Financially he may have his hands tied, however within in his game plan he must instill the basics, run hard, tackle, complete your sets, have a good kick chase, don’t give away any penalties. Keep it tight in the first 10-15 minutes

In 5/6 games, I think we have conceded a try in the first 5 minutes. The other being London, who took 14 minutes to take the lead.

I would prefer Tony’s brother Brian back until the end of the season, he would get more of a tune from this squad than Tony has.

I'm not sure if sacking Smith would solve anything (I get the feeling that some issues are so deep-set they have become virtually immoveable) but it's certain that sticking with him will almost certainly see these horror shows being repeated week after week after week until our games are being watched by around 200 people!!

Whether it's Smith, his methods, Gene, the players trying to get him sacked, I don't know, but we have now gone beyond the point of no return. Something, somewhere has to change, we can't simply roll along like this any longer, every week that passes is doing irreparable harm to this once great club, soon there will be nothing left to build back on.

If this is another case of player-power attempting to get rid of yet another coach they don't like, well tell the players they can coach and pick a team themselves and see how far they get. At least they, and they alone, would then be accountable for their own actions.

Think pretty much everyone wanted him to be given the job when the rumours started but he needs to go.

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... ts-9185210 He's lost the plot

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... ts-9185210 He's lost the plot

Personally I was happy we appointed him. In fact, I thought we should have gone for him back in 2019 when KR did as things clearly weren't working for Radford then. Yes, it finished on a bit of a soar note at Rovers for Smith but you could see the improvement he had made there. He laid the foundations that they are currently kicking on from. His pedigree and credentials spoke for themselves. Not ashamed to admit that.

But something's not right. I don't think it's just Smith though. It's a rot within the club itself.

Pretty much everyone

I don't buy too much into player power.

Professional rugby is a short career and typically 2 or 3 year contracts (I know we like to buck that trend).

They are always in the shop window and playing for the next contract. They wouldn't jeopardise their livelihoods.

By contrast to other Super League teams we are slow, tactically inept, unmotivated, uncoordinated, rudderless, lethargic, passionless and confused.

Those are all Managerial/coaching remits.

I don't believe this is a team that can do much at its best because it's poorly put together (another managerial failing) but it is certainly more able then we are seeing.

Just about all, but there’s exception isn’t there?

Somebody who now looks very wise (wize?), with his house of cards metaphor.

Elegantly done!

The fans are fed up and ed off and he consistently comes out with this uninspiring "stick with us", "it takes time", "results like this happen" bull. If we were seeing signs of improvement you could believe what he says and that we're working towards something, but we're worse now than what he joined the club.

We look the worst coached team by a country mile. We've got nothing either side of the ball. With it we just plod around aimlessly, then put in a terrible kick or forget its the last tackle and pass it to a prop. Without it our contact in defence is pish poor, teams get god know how many after contact metres. We're all at sea when teams get in our 20 and just feels inevitable they will score.

We've had one win against an under equipped London team that we had to snatch in the last minute, other than that every other game has seen us comfortably the second best team.

Id love the club to host an open training session to see what they all get up to.

How he thinks his job is safe is beyond me. We should be interviewing potential head coaches now, I doubt our owner and CEO are that on the ball though.