People keep going on about his 'confidence' but he's played well over a hundred NRL games. He's not some young kid.

I suppose when Holdsworth failed a late test that was when he had to bring him in. Otherwise we didn't need 3 halves in the 19.

It was all seymours fault,everybody else played great.Why dont you open your eyes starting with gentle and mcrae,who appears to have disappeared,is he having liprosuction.??

Why would he pick him in the 19 when he thought Holdsworth was playing?

I think it highlights just how bad the recruitment under the last regime really was .

Neither was Thorman while he was here but when fans jump on every single mistake you make I imagine you begin to begin to try to hard & become nervous while playing which really isn't a good thing.

Gentle obviously thought Seymour/Holdsworth was the way to go after pre-season.
He drops Seymour after the first game of the season and was that desperate not to bring him back last week that he thinks he can get away with playing Azza there and hopefully get away with it.
It doesn't work, we all know it doesn't work.
He brings Seymour back tonight when every man and his dog knows that his confidence is shot to pieces.
His performance adequately illustrates it.

I'm just musing over our coach's man-management/judgement, that's all.

People didn't just 'jump on every mistake'. He played poorly for a fairly sustained spell and people lost patience. In both instances.

Not straight away they didn't & I understand people only have so much patience with players playing badly but it does sometimes border on ridiculous on here. I do agree he played bad both games he's played this season but he certainly hasn't been the only one.

I also don't think the change in youth teams will have helped either as he won't have had any gametime at all now for a month which won't help with keeping 'match fit'

We won't be able to send him to York either will we due to visas?

Muse away - I'm just reporting what Gentle said.

Oh - and a fair few people on here were wanting Heremaia at SH until recently.

My take on it...

Gentle was undecided between Horne and Seymour to partner Holdsworth. On the strength of pre-season games he gave Seymour first crack and he had a poor game. So he gave Horne a crack and he did well enough to hold onto the shirt. With Holdsworth out he had a choice between Heremaia and Seymour. For whatever reason he decided that Seymour wasn't up to it and went with Heremaia. That didn't work out too well and we lost Heremaia's spark at hooker. So this week he decided to give Seymour another crack.

Sometimes life just sucks.

It's understandable, that. My confidence is never up to much when I'm doing stuff I'm sh*te at.

stuck up for him, but tonight he was awful

More often than not if you're an FC fan.

Let's not kid ourselves that this is about two games. He was consistently poor for most of last season, too.