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| Going back over the last few posts.
I think sally cinnamon nails it, with his 4 bullet points.
Barba, despite him looking like a good/great player, looks like Sandow Mk II. There'll be tears before bedtime. Mark my words.
Myler. Still missed by me. Not the greatest player by any means, but has that "X-factor" about him, in the same way Maguire and Long did.
Dwyer, he's OK. Shows potential, but I'm not losing sleep over his leaving.
Back on thread. There seems to have been a malaise about our club, since our last Wembley win. Get to the top table, but seem to be complacent, ever since. Gatcliffe left. Just happy to be chugging along with Leeds, Saints and Wigan, but not moving on to the next level.
Spending big transfer fees on Brown, Lineham and the other fella from Hull (genuinely forgotten his name) was to me, an ego trip...... simply because we could. Lineham's try scoring return aside, I'm still shaking my head over all 3 of them.
Poor recruitment / retention of players. Buying jack of all trades players. Smith staying those couple of seasons too long, AND bringing his mate Agar in. The fall out with senior pro's and the fitness coach from a few years back. Getting an ex RL pro to go and sit a few business exams at the local tech college, stick a tie on him, and class him as your COO, shouts smalltime, to me.
Something's not right. If we don't fix it, we'll be coasting back to mid table mediocrity, where we were 20 years ago.
I'm not TOO pessimistic, though. Anything is possible in SL, now. We've the poorest standard competition since it's inception. Anyone can beat anyone. Yes, that makes for sustained interest, but it's only because of lack of quality. It's like having a bad weight division in boxing. Bang average world title fights, but having the same boxers keeping hold of their belts.
As JJ Burnelll once sung.....Something Better Change
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| Is it just me or does our attacking line still not have enough depth to it? Where are the ball receivers running from deep crossing behind dummy runners? We just shift it from side to side then someone tries to beat a defender on his own and goes down.
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| Quote: wire-flyer "Is it just me or does our attacking line still not have enough depth to it? Where are the ball receivers running from deep crossing behind dummy runners? We just shift it from side to side then someone tries to beat a defender on his own and goes down.'"
It's really basic stuff. There are no dummy runners running lines to cause doubt in the defence. It's as predictable as night follows day how our attack pans out. Trundling drives with no backing up as we never pass. Scoot from dummy half which looks dangerous but no-one backing up. Ball ships one edge on play 4. Back to the other edge on 5 (if we don't knock on/ forward pass), then a cross field kick into the dead ball area which sadly doesn't work any more without Briers' accuracy and Monaghans catching. Rinse and repeat.
Wilkin on the radio said that last week about us that we were far too easy to predict, even if we executed well, throughout 2017.
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Quote: rubber duckie "Bottom of the league.
Coach with a minus 200% win/loss ratio.'"
Its a 0% Win/Loss percentage or a 0:2 win/loss ratio.
But there is time yet. I was encouraged by this article in the WG, Jack reckons we are not far off and in a month we will be firing on all cylinders. Oh yea of little faith.
www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/spo ... e_at_Wire/
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Quote: rubber duckie "Bottom of the league.
Coach with a minus 200% win/loss ratio.'"
Its a 0% Win/Loss percentage or a 0:2 win/loss ratio.
But there is time yet. I was encouraged by this article in the WG, Jack reckons we are not far off and in a month we will be firing on all cylinders. Oh yea of little faith.
www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/spo ... e_at_Wire/
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| Quote: Wires71 "Its a 0% Win/Loss percentage or a 0:2 win/loss ratio.
But there is time yet. I was encouraged by this article in the WG, Jack reckons we are not far off and in a month we will be firing on all cylinders. Oh yea of little faith.
You seen to be missing the point of the thread.
I'm aware of the maths too, it's just a yoke!
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| I knew they all should have had 10 days in Tenerife preseason!!
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