Completely spot on.

By my reckoning we've dropped 12 league points (against Cas twice, Wakey away, Celtic, Salford and HKR) and been knocked out of the cup in games that we looked to be more than capable of winning, that we were winning and that we should have won.

Those defeats have ruined our season. There have been just too many of those types of performance.

Its seems to me to be acadmic to argue whether the problems are down to the players or the coach. The problem is that the coach has recruited far too many inconsistent players.

After the Wigan defeat I expressed my opinion that it was too early to sack the coach and that we should wait until July to see how the season progresses. I really cannot see us progressing under the current coach. We need a change.

Great, I'm now banned from my local Doctors due to reading that when waiting for my appointment - I read it with orange juice in my mouth when sat next to a really old lady, she wasn't too pleased with getting Orange Juice on her face.

Instead of looking at the 12 points we've dropped you should also consider the 4 we got that our form suggested was beyond us i.e. Saints and Leeds.

But what is this "change of fortunes" of which ye speak? Bearing in mind the form to which I drew attention?

More a case of emperor's new clothes, to my eyes.

They were below us before changing coach, now they are above us. Simples.

But you were, you said I was making excuses, which is just wrong.

I don't do much personal insult except where merited and none was intended but if you want to perceive invented "veiled" insults there's not much I can do about that.

As for "self-righteousness" - who was it who just said "largely because I'm not very interested in what you think",that what I thought was a detailed thoughtful response was just "full of tortured logic, veiled personal insult, and willful misinterpretation"? It's not. It's what I think. And it's very self-righteous of you to believe you can diss the whole argument by an ad hominem response.

Are you just one of those people who can't abide someone having a different viewpoint? Or is it that you don't want to face the possibility that I have a point?

I think even you would have to agree that Warrington's form has improved no end under their new coach. With the same players. So the new coach has improved the team. How els can it be explained?

Yes they are still not world beaters and are not challenging for top spot, but even if we won all our remaining fixtures, neither would we be.

The 1982 Aussies couldn't score if you had the ball, could they

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Just to clarify things, I also brought up the wire example, in another thread, in responce to a point about if a new coach could change the fortunes of the same bunch of underperforming players. I feel the Wire example is a valid one;

Warrington for the first month of the season played 4 lost 4. Looked shambolic at times but decent in spells, and were putting in performances that you would not have expected looking at thier playing roster pre season. Just like us. They then changed coach to Tony Smith and since that point they have a 68% win ratio (pld 19 won 13, inc CC) which is almost identical to Huddersfields win ratio in third place (69% inc CC) Our current win ratio is 32% BTW. So although thier league placing is not too much distant to ours the form is vastly superior and is that of a top 4 side not a bottom four side.

So there is a very good argument IMHO that if Tony Smith had been in charge from day one and repeated the ratio all season Wire [icould [/ibe 3rd/4th as well as in the cup semi. That is a highly significant turnaround of performance from the same squad (one player exchage Gleeson for Mathers excepted) achieved on the face of it purely and simply by changing coach....nothing else changed as far as I am aware but I'd be happy to hear other reasons for the turnaround.

Im not saying we could have/should have had the same change or that the results would have followed similar patterns, but merely pointing out that you cannot say a change a coach [iwould not [/ihave any effect, as there is clear evidnece from within this season from wire that change [ican [/i and has had a positive impact. I'd also suggest that if Smith guides the club to the Cup Final that would pay back any cost involved in the coaching changes, and would wire fans agree the change in coach prompted the turnaround in performance? I dont know, but I'd guess yes.

Not saying its the answer for every club, or us, but it can clearly work IMO and should never be ruled out just on principle.

"Even I"? I hardly ever discuss Warrington - how come I've got form? Which was his point.

I'm sending you a new sarcasm detector as yours appears to be broken.

That sums up all the points I wanted to make but much better! Well done.