Tony Smith is akin to Ian Millward.
They can steer a ship but cannot build one.

Time to go, bring in Shaun Edwards.

Smith's smirking throughout the whole interview was cringe inducing.

Oh. Speaking of which. Can we PLEASE stop this "high fiving" of players, when they mess up. Some were almost laughing when they were "sympathising" with each other.

Your recruitment and retention has been terrible. Surely you must be well below the saalry cap with the squad you have?

We 'famously' play off the cuff rugby..........and it doesn't work without a player of exceptional talent & vision like Briers. He quit years ago and Smith has no other ideas.

Smith is not a coach and neither is Agar. All smith does is let the players play to their skills, it's just that none of them seem to have any!! Sorry Tony, but time is up.

its like watching a sad old punch drunk boxer have one last shot at the moment. Nothing in attack...I mean nothing...no options..no effort to make dummy runs, terrible kicking game (Rocky turner would do a job in this team) and the defence is none existent, soft. Something is fundamentally wrong with this team at the moment...I can only think Smith has lost the dressing room because they are not bending their backs and trying.

I've said before we've lost Solamona King Anderson Morley Carvell Cooper Hodgson Briers MMonaghan (even Wood was our top metre maker when all these were playing well for us) Higham...Grix is forever injured, Harrison is not the same as he used to be and Weetwood and JMonaghan are shadows of their former selves.

And we've only brought in Hill Ratchford and Clark at the level of those players (two of which were very poor tonight), a load of kids who are still learning the game (some of which will become good players for us, some of which will not see many more years with us because they aren't good enough), and some very poor players brought in as well.

That turnaround in quality is huge!

Is that because the money was put in for us from 2008 onwards to win CCs LLSs GFs and WCCs but we underachieved and the money isn't there for another drive at those four trophies again? Is it just poor recruitment? Or is what we're looking at now poor coaching? Are the young lads under performing and should be doing more despite their age?

I don't know where to start?!

Genuine question. Does Briers spend as much time on the pitch every week as he did tonight? I thought he had come out of retirement

I think it's fair to say that Chris Chester has got just the right mix of players to be effective & their main advantages tonight were a desire to win & more skill in key positions. As for us ,is there any camaraderie in the camp any more ? We used to enter & leave the field as a group but all that is history now. I find it hard to see where our next win will come from especially with confidence at rock bottom & especially when it seems that 11 other teams have bought into the "every second counts" slogan more than the Wire.

Something is seriously wrong at the club. Players are just not interested. The team at Bewsey School had more pride. Without doubt this team will be competing for the relegation play offs because after tonight's performance they are probably the worst team in the Super League on a par with Wakefield

Agree about performance tonight no structure,energy,or ideas.Who was behind team who showed all that Willie Poching! coincidence?

Briers has been our best half back this season.

May as well try and scrape in to the eight and put the rest of our eggs in the Challenge Cup basket.

Not a motivated team. Coming off the defensive line in ones and twos, not as a unit as they did against Leeds. No confidence in themselves or each other in attack or defence. Clark will do a Shenton after his move to Saints - struggle - and the move back to Cas to be a big fish in a small pond. New assistant coach, Agar, and a new fitness coach, and we look exhausted.
Wholesale changes needed, especially in the coaching and management team. Anybody got Daryl Powell's number? I need directions to Featherstone et al for the rest of the season.

I think ratchford has been very poorly managed by Smith. He doesn't want to play FB... No chance of international footy behind hardaker and Tomkins.. Smith is refusing to bend to the players demands. So now we have an unhappy player who wants out... He almost let sio in for that first try last night. Worst attempt at a tackle I've ever seen. He just didn't fancy it and threw the towel in.