so would you have given Steve Anderson (35.2% over 34 games) and David plange (25% over 16 games) more time???
the latter putting us in a relegation dog fight after his predecessor bought a crap atmosphere into the club.
Paul Cullen secured the safety with 6 games by winning 2 of them.

change is needed now to steady the ship because, at present. I don't know where our next win is coming from

I was being facetious. I was using the same barometer some others are using to judge Powell - just over half a season.

Of course we didn't need upheaval - we've been doing really well over the past 6/7 odd years.

He shouldn’t be needing to learn to help us avoid relegation!!! We cannot get absolute basics right. This is just a bad fit like Damned United and we need to hurry up and accept it.

Difference is, Powell has a track record of improving sides and playing attractive rugby over 20 odd years.

It’s well over half a season and he knew he was coming half a season before that. I could give you tens of examples of recent SL coaches turning around teams in half the time and you know that.

In the Catalan game we won for a start, and played some better rugby than previous games - that pretty much constitutes shoots - ie signs of things getting better.

Have any of them made the massive changes we've made?

So you believe that coaches and anybody else for that matter don't make mistakes? Especially in a new situation where he's tasked with making a clear out. Do you think this was all under Powell's volition, and that the board weren't party to this cultural change? I think you'll find many fans were clamouring for big changes too.

Facetious though it may be, Smith’s team won as many games as we have to date before the end of April. Not including cup.

Tony Smith has a track record of steadying the ship. bringing a challenge cup home to Warrington in 4 months. play attractive rugby. bring in 3 challenge cups. 3 grand final appearances and 2 league leaders shields. then come back after falling out of love with the game. and take a 10th place team to within 80 mins of a grand final.

Id of accepted playoffs at the beginning of the year as i understood it was a transition year. but not what is being served up at this moment.

something needs to be done before its too late.

You make my argument for me. Massive change WASNT needed. Yes we got knocked out of the play offs etc etc but we were qualifying for them consistently and making finals.

Madness to think such a radical overhaul was needed for a team in touching distance in modern RL. Look at Wigan this year, a bit of good man management and careful tweaks and it’s a completely different story.

We’ve gone from nearly men to soon to be relegated.