Absolutley agree. Its what Smith did. Gleeson gone and he threatened Briers with Barrow on loan....

The recent pathetic performances don't happen with a good group. Our youngsters showed that the other year against Salford.

No probably about it. He makes 9.3m average gain, 2nd only to Conor Wrench.

Philbin makes a poor 6.5 and J Clark < 6.0.

Cooper has decent prop figures with 8.3

Stats may suggest that Philbin was poor this afternoon but I don't think he was. He still needs to be better but he clearly tried to run better lines and ran hard IMO. Cooper is still our best, bullock made 1 bad PTB error but was good otherwise, mulhern ran hard and was solid.

Stats probably not updated as yet to take account of todays game.

I've heard the same rumours, from a connected source.

Day 1 at the "players' bonding session" in York
"Is there anything you want to get off your chests?"
"No"

Day 2
Ditto

Next time of asking
"Yes. Powell is training us too hard. It was not like this under Steve"

I'm a lover of many sports and I don't think I've ever known a set of fans to be so pro coach/manager after a bad run of form.

But I agree with it. I'd much rather get rid of the dissidents than get rid of Powell. They've had it far too easy for too long.

The players are dumb at times. Just watching the last try and the set restart on tackle 5. FFS.

My suspicions lie with the players that have played under Smith, Price and Powell. Getting the first sacked, embarrassing the second, and frustrating the third.

No apologies needed. I post what I hear and be dammed. Tbh, I wish I was wrong.

Despite being done at the death, I thought that was one of our better performances this season. We carried the ball and defended with more vigour, but still seem to back off a bit too much when defending our flanks. Peter Mata'utia made good yards by running forwards rather than sideways, but I only saw him pass once during the game, with around 1 minute left. We need to bring some attacking threat to our right edge, otherwise were too easy to defend against as defences know where we'll be attacking.