Exactly my view. I want Smith to sort the obvious deficiencies. Other clubs manage to have a decent backline within the same salary cap.

There is a point though where, surely, if winning the GF is the club's objective that we need to change something if we continually fail to do so. I merely suggested perhaps the end of this season is the time. Seems to me opinion is split and bizarrely some are quite happy for the situation to continue ad mortem.

Is this no exactly what TS did in the match against Brisbane? Or at Wembley against Huddersfield or Leeds (twice)?

The main problem seems to be that Cas did to us what we did to Brisbane the week before, fast out of the blocks & took them apart in the first half.

I think it's the three GF losses which spring to mind.

Daryl Powell hasn't been in a Grand Final, he's had two Challenge Cup finals and lost both.

If he had got Castleford to three Grand Finals and lost them all would that make him a less attractive option for us compared to never having been there.

Why has this debate conflated the issue of "When is Smiths time up" and the relative merits of Daryl Powell?

Agreed, this (as I see it) is not a discussion for winding up the tenure of TS but one aimed at resolving the obvious deficiencies in the current squad and in particular the starting 17.

Maybe Mr Smith thought the better recruitment option for this season would be to load up with mobile young forwards who could interchange into playing centre if necessary. Maybe his preferred option when his players are fit will be a choice between Ratchford & Currie among his starting threequarters ,& isn't Matty Blyth also a centre cum second row.
Either way,i'm sure Tony is more than pleased for the advice offered on this forum.

Loading up with young forwards who drop into the centre position is a wonderful idea, but not dropping out of form players is the exact opposite and that the crux of the debate, I look forward to watching Dominic and Andre racing through the line and putting their respective winger in for the tries.

Except Gidley routinely chooses the wrong option, which was a criticism of him throughout his NRL career and hasn't changed in SL... so no it is nothing to do with luck when he did the same thing again in the grand final.

Warrington failing to win a grand final hasn't been because of bad luck, it has been down to under performing/poor player selection... which is down to the coach.

But as people have already said, a lot of fans are more than happy with finishing high up in the league and making the odd final appearence.

He'll sure be happier with that than the league position he finds himself in.

Seriously if Matty Blythe becomes a 3/4 option then it's all gone to pot.

Matty Blythe is a slower version of Rhys Evans, they don't have half a rugby brain between them.

Gordon Bennett - the guy hasn't even played for us since he returned and he's getting stick.

That's forums I suppose.....

I found myself at Rochdale v Halifax on Sunday afternoon; Blythe had an absolute shocker. Last year, Bradford fans had very few good words to say about him. So unless you are aware of something which I am missing, forgive me for struggling to understand where or how he will fit into a squad which has to be winning Super League this year!

At the time of his signing my immediate assumption was that he had been signed to form part of the reserve squad. By all accounts he is a good trainer and has a good attitude, the right sort of guy we need in that set up.