mid table. Frankly in many ways we never seemed to fully recover from the shellacking at Warrington on the opening day of the season.'"
The Warrington game rang alarm bells with me, we weren’t up for the fight against a highly committed Warrington team. Similar against Cas we weren’t up for that game either. Also let’s not forget the game at Wakefield when we had a reasonable team on display and lost that one against a woeful Wakefield side.