Alan I think KP is a good Coach, as you pointed out he came extremely close to getting us in the top 4,the damage was done at the start of the season,every skilled man needs decent tools to do his job, KP had them during the season and the results were there however now the Quality of players in the squad is not up to that standard and the results are showing.

We beat Sheff twice,and Barrow quite well, but struggled to beat Rochdale,beat a poor Swinton side on the day,and lost at Fev who had 14 men,not exactly setting the house on fire, which is why I felt Batley would beat us.On Sunday we travel to Dews which is never an easy place to go, and I think we will struggle,the same as the Fev game in 2 weeks.

Success and failure are a fine line a kick , a try, even a Refs decision could have made our season so different, I still have nightmares of the Barrow away and Toulouse at home games,how did we lose them?

And not forgetting Toronto at Summer Bash.

Add 'Capacitor' & build it, we could time travel back to Huddesfield at home 2016 !

Would you give 110% if you might not get paid at work ?? . Just a thought.!

Effort isn't really the issue , don't ' put it in ' and you'll get hurt playing RL , quite simply we are disjointed , because we ARE disjointed , nobodies fault , just the way it is

A lot of that Batley team have been there quite a while , add in one of the best part time halfs ever in Brambani , and it was always going to be difficult

On to the Rams

I concur

Do you think Purtill selected the likes of Acton and Ryan Bailey on merit? No he didn't but he had to field a team of 'players'

The thing I like about Keiron is that, unlike Jukes, he is no ones yes man, if you don't perform you are out and someone else gets the shirt. No favouritism, No cliques, No nonsense.

I like him and his style of management. Everyone knows where they stand. Ask Bergal. He was dropped during this shield campaign,for the exact same reason Acton was previously dropped in the season. Fair and square policy.

Coaches who take no absolutely no shi!te, can however be placed on a collision course with club owners. There's the worry.

For what reason was Ridy dropped or AJ ? They are standard rules,break them and suffer the consequences. Nothing to do with being a yes man.

If your late for training,then your late for work. We really need to get away from this fictional stuff and start looking at reality.

I'm sick of hearing if we had won those first games we wouldn't have been in this position. Yet we had the strongest squad going into the Summer Bash, and blew that. Just remind me who the coach was?

Reality. Coach Purtill did not get Mata’utia binned at the bash.

I really do not think that affected the result- we were very much on the back foot by that point

Wow - Putil wins 16 out of 17 to give us a fighting chance and your singling HIM out.

Do you think he told Drew Hutchison that game management is to kick high into Toronto's defence whilst they are facing our own line in those closing mins? Rather than turn them around and make them work 100 yards up field?. Do me a favour. If Purtil had a full head of hair he would have lost it there and then that night.

These players that won so many games under him by the way were not Purtils choice either. Remember that. He worked with the card dealt to him and did a quite remarkable job.

It has earned him another shot as Leigh RL head coach for me.

I agree, you don’t coach players to panic and play daft rugby.

Should you not look to coach it out of them ??

Players are allowed a bit of leeway in their decision making but if they are continually taking the wrong option then you replace them.