we lost trophies in 05 because smith floggedthd players every day with no days off and no player rotation. come play off time they were shot. that's why the conditioner walked. I was told that by andrew dunneman. he couldn't understand why he did what he did, given his rotation the year before

That was Smith exerting his power/control, players had to ask his permission if they could take their wives out for dinner!! That blew up in his face when Danny Ward went off the rails and he selected Senior in the cup final. 2006 was the players showing him who had control and that didn't improve until he was on his way in 2007.

That was smith playing psychological mind games with the players to see how tough they were, and how far they could be pushed physically before they'd crack. Some of the tears in the 2005 grand final weren't of sadness, they were of relief.

Once at a function a players bowtie was slightly wonky and smith started sweating profusely, incandescent with rage.

Lucky we wasn't clinical enough on your line, not a single forward from segs all night! Amazing!

You were lucky to even be in the game thanks to that bald headed pillock. And I don't mean Carl Ablett.

Galloway, or Tilse, or given his new haircut, Moon?

Was the penalty count 5-13?

Rovers had enough good chances to win that game.dont think Bentham favored either side with any consistency seemed to just make it up as he went along. For what it's worth both teams worked hard but was a lot of ball to ground/touch.walker allgood Larroyer all dropped clangers but Kelly was dire all night.all that mattered was the 2 pts and leeds found a way to win again .just out of interest when do you guys play hudds and is it home or away?think the way it looks at mo we will play our last mini league game versus them and that will decide 3rd/4th

Bentham was rubbish throughout. It wasn't by any stretch of the imagination an ill disciplined game yet he seemed to be determined to turn it into one.

Gelling straight back in from injury for Wigan and Gildart dropped.....hmmm.

Oooohh were we?

That went well ..... how do you say hmmm

it was a turgid, poor quality game that showed why we finished bottom 4. a lot of changes needed if we are to improve next season

All we need to do is avoid the floods, SPOTY etc and it will all be OK