Quote: Jo Jumbuck "We are completely stuffed, It's embarrassing after the kind of money M.r Davy has spent. In my opinion any one of the other teams playing this weekend would have beaten us with ease. We need a coach of the calibre of Nathan brown or at least one who can motivate the players and we need to shift out half that squad, If that doesn't happen before the end of this season that will be me done and once i pack it in i wont be back. Mr Watson says we will be ok going forward, what gives him that idea is beyond me.'"
We have only had two quality coaches, Nathan Brown and Tony Smith. Look what Tony is now doing with Hull once he is starting to put him stamp on the side. Hoy and Clifford are quality and run the show. I said earlier in the year that we have the second worst spine in superleague, and i fully stick by it, we are truly woeful with the ball. Connor and Lolohea do exactly the same job. We have too many chiefs and not enough indians, and the chiefs we have are all the same ilk, slow with decent distribution, but who are they distributing to?! We have ZERO proven tryscorers amongst the wingers and clearly this is a year too far for Jerry. It would be forgivable if this was a side Watson inherited (Like Smith and Hull) and he was transitioning but is absolutely is not.
As for coaching, last year there were a few set moves which worked for the early part of the year, once sides got wise to them we could not score for love nor money. Since then there has been ZERO development in attacking shape. Every side i have watched this year have exposed Hurrell in defence due to his poor mobility, we didn't attempt to do that even once, not that we have the players to do it anyway.
His signings this year have all been truly woeful, barring Naiqama, who would look much better with better service:
Rushton - Looks good, but didn't need another prop, now we have lost Trout as a result who was in my opinion better
Bibby - Worst winger i have seen for a long time, no pace makes bad reads in defence, but clearly one of Watsons favourites
Connor - Does the same job as Lolohea, now neither of them is playing well, lacks pace when pace is what we needed
Peats - Awful knee jerk reaction signing to losing Levi, overseas to boot, no pace, how many times does he scoot in a game? One, or none
Livett - Didn't need another forward, added nothing we didn't already have,
Milner - So bad Cas who have only won three times all year didn't want to retain him after this year
Marsters - All style and no substance, looks good out of D, offloads the ball, can't find the tryline and woeful in defence
You can tell that Sky pundits spend absolutely no time analysing our side as they all somehow think (like Watson) that we have a good squad. What we have is a ridiculously imbalanced squad, with some of our poorest players in the spine, the most important part of any side.