I especially like these few comments

Finished as a competitive entity..........then wins 2 super league titles.

Only got tp page 24 so far but delighted with my intelligent and reasoned contribution to a thread that should be an embarrassment for some posters. The above was from May this year. I see the cracks continue to be papered over but the trophies are not slipping down them.

As I said early on....



Certaion posters never learn. Not even from 2011 to 2012. Still one day Gotcha and Sal Paradise will be proven right. If only we'd listened and broken this team up well before the last two titles.

And Lawrie shouldn't be smug. He was joiningh the chorus of sack the coach in 2011.

Joining in the chorus? Is he one of these that goes to games just to sing songs?

Many of us had negative views of what the team/coach were producing at that time G and imo i stand by it at that time.
In fact our form this last month has once agaian proved that the team were capable of much much better than some of the drosss they were serving up even the players and staff themselves admit as much.
I'll never demand/expect to win a game a of RL but i do think even now we could have competed better during that form slump and the questions you yourself raised over selection ,squad use etc etc still remain and i for one hope they are addressed next year.

How about acheiving the goal he told you and I he wanted to acheive last November, greater consistency in the league season. I'll take that, not that I wouldn't take another year like this one. Do you remember or were you counting the cieling tiles whiulst he was speaking?

And for Juan Cornetto and Seth whilst the knee jerk sack the coach rhetoric is plain dumb the coaches tactics have been validly open to question this year. His use of substitutes being baffling. Feeling the need to explain it and the explanation made matters worse.

This forum is for discussion of all such matters, negative or positive. Contributors don't need to display their coaches badges to post an opinion. I've meet many people who hold copaching badges who are as clueless as the likes of Gotcha and Sal Paradise.

Seth and Juan should have applied for the cheerleaders but they will have missed the auditions now I fear. I've met Seth and he'd look good in hot poants. Don't know about Juan.

And for the record Soprano, the thread drift you started on pg 34 was the best part of the thread. I bet it was what attracted the new poster, Ian Scott.

Even McDermott said when being interviewed on Saturday night that they "were games when you couldn't tell what we trying to achieve". When a coach admits that then it's only natural for fans to be critical too throughout the season. And whilst he's got it right come playoffs I don't like to bury my head in the sand about some of the clangers he dropped during the season.....unused hookers on the bench against Wigan Away and Saints Home are still very poor decisions regardless of what happened Saturday night. For me the real annoyance of the season has been the poor use of the subs bench. Lunt, Clarkson and Griffin have all shown what they can do with more game time but too often this year were getting ridiculously short mins.

I'm also happy to praise him too though and have said a couple times over the last few months that his out-of-left-field selection of Bailey at Loose Forward has been great.

2 SL titles out of 2 is consistent enough for me

The thread drift was the highlight of southstander this season

thanks for pointing that out G!
you have to give credit to BM although some of the things he does still leave me baffled.
i stand by what i said though. there was cracks and the regular season this year was just as shocking. even BM said he watched some games and struggled to see what we were doing.
i'll be honest. i have to give the coach fantastic praise for winning back to back titles but i'm fooked if i know how he does it with lack of rotation, flogging the older players and a real lack of nous at times.
i think some times people like tony smith can over coach. BM seems to have the same ability as say bluey and john kear for getting players up for big games and i think while he puts basic plans into place he is lucky to have a special group of players to implement them.

I've just read page 34 and 35.

I hope those responsible are thoroughly ashamed. Jokes about the sin that is onanism are surely not appropriate for an age unrestricted website?

I thought the highlight of SouthStander this year was the Hull fan who claimed he and 3 mates were attacked by 60 Leeds fans at Don Valley Stadium 15 years ago???

And I don't know why anybody is praising McDermott or Sinfield for........it was the drum that won it for us!

The Drummer boy won it for us

Did anyone else notice that BMcD's curious bench policy and bizarre player positioning seemed to stop once we got into the play-off's and there was a much more 'traditional' feel about everything?

Tyke's's/Whinos No. 1 Fan's meltdown is close but I think the Hull fan wins it for persistence. Our resident unmusical Rah Rah unwound quite quickly whilst the true story of the poor battered Humbersider needed a bit more teasing out. Good times