For crying out loud, are people genuinely this thick?

Wire finish 2nd in the league, make it to the grand final, are comfortably winning for 40 minutes, when 2 massive injuries destroy our side, we have our half back playing full back and a forward at centre and it's Tony Smith's fault we lost?

*don't feed the troll, don't feed the troll, don't feed the troll...*

W I T B

I think he implies smiths era.

I do however hold smith more accountable than just circumstance for the gf loss.

But he is still a great coach.

Well if Smith's accountable, let's actually have what he's accountable for.

3 CC wins.
Taking Wire from a downward spiral to consistently top of the table.
Bringing on our best young players.
Overseeing a successful academy development.
Retaining several of our best players when it looked like they'd be off.
Turning Wire into a force in SL.


Not winning the GF.

I can see now why you'd want rid... some people just don't know how good they've got it.

W I T B.

I'm sorry I didn't make my last posts clear enough.

You seem to think that im now implying that Smith had accountability for a having a bad era.

I haven't said that, I said he's a great coach.

I was simply referring only to the GF.

I only said that I believe him to be more accountable for the loss than just pure circumstance!

There were decisions he made that directly could have altered the course of the game.

He imo chose poorly, it doesn't make him a bad coach.

ie,
Hodgson drops a ball, does it make him a bad fb?
Briers punches Ablett, does it make him a bad hb?

I can't make my post any simpler than that.

Duckie. I think WITB might be having more of a go at the Leeds Troll than at you. By the way, I think you might be mistaken about Shaun Edwards. i seem to remember we went for him after DVDV left and he turned us down. We then went for Steve Anderson instead!

thanks Tees.
For sure, we did approach, he was at wasps back then.

And in my defence....that was still before we approached Cullen!!

I disagree fella , great players are far harder to replace than coaches , as Leeds will find out with Sinfield , Peacock , Burrow etc...

Replacing Smith was pretty seamless to be fair .

Backtracktastic.

Tony Smith will never be fired - However, I think he is a complex enough character that when he goes it will be a bolt out of the blue and might even be sooner than most would suspect, or like.

He seems to me like somebody who is constantly analysing his, and the club's, situation - I would reckon at the moment, the question of whether he has took Wire as far as he can, as probably crossed his mind a few times, its bound to have.

I certainly don't want TS to leave just yet, but I'd hate for him to stay too long and ruin his legacy in a Paul Cullen sort of way, and I reckon Tony Smith might be thinking similar.

If Smith has had the 'benefit' of reading your posts then he will definitely "learnt" a great deal and there'll be no stopping us next seasonn

If I recall correctly Edwards was in the frame for us when Anderson got the jo. Allegedly using interest from us to get a better Union job.