Thank God I cannot go to watch that shower and when I can it’ll be another season consigned to the bin. Smith has got to be on thin ice , the players he signed just aren’t cutting it, every casual observer questioned the Okunbor signing, as a back rower he is the epitome of half d and just isn’t good enough. We badly needed a scrum half and had plenty of time to get one , but instead we signed an international hooker , to play in a position he can’t , continue to flog the clubs oldest player and have no clue in attack. We have conceded over 100 points in two games and replied with just two scores . I’d get it if Pearson admitted we are below cap and because there is no relegation aren’t bothered by that worry, so have decided to sign targets that nobody else wanted until we are again solvent , then we could accept defeats, but not in the manner of the Leigh & Huddersfield games . We will be very lucky to sell 6000 passes next year ; I have never sensed a more disenfranchised group of diehard fellow supporters than I do now. I got a pass for this season as you do, don’t you , knowing that I’d miss upto 16 weeks, but in a time where the cost of living is a major concern for all of us, won’t be doing that next year , I just can’t take the club’s contempt for the fans any longer . I’ve seen some very low ebbs in supporting this club, since my first game in 1975 or 1976 but , even with no money and patched up teams , the pride of the players became the same pride of supporters- now the history of our club is being blackened by a team with no idea or discipline and a coach who cannot admit he is wrong. Something has to give - even when we got shellacked during Radders’ tenure , there was usually a response but under Hodgson and latterly Smith we have a team that wouldn’t worry the elite of The Championship. Sacking coaches isn’t the best formula for success but I don’t see what else Pearson can do. This club needs to engage with supporters or it’ll be doomed , and their current stance is the opposite of that, almost feeling like contempt for the people who keep them viable . Who could we get though as replacement? No real candidates scream out and who’d take the job anyway? Worrying times as the club is in free fall and may even be finished due to the parlours financial state it is in. Despair for the loyal thousands , utter despair.

Doesn't surprise me. Part of the problem with the sport is that nobody ever seems to be singing from the same hymn sheet. And on the occasions when they are, it lasts a season or two at best.

Yeh Completely agree even by challenge cup standards those attendances are abysmal and only two/ three games on TV so they can't blame that. We bring in a multi million pound organisation who are top of the tree internationally for sports promotion and development and then over rule them when they indicate the way they think the game should go!! Same scenario with size of Super League and getting rid of loop fixtures. I think for a lot of uninitiated folk the game is getting boring.

Although, wasn't one of IMGs proposals a two legged challenge cup match? Imagine if we had to go in for a second innings this week at 50-4 down

We could play “Taz”ball but knowing Smith,He’d declare when we get close to hudds score.