I've always been a huge fan of Ben, and still am - he remains our most naturally gifted player but his performances are symptomatic of what is going wrong : I thought he would blossom under Powell, but he looks ineffective, shackled and frustrated.

He said it "we're training well" and in a good place

Delusional from Powell in that post match interview

We trained well.

Powell sounds delusional, even jenna is seeing its all gone to pot and trying to get an acknowledgement. Seems everyone but Powell can see we are terrible.

I am afraid he did. I wonder if that "meet me for a pint" meeting is back on?

It will take more than a pint.

BREAKING NEWS: Mikaele as just hijacked the plane and turned around.

We’re training pretty well but that’s not converted tonight to a performance.

"I thought Leeming was outstanding and caused us a whole heap of trouble. We just didn’t handle it well at all.

Reading this reminds me of Mike Basset England Manager….3 cheers for Leeming

Currie has never been a dominant defender. Don’t see him being much different than before. He’s brilliant when we are on the front foot.

Amazed there’s no criticism of Ratchford and his continual selection at half back. Obviously far from our biggest issue!

That really was painfully dreadful.

Literally awful. Williams is awful, Holmes is awful, Widdop after a master class last week is awful this week. Matty Davis shouldn't be in the team, Philbin shouldn't be in the team.
Cooper Did what Cooper does and give 100% effort. Just literally scratching my head. I'm still backing Powell, but 1st year as a coach isn't the be all end all as a coach. But this from the players is shocking.
I genuinely think this extra time off the players have had over the past 2 weeks shouldn't have happened. Oli Holmes for 1 went camping in Scotland for 6 Days, then came back and went to the Weekender for 2 days. So what had 4 days of Training and getting prepared. I understand players do need time off to refresh their bodies etc but we got knocked out the challenge cup straight away so have had 2 fortnight breaks now and we're only on round 14.
For me we should be doing bonding sessions in this time like bootcamp assault courses etc or days out together (not getting hammered).
To just give the players 10 days off from each other in 14 days i think is rediculous.
We DO have the players to be a force this year, we showed that at saints. Just utterly bizzarre.
And no offense but people saying Powell is deluded with his comments are deluded themselves. What do you want him to do, say the team is poop and all the players are garbage live on Sky. Of course he's not going to do that.

Spot on, on your first paragraph

However, on your last, I expect Powell to "front up" to the interviewer, and admit to our shortcomings, which are apparent to anyone who's watched competitive sport, WITHOUT A SMIRK ON HIS FACE. That really did make my pooh itch.
After all, didn't he recently "hang out to dry" one of our youngsters in a press conference?

Even Whizzy Rascal was underwhelming tonight.

I expect him to be angry, you don't have to say we're in a good place, it's disrespectful to expect the fans to swallow such a line. I want to hear that there are going to be changes, a serious look at what the hell is going wrong, Powell gives the impression that thinks are great and things just need tweeking and every week the opposition had a really great game (strange they all do when playing us) rather than there are fundamental problems. That's why some of us think he sounds delusional. As it happens I've had his back , the culture of the club does need changing and backed him to change whatever players he thinks need to go but I must admit with after game interviews like that I'm losing a bit of faith in him.

Can see the club giving a 1000 dads and lads tickets out for next home game, can’t see many outside of current season ticket holders wanting to go. Fear next game will be attended by a challenge cup type attendance.