I remember when teams came to wilder spool in the eighties when I started to watch the wire teams who came here fought hammer and nail to get a result even if they won they knew they were in a hostile environment lets get back to blood sweat and tears fight for every tackle and drive

We can't. the slightest bit of aggression is met with a 5 game ban from the RFL and Stuart Cummings/Eddie Hemmings banging on for the rest of the match about how someone could have died.

Middle aged mums who believe that the most important thing is as long as everyone has fun.

I blame participation medals handed out at sports days.

What i would like to see is if we lose the ball go in hard to get it back,but no wonder we are getting battered when respecting possession & doing the basics are not in our coaching manual. There was a time when we used to blow teams away,but over the last few seasons that has slowly disappeared until we are now blown away ourselves & we are lacking in ideas all across the board.

And what in the name of the 86 front row, is all this high fiving and back slapping when one of your teammates drops another clanger? Load of nonsense.

Your in a fight for your livelihoods, your getting pummelled in defence, you get a penalty and a breather and some idiot has just failed to play the ball properly on the first tackle and handed posession and momentum back. Cue lots of middle management awayday team building nonsense, no blame culture blah blah blah and lets all have a jolly old pat on the back.

Utter cobblers.

The "House of Pain" tag is still a valid one, but it's pain for home fans now, not away teams

BTW, I've still got a House of Pain fanzine somewhere - maybe someone should start that up again so it's worth going to the game so you can buy a copy?

Did anyone watch the summer bash games at Blackpool them boys seem to show more grunt than super league players bring back winning and losing pay do you think players will be pushing a it harder at drives and tackles

Instead of going character building in lanzarote why not go to alder shot with the parras or the marines I am sure they could weed out the ones just looking for a easy payday

Absolutely proper old school rough as fook rugby, full of heart, speed,power and skill. Really quality games

Thought Simon Grix could of still done a job for us.

Once again, MIAW, you speak my language.
It's up there, but with pre-launch huddles, and the vomit inducing "manly embraces" between players in the dressing room, when the cameras are there.

What we need now, is a Les Boyd figure going along the line, looking into players eyes, with his hand near their wedding vegetables, saying "Love up, and you lose them"