I know,i'm basically giving an example of inconsistency,That's all.

When did coaches stump up cash for players, thought that was the owners job??????

Isn't it up to the coaches to identify if he needs a new player or not?

Jukes is the qualified coach with playing experience as a professional.

Would he not go to the owner to then see if there is money in the budget to buy?

Wrong board for you isn't it Peter ?

I hope you enjoyed The Marriot Charlie

Acton again let the club down.

Needlessly putting us under the cosh with 12 men is criminal. This is Super League where 9 games out of 10 that would punish and cost us. Why he did it I do not know.

Irrespective of what Acton did prior, it is what his team mates did for him covering him whilst he was sat on his backside in the bin, and aided by a bombed scoring chance later that got him off the hook big time.

Yes,the unfair criticism heaped on Vae only served to save the bacon for Acton.

How is Maria..He seemed to go down the tunnel holding his wrist.

No joy here Peter..So you take it back to the Leeds board..Interesting.

I wonder who you really are?

Out for 4 months

Pretty close game on Friday and quite competitive. I stated a couple of months back that you'd probably play well but struggle to get out of the bottom 4 which one of you didn't understand. This game is indicitive of what I meant.

Last season in SL we were similar, losing 7 games all season by 4 points or less (although some were a lot worse and drawing 2). Remember what happened to us? Entertaining yes, but you need to be on the other end of these marginal scores to survive. It's these games that you may regret come the end of the season, not the blow outs.

Still......early days yet.

Some clubs leave that to director of Rugby I understand, although a good club should have great dialogue between all key parties in the selection process, I don't believe a player gets approached directly unless it's niagra related. I do believe agents let owners know about availability and they would ultimately make the final call based on commercial reality, especially so if the coach had failed miserably the previous year unlike our current coach.

A bit hasty to suggest we need a clear out This is a new squad which was assembled for the Super League!
We have only played two games and the P45s are out! Each game will be a learning curve which the first two games have proved! The game against Leeds was a marked improvement from the Cas game indeed, we should have beaten Leeds and that statement in its self, is encouraging! We made five changes from the Cas game which indicated the Coaches are still formulating their best side, the supporters should not be expecting too much too soon.
We all have our opinions and, quite rightly so however, lets show DB and the coaches we appreciate the time, effort and expense gone into assembling this squad to represent our club in Super League, it is a vastly more talented squad than the 2005 team so lets not talk of getting rid of players, don't forget, players like Vea, Pellisier et al have only played twice and have yet to play under the leadership of Captain Micky Higham.
We are suffering with injuries at the moment, (some quite serious, long term), every team gets those but I think we've pinched someone else's share!!
There are many positives from the first two games, the players now know what is required of them and, they can go about putting those requirements in place

Soz Mo.

Was just raising question that's all.

IMO I would have though Jukes would make the decision on new players if he needs them. A great coach like Jukes will get the best out of what he's got.

Keeep the faith in the Juke

We had to assemble a SL squad to take us up on multiple year contracts and then recruit what was available to keep us up, should we get in the T8 then the squad will evolve and improve as we establish as a SL club. I believe Jukesy and Derek work well together and respect each other.