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| Quote: Shabino "I actually like the style Smith is ‘trying ‘ to play. The problem is he doesn’t seem to realise we don’t have the basics, or toughness to give a good base for that style of play. Was embarrassingly easy for Walmsely and co, then the backs are left with trying to pull off miracle plays……'"
Yup. With no foundation, we become extremely flaky, and it becomes pretty much impossible to throw the ball around. When that happens, Smith's rugby becomes incredibly boring one man rugby which we are horrible at because the pack is so weak, or we start resorting to extremely gimmicky high risk attacking plays.
I don't think it's a coincidence that two teams that keep winning the division play nothing like us and have real robust forward packs. We can't even do the basics.
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| Quote: Rommel "Again what do you see in Oledski?'"
I said the exact same thing about 5 years ago when Leeds fans were claiming he was already better than Walmsley.
He’s absolute trash.
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| Quote: tomlufc "Yup. With no foundation, we become extremely flaky, and it becomes pretty much impossible to throw the ball around. When that happens, Smith's rugby becomes incredibly boring one man rugby which we are horrible at because the pack is so weak, or we start resorting to extremely gimmicky high risk attacking plays.
I don't think it's a coincidence that two teams that keep winning the division play nothing like us and have real robust forward packs. Smith unfortunately isn't going to reinvent the wheel here, we can't even do the basics.'"
It’s becoming increasingly obvious. Sad to say it as I wanted Smith and the team to work out………
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| Quote: Rommel "Again what do you see in Oledski?'"
Hey, leave him alone ! He’s the only decent prop we’ve got. :
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| Has anyone ever seen Sangare make more than one meter. It was an all round bad performance again. Six games and in and 33 minutes of playing well .
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| We should win 4 of the next 5. The spine will start to gel. Mom will get better.
4 proper props plus Goudemand is the way. O’Connor and 2 smallish second rowers doesn’t work
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| I know some think he's a bit of a mouthpiece for the club, but we can't blame Pete for this one. At least he dresses the part on the press conferences unlike some of the so-called journalists turning up every week.
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| Quote: Smithout "Has anyone ever seen Sangare make more than one meter. It was an all round bad performance again. Six games and in and 33 minutes of playing well .'" Sangare 6.33 Metres per carry this season Holroyd 6.11 Mik 7.31 Lisone 7.21
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| Before we blame all on Smith, can we honestly answer which of our players would get into the Saints team?
Maybe Martin at a push….?
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| Quote: Smithout "All of them probably'" So you don't actually know.
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| Frustrating thing for me us we have some really good players. Get a few decent set moves designed to get the likes of Newman and Miller and they'll take some stopping. This random off the cuff stuff is not working.
I'm not saying for one minute to go to dull 5 drives and a kick but mix the basics with the off the cuff
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| We can't do the basics because our forwards are nowhere near the level of physicality of Wigan or sts. Too many small forwards and our bigger forwards are flat track bullies. They collectively shrivel up when opponents get on top.
I worry about how conservative Smith seems to have got with selection as well. Mom on the wing screams fear to me, and has no doubt dented Roberts' confidence for zero benefit. As does dropping Ruan, who has more potential than any of our other back rowers.
Smith needs to show a bit more guts and flexibility IMO. Assuming we're a mile off winning anything this year, let's focus on the next generation. Could Sinfield have done worse than Frawley?
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1230.gif “You are playing a game of football this afternoon but more than that you are playing for England, and more even than that, you are playing for right versus wrong. You will win because you have to win. Don’t forget that message from home. England expects every one of you to do his duty.”:1230.gif |
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| Which games this year have we lost that we expected to win, which games have we won when we expected to lose?
Results seem to be at the level I expected, performance this week was a poor one which the coach acknowledged, but the other things he said about the rules and the refereeing were correct too.
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| Imagine being GH sat in the stands wondering how the team you’ve assembled with considerable dollar could be this bad. Apart from the intercept, we didn’t look like scoring once.
My main gripe about smiths style is it’s either ridiculously high risk that either looks brilliant or ends in a knock on, or it’s one out with players with absolutely zero aggression.
I’m sick of watching Bentley, he’s absolutely garbage, and why does Frawley have to try and throw every pass like he’s trying to launch it into space. And don’t get me started about the drop off plays, passing the pall on the inside so our centres and back towers run laterally across the line making them easy to tackle.
Ironically we’ll probably play better in better weather, but the GF is always in conditions similar to last night. No we’re out of the CC I don’t see our route to silverware this year.
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| We're stuck with him unfortunately
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