some certainly getting abit carried away for sure!

Next week Darnell drops a couple of kicks and they will be on here wanting him hung drawn ad quartered.

Feel we have to give Thorman some credit for that improved performance. Seems he has told players some home truths and had the strength of character to add 4 younger players to the 17 - 2 of which were debuts. Don't buy in to the view that an improved performance was inevitable at all. Chris has stood up to media scrutiny well and seems to have respect from the squad.
Hope he gets a chance - see how he goes for a few games before we rush any decision. If he does well then maybe bring in a Head of Rugby to mentor him.
Great to see the 4 young lads perform so well.

Sorry Durham Giant, you must have read my thread wrongly. I didn't/am not getting carried away by just one result but just think that we need to regroup and create a bit of stability within the playing squad. Whatever happens behind the scenes is up to Ken Davy but swapping and chucking coaches will not help those out on the field. Just saying that giving Chris the reins till end of season will at least give everyone someone to get behind and support.

Grandad

he played well but did make one big mistake when he went into touch and leeds scored from the following scrum.

did he have much choice other than to play youngsters with the injuries ?

Stone wouldn’t have put in those youngsters- he would have shuffled the usual suspects round instead.

Agreed Jools. Stone would have probably played Mellor or Roberts at Centre and stuck with Murphy on the wing. No way would have have played any of our youngsters, English wouldn't have been called back by Stone who is our youngster most deserving of a shot and should get his chance today.

Big respect to Thorman who I think has been reading some of the comments on these boards and twitter.

Honesty regarding injuries.
Moving Murphy to Centre.
Giving the youngsters a chance.
Giving the players a few home truths.

Stone was a nice guy but was too stuck in his ways. Everything Thorman has done so far since taking over has been excellent.

Id like to see Players like English, Hewitt, Senior get a few more chances this season and hopefully Thorman will give it to them.

Sure people were saying the same about stone at start refreshing for him to be giving youngsters a chance. Easy to do when your just in temporary charge guarantee if Thorman gets the job permanent and we’re in this situation later in the season and we have a game we have to win to get in the 8 he’ll Be moving the experienced players about all coaches are the same start off like this then when hit hard times revert back to the experienced players

I wasn’t overly keen on Stone in the first place.

But I’m quite looking forward to watching today’s match. It’s been a while since I’ve said that!

erm maybe we should actually get rick stone back for him to save us from the drop again like last time...

Rick Stone actually did exactly what he was told to do and that was stave off relegation then get into the top 8, he did both with a game to spare and this year his task was stability while trying to sort the squad out, he was actually doing his job well again but it was the supporters and mainly some top sponsors who put pressure on the club to terminate his employment or they would withdraw their backing so i was told.

Rick stone did nothing any different to what Anderson did- he made no changes to structure and improved us in no way that I could see. Could argue our defence got worse. His signings were uninspiring. We avoided the drop by the skin of our teeth. Yes we’ve had a lot of injuries- but he did little to counteract that either. On top of that he made us abysmal to watch.. I reckon we would have avoided the drop with Anderson in much the same way.

might be a good idea to bring rick stone back again

saved us from the drop last time....

No thanks. Losing and playing like that is even worse.