I think what Fallon was trying to get at is if you were a department head (for example) and were to massively under perform against your expected KPI's then it should be you held responsible for your departments performance and not to criticise the people under you.

If you ran a large company like that you'd have a load of untouchable managers and a massive turnover of ground level staff. You'd also go out of business very quickly.

Bloke turned up today to replace my front door.

He was wearing a Wigan shirt.

I said [i"Excellent. I wanted a new door that's secure. If you'd turned up in a Rhinos shirt, I'd have realised right away that I was getting a turnstile instead"[/i.

hopefully the veiled threat here is his backing that players need to up their attitude and performance.
If not it backs Mcdermotts licence to use the fringe players /youngsters. if these show they can realise their potential then the senior players will fall down the pecking order and will be fringe players /paid off /let go for next season.

All this theory is based on the assumption that Mcdermott will blood the promising young players towards the end of the season if the senior players don't buck up over the next 2/3 games. This gives McDermott the backing h needs, if he doesn't use the opportunity then I think GH will turn his comments on their head and remove some of the blame fro the players to the coach.

either way there will probably be player casualties at the end of the season and possibly coaching casualties.

it's a good job he wasn't wearing a St helens shirt then.
Does the door come with a guarantee that it will last during the tougher autumn rather than just look good during the pleasanter summer months?

I came into the office today with some pads and made the girls do tackling drills in their underwear. I can't think of a more constructive use of my time.

I have my own reserved spot these days at the Employment Tribunal.

I see what you're saying, but I'm generally judged by my department's performance at the end of a reporting period, not the end of every week or month. I appreciate that is different in some jobs. McDermott ended the last reporting period with a big shiny trophy. So if he had my job, he'd have kept it. I guess he might not have remained in charge in some environments.

And how do you know what his KPIs are?

Hope you didn't pay too much for your door, or you'll have to sell your house and move in as someone's tenant.

I don't - I was just expanding on an analogy. It wasn't a literal comparison.

One question. If GH is actually right and we do need a "major overhaul" for next season, where are we going to find the players at this stage of the current season? All the OoC ones worth having will either be kept by their current club, or go to the highest bidder if they leave their current club, and the overseas network is effectively cut off now due to SC increase and FX rate.

It's been a long time since we spent real money not pocket money in the transfer market.

If the answer GH is planning is to utilise the juniors and recall loan players, then why not do it now? Looks to me like he is actually setting BMD up, not helping him...


On an unrelated note, see that not one of our overseas players has made the cut for the Exiles squad, another ringing endorsement of our current overseas batch.

Uurggh I must have been talking to Keith Swiftcorn too long, all this negativity is getting me down....

GH is playing mindgames with the squad, the only serious way to kick a few up the is to drop them from the team.

If GH is being real, it's a difficult one. It's a real difficult one. This is not a black and white issue.

Let's say this season doesn't improve from it's current state and tails off, we make no major finals, play poorly and go out swiftly from the playoffs.

This would surely prompt the overhaul gh speaks of, but who?

And who would the replacements be?

For the last 8 years we've had so much stability, with rarely more then 1/2 changes to the likely first choice 17 each season and a change of coach every few years.

The next off season, if nothing else potentially promises to be extremly interesting and who knows, a a few big changes may just be what we need to get back in the top 2.

I hope that the current under performing first teamers are looking more over their shoulders for some of their possible replacements than at other players from outside our squad

Ward and Singleton are ready for first team action each week without a doubt and there's also quite a few more that arn't that far off stepping up given the chance