Don't post very often, but thought that I'd get a few things of my chest after another miserable performance.

Something has to change and that either needs to be the manager or the recruitment of a defensive coach. However having watched quins(broncos) for the last ten years I'm not sure that will make much of a difference. We just don't seem to have enough big and aggessive players who can defend and just as importantly give us go forward.

I can't complain about the service that the likes of Tamata and Ward have given us and Ollie seems to be carrying the pack on his own, but both Ward and Tamata are lets be honest past it and have both suffered bad injuries over the past few seasons.

Our backs are basically lightweight and our halves(if they were good enough) don't have a platform as the forwards don't punch holes in the oposition defense.

I see Randall has moved back to hooker in the last two games, but I don't think that this will make much of difference as he is not even half the player he was when he first joined us, injuries have put his best years behind him. I have made a point of watching Randall in the last couple of home games and he seems to be blowing hard all game long as if his fitness and body have given up on him.

I'm not sure that when Purdham comes back he will make much of difference as he seems to have gone the same way as Randall.

Finally, on another depressing note our average 'against' record in the last ten league games starting back at Warrington is 44 !!!!! Our average 'against' from the first 5 games is 16 !!!!!! Was it the beating tha Warrington gave us that lost the management/players the faith in the defensive system we had adopted or was it just that the other teams were yet to get going ?????

I can't see us winning another game this season if we have to score 40 plus points a game to have a chance !!!

Rant over.

you know this could be an interesting point
I was over the other side for the cas game, ok not the best game to use as that was prob a decent performance
But over there you cannot really hear whats coming from the supporters and there is no atmosphere at all

At least when we were sat over there, the players and the coach could get the feeling of the support! And they def react to it, both positive and negative.
The up close and personall does work, we need to barrack the club, if we go en masse on a match day it will only backfire with the MC reporting back to the RFL and the club will suffer for being unable to control the crowd
We need to make a real represenation to the club with the suggestion first, if no answer then sod it lets just go over there and give em our thoughts during the game

Quite right. Let us ask the club if we can go back, I am sure the players would appreciate close support. Hey I would go there next year and pay a lot more, if enough of us were keen it would easily pay for the stewards, the bar is a problem though.

SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE, UNLESS YOU LIKE FUNERALS!

I would say that it was mental brittleness that means our slumps last so long, and that the players believed yes we can do something, and now have returned to the 2010 attitude which is simply no we can't. Get a body language expert in to look at the 2010 pictures and they would say the games were lost before we had double digits against us on the scoreboard. I think a Cas fan pointed out that it was acceptance under the sticks and no voice of leadership, no plans to counteract anything or bring some energy to the play, try something different, lets do this, come on guys lets play for pride, attack the same guy for five tackles and exploit him, but there was nothing like that.

We realise we have a relatively weak squad, but at least Wakefield and Crusaders play with passion.

I fully agree with you that has become the attitude of the players since the slump started after the first games of this season, but why is there no Passion?

Tickets from the Evening Standard for the Bradford game are for the LV Stand which is the new name for the Lexus Stand. Hopefully the club will tell the stewards to let anyone sit where the want in the two stands apart from those reserved seats in the Etihad stand.