Exactly if they can’t or won’t put the effort in for their own sakes then not a lot of hope of them putting any in it all. Think a few will likely retire so explains their body language and efforts, some probably sulking now their easy life and ruling the roost is over, some plainly not good enough and some either already plans are elsewhere after this season etc.

Laidlaw and Gardiner should be ahead of Evans as well.

Player power happens in all sports

Definitely happening at Hull fc last 5 years

All it would take is all super league teams to put things in a contract like possible termination of contract

Cause I hate player power , sport is the only industry where the main people can under perform and nothing happens to them

Players would still sign as majority would rather play rugby than work on a building site ( aka Jamie shaul )

Pearson got lucky for a couple of years because he had a top coach who could deliver some silverware and identify good players and the pulling power to get them on board. Apart from what Radders did for our club, Pearson's time here has been atrocious.

Pearson has always delivered the cash for new signings

How's it his fault the players not been a^sed?

I’d like to see Evans sent back to Oz now or, if that’s not possible, then played in the reserves until he goes a run of games without giving a penalty away

On the odd occasion we do put some effort into our defence he invariably gives a six again away or a penalty

We then have to do it all again and usually end up conceding.

I don't necessarily think "atrocious" is right. It's been, 2016/17 apart, not much different to the Hetherington/Rule era in terms of on the pitch delivery?

40 nil at home against your nearest and dearest. Radford got sacked for less.

Signed some good players in 2015-2017 but then he ended up signing the likes of Danny Langtree, Matty Dawson-Jones, Levi Nzoungou, Jordan Johnstone and Lewis Bienek.

And we are still paying for affects of Radfords tenure with ooor recruitment and old boys club much like Cas will.

Sadly Pearson had taken rugby advice from the wrong person starting with sacking Gentle then appointing Radford backing the wrong guy. If it hadn’t been for Motu and the players he brought in I doubt we’d have had any success as it was more the core group of leaders we had on the pitch rather than Rsdford that lead to the cup wins.

Yep worryingly it's been the same story under Hetherington and Pearson, a few good years with cup wins and promise followed by disappointing years missing the playoffs.

Shaun McRae once talked about a cancer at the club and I still don't think we know what causes a culture of poor performance (though McRae himself didn't help with some duff signings in his 2nd spell) players just seem to underwhelm at this club.

It was a damn sight lot more entertaining than the e we've been served since he's gone.

No one knows how signings will turn out until they play

Pearson hasn't got a crystal ball

Radford stayed too long and we are still paying the price for his poor choices of contract extensions. He should have gone after that long run of defeats in 2018.

The only thing I can say was he had a clear style, big blokes who barged it up with Sneyd providing pin point kicks. That style had most likely had it's day but we haven't adopted a better one to replace it, our players are now smaller but somehow not any faster or creative, we've lost the power aspect