Down the Batley Frontier - happy days

Oh god, the big F

Nightclub of the year!


1982

Read an interesting article where George Williams said Burgess is like one of the lads who the players respect a lot who is there to put an arm around the players and if the players say they are lagged after a hard/physical game he is quite happy to cancel training and let them recover.
The brains behind the moves and structure is down to the other coaches at the club.
Imagine if news got out that Rohan Smith had that philosophy there would be an uproar.
Not that I was a fan of Smith just trying to justify Burgess`s coaching methods seem a bit soft.

Like everything balance is important and how you 'execute' that is key. Work your nuts off in practice and front load their energy (as they say now) in games and you can allow that extra space to recharge. I bet burgess has a good balance with the graft he expects too and holds the players to account.

And how is holding to account and front loading energy working out for us in the run in this season folks?

I’d say more honestly than the vibes rugby BS we were playing before.

Trust his the squad is pretty awful, recruitment and retention has been shocking for years, and our choices in coaches have been really poor going back to anyone since BMD.

BA, with the right squad would win SL easily, problem is he has a very poor squad right now.

Was actually working pretty well for 20 mins until Lisone came up with first of several match turning errors right in front of their posts. Don't know if you are trying to suggest we'd have done better under Smith. My view us that we would have lost that game by 30 under Rohan.

at least. smith has ruined us. set us back massively with his stupid style of play

Jim let it go, you're suggesting that Arthur can come in and within a few weeks reverse the monumental mess Smith has left, you've not demonstrated much critical thinking there It's heading very slowly in the right direction ie in the complete opposite direction to RS.

He’s cost us 2 years of more knot untying. GH has made some poor decision over the last 10 years, employing Smith is right up there with the worst of them.

yep

How do you account for Bentley, Lisone and others making stupid mistakes - which is what actually cost us the game today, like it has many times this season?

Is this your hated style of play still? That makes Bentley rush the line, take someone obviously high, give a penalty away we couldn't afford and cost us a body for a critical 10 minutes?

Sorry but it's just too easy an explanation. I've said all season that individual players aren't good enough and it's my hill to die on.

Our recruitment has been mostly terrible for about 10 years mate, I hate to break it to you again - at the risk of being called repetitive.