Quote Bostonslugholes="Bostonslugholes"Il level with you, i started a positive thread speculating on what team shaun might put out and the first reply is a negative one slating the team again do you think that this is acceptable??'"
Hatty said we're struggling to play as a team recently. Yes I do think that's acceptable, it's an opinion, which is what forum's are for. Is it justified? Well let's have a look at our form in the last 5 games:
Wakefield (a) - After 70 minutes we were losing against 9th place. Two late tries and a penalty won us the game
Widnes (h) - After 65 minutes we were losing against 11th place. Two late tries and a drop goal see us win by 1 point.
Warrington (a) - Beaten by 10 points against 3rd place.
Castleford (h) - Beaten by 14 points against 12th place
Bradford (h) - After 75 minutes we were losing against 10th place, nicked a winning try in the last second.
Now while it is good that we ultimately won 3 of those 5 games, none of the wins were convincing, and we've only played one top 8 team in that time. Not the form of champions, far from it. IMO it's because we looked knackered, and we seem to lack ideas near the opposition try line. We also only seem to galvanise ourselves when things are really against us. I think when S.Tomkins and O'Loughlin return we should look a lot better, it is worrying how much we rely on those two players, especially given one of them is almost certainly leaving after this season, but then again that's not a lot different to Leeds with Sinfield and Warrington with Briers, and both of them will surely retire before long.
Quote Bostonslugholes="Bostonslugholes"We are top of the league with an injury list as long as your arm can stretch, im simply making the point that some people just cant be happy with us still winning with half a team of young kids and players not back to their full fitness.
I also dont think it's acceptable slating our young kids on here, if they where to read some of the comments that some morons put on here what do you think it might do to their confidence?? At the end of the day if they are looking for a positive response from writing slanderous remarks about players on here you must be living on cloud nine.'"
I don't really know who you think has been slating our youngsters. If you mean no one should be able to criticise the performance of the team because there are some youngsters in it, I disagree. We have hit very poor form for a team of our calibre. I think we'll manage to beat Widnes on Monday, but that then leaves us less than two weeks to put things right before the cup semi final, which could easily be against the winner of that Warrington/Huddersfield game.
Point is, not everyone is going to agree with you, and as long as they aren't abusive, that should be acceptable. To be honest though I've seen you post worse than that about some of the young lads, Jack Murphy in particular.
