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Quote: bewareshadows "I take it they are not pally with Wellens, given that you have let him have it this weekend.
If I don't think someone has played well I'll say that, no matter if I'm his mate or not.

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Quote: The Chair Maker "Alternatively we could move back to the 1st past the post system, whereby 6 games into the season, most teams have nothing left to play for, as having lost 3 or more games they are completely out of the running for being champions. No point therefore watching the rest of the games as they then become meaningless friendlies in the literal sense.
Of course its all fine and dandy for fans of the two or three big clubs who can retain interest till near the end of the season when one team breaks clear with four or five games left, and makes the final few games of the season for all sides into meaningless friendlies.

No wonder RL gates were far smaller under the 1st past the post system. Buying a season ticket was a complete waste of time, much better to pay on the day, and go the early games see if your team had a chance of doing anything, then sack it off for the season once you knew there was nothing left to play for.'"


Congratulations on imposing a false - and completely ridiculous - dilemma. It's like responding to someone critical of democratic government today with the argument that [i"alternatively we could move back to the days of a despotic monarch whose word is law"[/i. Just because fans are unsatisfied by the way early matches are deemed to be non-essential by coaches (a perfectly reasonable complaint, IMO) this does not automatically mean they want to see a return to a league format, winter rugby, cloth caps and such.

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Quote: St pete "If I don't think someone has played well I'll say that, no matter if I'm his mate or not.'"



I was curious, though you might say that.

I'm still not sure on Simmons as I don't know how much of this is down to back loading the season and how much is Saints playing below the standard we expect.

Alot of people where expecting Catalan to match us, even sky went 50/50 on who they tipped. So the defeat was not a shocking defeat, just a shocking last 30. Maybe another way to look at it though was it was a shocking opening 50 to nullify Catalan.

I'm not trying excuse the defense, it was bad, but if you had given the scoreline without seeing the game, it would not have shocked most RL fans. So I guess neither coach will be happy, for shipping in so many points and looking so stagnent and unable to control the game for key periods.

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Quote: St pete "From what I hear, he's not even got plan A.'"

What a load of total bollox. Sometimes you do talk absolute drivvel! You're even worse than me for it.

I can just see the coach of any club admitting on TV to any plan whatsoever, except to a general 'game plan' statement. I'm sure he wants Brown to know what he has up his sleeve for the Hudds match for instance.

Incidentally, his game plan was working fine for 60 minutes on Friday. Pity the players chose to go their own way after that. If we'd stuck to the plan we might well have won. Ditto for Hull KR.

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Quote: SaintsFan "What a load of total bollox. Sometimes you do talk absolute drivvel! You're even worse than me for it.

I can just see the coach of any club admitting on TV to any plan whatsoever, except to a general 'game plan' statement. I'm sure he wants Brown to know what he has up his sleeve for the Hudds match for instance.

Incidentally, his game plan was working fine for 60 minutes on Friday. Pity the players chose to go their own way after that. If we'd stuck to the plan we might well have won. Ditto for Hull KR.'"


I'm sure our players would!!

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Quote: Benidorm John "I'm sure our players would!!'"

Oh, they will know. Whether they can be bothered sticking to it for the full 80 is another matter. Hopefully they will have been embarrassed enough by their performance on Friday to realise that sticking to the plan is actually a good idea. When they did so last season we got good results.

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Quote: Mugwump "Congratulations on imposing a false - and completely ridiculous - dilemma. It's like responding to someone critical of democratic government today with the argument that [i"alternatively we could move back to the days of a despotic monarch whose word is law"[/i. Just because fans are unsatisfied by the way early matches are deemed to be non-essential by coaches (a perfectly reasonable complaint, IMO) this does not automatically mean they want to see a return to a league format, winter rugby, cloth caps and such.'"


Most people arguing against the play off system do though...

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Quote: Benidorm John "I'm sure our players would!!'"


Then they should listen to him in training, rather than his press conferences.

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Quote: Billinge_Lump "Then they should listen to him in training, rather than his press conferences.'"


I don't think does much in training either. KP does most of the training using Simmons odd methods.

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Quote: SaintsFan "Oh, they will know. Whether they can be bothered sticking to it for the full 80 is another matter. Hopefully they will have been embarrassed enough by their performance on Friday to realise that sticking to the plan is actually a good idea. When they did so last season we got good results.'"


Now, please tell me again what happened at HKR and how we learned/improved from it.

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Quote: St pete "I don't think does much in training either. KP does most of the training using Simmons odd methods.'"


What exactly does Simmons do on a day to day basis then?

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Quote: Carlos Alberto "What exactly does Simmons do on a day to day basis then?'"



Goes on twitter @roycesimmons

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Quote: Carlos Alberto "What exactly does Simmons do on a day to day basis then?'"

My guess is he sits by the Billabong dreaming of "Waltzing Matilda" eusa_angel.gif

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Quote: Benidorm John "Now, please tell me again what happened at HKR and how we learned/improved from it.'"

Well, at HKR we played very well for 20 minutes then decided we couldn't be ahsed defending for 60 minutes. On Friday we played very well for 60 minutes then decided we couldn't be ahsed defending for 20 minutes. Improvement = 40 minutes. Lesson learned = a match lasts longer than 20 minutes.

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Quote: Benidorm John "My guess is he sits by the Billabong dreaming of "Waltzing Matilda" Plays with witches hats and eats a lot of sausages.

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