Quote Waketrin Wild="Waketrin Wild"It is a disgrace that JD found it necessary to have to move another 20/30 metres at the end of a game played in debilitating heat to attempt to appease the so-called supporter,RDM.
I had endured a bellyful from 2 males wearing Wakefield shirts (from previous seasons) and must apologise to an amiable female,wearing a Saint Helens polo shirt, who learned a new technique of the rhythm method as she was forced to continually stand up as the 2 incessantly plied the Harlequins club with money so they could drink beer as the only interruption to abusing the Wakefield players,whilst using obscenities for punctuation.
If I was a professional rugby league player would I be encouraged to play through a temporary loss of form for these supporters ? Probably not.
There will be 2 seat season tickets available shortly - I shall ensure they go to a good home.
JD made a wrong decision in a nanosecond of a nanosecond near the close of a difficult game,a Carnegie Challenge Cup game away at another Super League club.I believe him to be intelligent enough to realise that without that disappointment being compounded by at least one so-called supporter hyperventilating,screaming and gesticulating.
Please don't tell me it's because its a sign of passion and I shouldn't go to rugby league if I don't want to hear swearing.
J.D. has won even more admirers with his action.It takes a man to apologise and as yet,I haven't seen one from RDM.'"
I am not going to apologise for being passionate about the club I support & as for the OP I may well have been shouting at JD, but I certainly wasn't swearing as you mistakenly allege.
Fine, I wasn't shouting at JD when he was 2 feet away - he was able to hear me well enough.
I'm glad that JD wanted to respond, but that doesn't change the fact that all we have from this year's cup campaign is the dross that we saw on Saturday.
I'll be the first to admit that I may not have been as vocal if it had been a league match where we always have another day, but the Quins side on Saturday was no better than the one we played at the end of January and we should have beaten them easily despite the players that were missing/left/serving a drugs ban.
IMO (and at the end of the day we're all entitled to have one) JD was anonymous on Saturday & his match-costing error cannot go unchallenged. Whilst JD has been one of the best players at the club during his time with us, I don't think he can ever be described as a "great" player and has certainly not been providing "great" performances since the end of 2006.
The time for rose-tinted glasses is over. The harsh reality is that we're fighting to justify our place in SL beyond next season and that needs strong leadership from JK as head coach & also from our captain. I've said on many other occasions before this weekend that I don't feel that JD is the right person to be captain on the pitch & that if we had a fully fit squad he would struggle to be in what I would consider to be our best 17. I'm sure none of you will be surprised that I still hold that opinion, but neither is it any stronger an opinion that before Saturday's match.
I know that many of our fans belive that JD can do no wrong, and I'll leave all of you to have those rose-tinted views.