Just rewatched the game.

Smith was hopeless.

1 pass in the first half when he managed some shape.

Kicking game shocking.

No service on the right.

2 needless penalties which gave KR field position to win the game, got put clean through from 20 m out…ran at the tacklers.

Body language was poor throughout the game, looked interested in the last 10 mins.

I’m sure he has potential but his attitude has a big ? over it.

Leagues turd, so we will make the top six but it’ll be by virtue of scraping past out of form teams. The most worrying thing from this season is that IMO. If we play a team in any sort of form we lose. If we play a team out of form, like Salford last week, Wakey the week before or Hudds in those two games, we can just about scrape home on the basis that they’re shocking and somehow worse than use.

Lam is just an horrendous coach for me. I’m still not writing this season off but it’ll be nigh on a miracle to turn it around with the deluded one at the helm. I’d have called Havard in to my office if I were Lam in the week, when he said we’d blown Salford away in that second half last week. I’d want to know how or why he felt that was us blowing a team away. If that’s a performance they’re Karting themselves on the back for, then I shudder to think what us now acceptable.

None of the team would get into Wigans 2nd team in the glory days

We all acknowledge the prop issue and it is significant.

The other major issue is the lack of quality in the spine of the team.

9-issue
7-Hastings superb
6. Issue
13. Issue
1. Quality.

You don’t need world beaters in the centres and on the wing if you have a quality spine.

Surely Millward?

I’d be happy with our spine for the rest of this season if we had a decent coach but he’s clueless. His comments on Morgan Smithies summed him up really. He spoke about how he’s been running the ball with more vigour and even though he knows he’s smaller than props/middles at other clubs, he’ll hold his own when he flogs him in there for rest of this season. So two alarm bells ring out to me straight away. 1-he’s been running with more vigour, making more ground and generally looking more comfortable in the second row but we’re moving him and 2-John Bateman has 13 on his back and we finally got to see him there in spells in the last two games and he had a good influence on the games but he’s done in there by the sounds of things.

I genuinely cannot wait to see the back of him. It’s such a shame that a great player for us will leave as a coach with the fan base letting out a collective sigh of relief but that’s what it will be. To not have to listen to his post match interviews again will be a pleasure.

I'm 43 .... no Google here.... is it Kel Coslett by any chance?

Best and most truthful post of the lot.

It's very frustrating. With ball in hand, we seem to have a 5 minute spell where we look like we know what to do, we then revert back to one out predcitable rugby.

In defence, the number of silly petulant mistakes is unacceptable and is killing us.

It says a lot that the best tackle of the game came from Jai Field on their big prop forward, absolutely crunched him. He also looked like lightening with the ball.

Yeah there was some great signs from Field, once fully fit he will be a definite asset. We just need our forward to do their job, and stop giving away stupid penalties

Hardaker again, great kick returner but nowhere to be seen chiming into the line in attack.

Field to FB for the rest of the year ?

Field has been signed to replace Hastings and play Stand Off with Smith at Scrum Half next season.


And he is not a regular full back unless of course, like the great David Bolton and Hastings plays there in an emergency!

And again the Oxford United fan was right, last night proves what he said to be true

I’ve had treatment to enable me to forget that name.
Now the nightmares start again.

I’m pretty sure it was Coslett at the helm when we got relegated.
The only reason we not with Leyth at the bottom is due almost entirely to Hastings.
At least we got shut of Millward when we finally realised that he was clueless.

Lam is totally and utterly useless. He would struggle at any level of the game in a coaching capacity.