Quote: Aboveusonlypie "I'm more than happy to believe that you are right about Tommy. But we don't have a particularly good recent record of 'old boys' returning.
The Widnes game surely proved to everyone that Matty was badly missed and that Shorrocks is nowhere near ready.'"
I’d agree if we had generally been good in attack, and the Widnes game was a one off with Smith missing, but that isn’t the case. The Widnes game showed we are very poor in attack, and that Shorrocks isn’t able to step in and fix it (not that it should be expected!).
IMO our issues lie primarily with coaching, as the players at our disposal are good enough to score more than they have. We get the field position, yet they don’t seem to have a clue what to do in the opposition 20m. Whether the answer is to bring in an attacking coach or just replace Wane I don’t know. It would be ideal for Wane to stay as defensive coach to learn from someone more experienced but I’m sure he would rather leave to be head coach somewhere else.
Having said all that, I did say before the season kicked off that we lack spark at 7 and 9 compared with our biggest competitors, Tommy should prove a shrewd signing in that regard. Is Smith definitely on his way? It baffles me that Saints would consider him.