Good years under Radders, weren't they?

Maybe Pearson fell for Smiths spiel about a long term rebuild (Ie an easy 3 years of secure employment for Uncle Tony) any good club owner would want improvements in year 1 and 2, not waiting until year 3, how many of your bosses would let you get away with not delivering in the first two years of your job because you promised things would come good in year 3?

At least most on here now agree with me about Smith.
You can bet if Smith is sacked Balmforth will play next week

Pele's defence behind the ruck is garbage.

I’ve seen enough thats beyond embarrassing and quite honestly Smith & Gene should be out of job by the end of today.

I agree I've never called for Smith to go or even considered it but that's enough for me, no other club has gone anywhere near as far backwards as we have over the last few years. I'm not even sure Shaun Wane could sort out this rabble.

Pearsons hands are tied financially but i do think he will sack Smith after the game and give Grix a run till the end of the season

Hoy is by far our most threatening player every game. He needs to play the full 80 every week, not start on the bench.

he certainly would cut out the indiscipline

He's exactly what we need, but why would he come here, we seem to be a graveyard for SL coaches, we probably couldn't afford him anyway.

Was never a fan of this appointment. Think they might wait until next week when we're out the cup - season over in March is impressively early even by our own recent standards.

Which, given our financial constraints, makes the walker signing seem strange, we should have used that money to sign a better quality halfback or second rower, not just signing walker because he was available, like we did with Fonua second time round

I concur.

But he was on Tinkering Tonys bad boy list
He should have been playing at 6 with Smith whilst Walker was fit but Tinkering Tony had to find a place for Houghton.
Another big mistake but hopefully he will be gone by tomorrow

Wane is exactly who we need though. I said the same when he was out of job. Missed opportunity.