I got slated a few weeks back and yet today's performance proves my point, the players haven no respect for smith. The supporters think he was the saviour winning 1 game against a championship side. The players want him out, his methods are out of date. Mr Billy big time attitude. Bring back Jk or Richie Marshall best young coach around.

I like Brian's comment when he said the game is lopsided towards the bigger clubs. We will not be able to compete with the Ozz teams until this is sorted out. In Ozz the TV money is shared out fairly and there are rules to stop the best team from having all the better players. They also are not allowed to poach the young & upcoming players, if they are not in their area. Players who are sent off face getting at least an 8 match ban, instead of our very lenient system!! It seems we are way behind and have a lot of catching up to do!!!

The big difference with the Aussies, is that RL is HUGE over there (at least it is in the states where it is played).
IIRC, their sponsorship deal is around £1 billion where ours is counted in millions.
Therefore the draw for young players is substantially higher, creating a much larger talent pool.
It's got rock all to do with TV scheduling, just pound notes (Aussie dollars).

Back on topic
Smith comments show the calibre of coach that we now have at Wakefield.
As I mentioned in another post, the guy understands the full picture, fans, players, finance, coaching etc and it's high time that we fought our corner with everything that we have.
It's a pity he doesn't know about UK planning regulations

One thing I like at the moment is the pen picture they have for Smith is of him with his Wax jacket on pointing aggressively clearly directing operations in training.
The other coaches have pictures of them in studio with a nice branded track suit on or watching the game from up high.

That shows exactly what we have. A mature experienced coach who is getting his hands dirty making this club go somewhere. When he goes we need to replace with something similar, rather than an up and comer. It's no coincidence that Kear stepped things up for us compared to T Smith, Agar and Webster. I'm sure they are all academically astute coaches, but we need a strong leader more than a tactical wiz. Smith seems to be both.

Thought it was an excellent interview and said it exactly how he saw things. He is a very astute individual who we are fortunate to have as our coach.

Superb interview from BS highlighting a lot of issues.