your effort is a disgrace

Another who should have got his marching orders weeks ago

Your actually far more on the mark with this than Owen.

There is an old adage in RL that if you don't make mistakes you're not doing anything - Smith personifies this for me.

Most over rated player I have ever seen. I have been consistent in my belief that he is lazy and not what we need. I was talking to a very credible former international player that said "for every good thing that Smith does he does 2 bad things" - he is soft as they come - I mean the entire squad is soft - so very soft but he is like a marsh mallow.

It is a hard game to play but especially when you are playing with 11 men i.e. no half backs. Miller was missing for long periods of the game and Smith was pathetic. What was the point of trying to drop a goal from an impossible area and what difference would a single poit make. Tom Johnstone scored a couple of good tries but his defence needs some work and Owen was just doing favours for his old mates., kicks out on full, knock ons, glass back etc. I am glad MC hasn't taken the cheap option and Smith stays for a while doing for us what he did at Bradford.

I don't see that at all. He is putting a lot of effort in but he is a passer and needs some runners.
His kicking isn't great but we have no one better and for the supposed Princess of the defence he was first to tackle the kick return on 2 if not 3 occasions.
He needs a partner who can kick and some people who can catch and run.

Smith is undoubtably playing poorly this year, his kicks have got particularly poor, but yet who else in our squad could replace him?
And since the entire team are playing total sh8te then TS is on a hiding to nothing trying to create something.

Things need sorting out and Im sure Brian Smith will be on to it real soon.

Tim smyth

when did we sign him

Smith needs to be behind a winning pack as do most halves to be fair, but especiallyb him. He has one game and if the forwards are struggling he is pants. If you want a half to play in a struggling team its not him

In his haste to blame one player for the sorry state of the club, he got a little carried away on the keyboard, without bothering to check the spelling.

He will no doubt receive sympathy that some pedant criticizes his grammar, but for heaven’s sake at least start a thread with the correct spelling!

I have been a champion of Timmy over his time at the club & I still believe that with a pack who could at least hold their own, he can still do the business.

He’s very much a confidence player, not sure how much his illness contributes to this, but right now the whole team is in a mental rut.