How many halfbacks do we need to go through before people realise it's the more fundamental weaknesses we have that are the main problems? Any halves will never deliver to their fullest for us until we have sufficient quality and options for them to work with.

What ever anyone thinks the trouble is this is going to have a long term effect on this club and its fortunes and this was always my fear with the present set up. Radford may well be a good coach given a bit of time, he is not going to get it no amount of papering over the cracks is going to save him or the club this time.

AP has to take on a top coach and PTQ............

Halt the decline

Turn it around #

Make some great signings for next term

and then we may just manage to salvage something from this mess, we are right in the brown stuff now and doing nothing will really bring it on big time.

always tell when hull lose ,all the wallies come out to play.get a grip.

2008, 2009, 2014 all over again!


absolute cr@p!!

dumb lazy players, one man rugby, predictable set plays!


suppose that is what you get when you appoint an amateur coach!

amateur players and plays!

I'll give you the dumb and predictable. However the effort is there IMO. The likes of Rankin, Houghton, Pryce, Mini, Paea, Thompson never gave up. Must be so frustrating for them.

Exactly. Plenty on here claiming our problems were down to our lack of decent halfs but it's way deeper than that

Well there are plenty of opportunities for them to come out to play

What's your view on it then?

Satisfied?

You can't knock the effort. 4 losses by 1 score or less means that the players are putting a shift in. We desperately need some fresh ideas and impetus from somewhere

they may have never given up but cas' defence had no problems reading our plays!

ok we had 2 good tries in the second half from long balls cut out passes but that is we had, them 2!

substitutions was mind boggling! hadley unused for 50 minutes yet westy was nowhere near fit!


fear for our next two games! could be very embarrising

This is exactly it. Our lack of a quick ptb, runners, support play, etc. all make our attack so ridiculously simple to read that teams contain us relatively easily. This is where it makes it so difficult for our halves, because they then have to work even more to fashion any opportunities. I would say that in relation to the other halves in SL, they probably have to work harder and be better than the rest just to look as good, because they receive so little help from the team and (lack of) organisation around them. How often do they get to attack a scrambling defence with multiple pass options inside and outside? Instead they are left with either dropping the ball off for someone to trundle in, pulling off an inch-perfect low-percentage pass, or just kick it. All of which makes them look aimless and then highlights when they make a mistake.

Nail on head. As others have said its not even lack of effort. Just needs to be channelled in the right way with some direction and guile but we simply are not clever enough, either on the pitch or off it.