Quote giddyupoldfella="giddyupoldfella"Crooks has had chances this season, he wasn't prepared to bend his back and put a tackle in for his team, I think dropping him was good man management.
We're + 89 in points difference (Catalan, Rovers, Widnes and Wakefield all in the minus), considering we've lost 12 and only won 7 it tells me Radford's getting effort out of the team, but we don't have the personal in the key areas (A general on the field) to turn effort in to victories (Radford inherited a team without one of those players)
Miller's been given the opportunity and proved himself not good enough (blame him, not Radford), so what has Radford done to rectify it? he's gone and (hopefully) brought in the on field personal in those key areas.
We're in the current position we are because of what came before this season, give Radford time to put his own jigsaw together and then judge him.
You cant get blood out of a stone.'"
Radford has been getting effort (most of the time) but that has never been the issue.
Radford isn't going anywhere yet, so since it's pointless calling for his head, I'm going to wait and see what happens next season. Maybe Sneyd and Pryce will turn out to be the difference, but without a bit of structure we could have Cronk and Thurston and they would still struggle.
It's not something that's been discussed much on here, but I think what Cunningham does is going to be a massive factor next season. If we are relying on Houghton we're in trouble.
