Totally agree. Recruitment will only improve things a little if we don't sort out our fundamental failings.

This is something that has frustrated me immensely with the club since Agar. IMO this is a core facet of how a team plays, and as such should mainly be a coaches responsibility. We seem to have handed it over to the halfbacks, which to me is asking them to do the coach's job for them. It should be sorted on the training field until it's carried out in matches automatically, we shouldn't need a halfback to tell grown men when and where to run like a teacher in a PE lesson.

Ironically though a disciplined and confident side can happily take the two whilst a side like us often end up scoring two points and then making that dumb mistake you refer to under our own posts and then letting in a soft try making it a net -4.

Hence the word [icontribute[/i being used. If they are better equipped to execute the plan that can only help.

I wasn't saying [iyou[/i were passing the responsibility on to the halfbacks. You seem to be hoping that new halfbacks will be able to help the situation (as we all will be), but that's indicative of the point I was trying to make, we are hoping that new halfbacks will help pick up the slack being left by coaching deficiencies. The last 3 coaches and Pearson at some point have all seemed to consider it acceptable to just point at the halfbacks and say that the problem lies there (either that they haven't been good enough or that we have had injury absences), when there is so much that could/should be better regardless of who is playing there. All teams suffer without first choice/good enough halfbacks, but they don't all completely fall apart and regularly play like a bunch of strangers like we often have for the past half a dozen years.

Jordan Rankin will get better and better when allowed to remain in the squad and not chopped and changed around as Radford tends to employ when making his selections. Have a little patience Lee, Rome wasn't built in a day and neither will H.F.C. be. We know you're the coach but lots of us have been following this game before you were born -we've managed to suss out a fair bit of nous. Grannyfan Cindy

Bloody hell welcome back Grannyfan.

Never been away Smiggs, just say it as it is at the FC instead of on the boards. Still old faithful with the stress on the 'OLD' !! Grannyfan Cindy

This I agree with.

Fantastic win on Friday but Rovers were poor and we have being poor throughout the majority of the season, which probably made our performance look better then it actually was. Rovers are also a team outside the play offs, so when you put that into context it was no real mean feat.

A lot of work in pre season has to be done.

Not taking anything away from your performance as you dominated us in defence but i left happier with the score than I should because that could and should have been a 50+ drubbing. We played worse than we did against Cas and they ran in 11 tries, only Sneyds goal kicking that day stopped it being a bigger rout.

The state of both teams this year has been a crying shame for The RL supporting fans of this city.

WOW being able to turn a hammering and becoming the first kr team to be pointless in 50 years of derby games into a positive is some achievement.

Trust me there was no positives to be taken, only stating it could and should have been much much worse, which is a reflection of how bad we were and how impotent your attack was. Sad thing is we'll probably play well at the weekend, it seems a trait we all seem to recognise.