Does anybody know what activities are involved when Pearson says Radford is rebuilding the club from top to bottom? Whatever it is he must be bloody fantastic at it for it to over shadow the mess he's making of the bit that actually counts - on the field!

Spot on.

Maybe Tuesday. Wouldn't want to ruin his bank holiday

As for the game, nothing I've read here is anything I'd disagree with. I see Radford is blaming the players; well, those guys didn't stop running for 80 minutes so the effort is there, but they had no idea in attack.

Lack of ideas by the players is down to the coaching. Whether the tactics are inept, or the players don't understand what they are meant to be doing, it's a coaching issue. These are good players, who have knowledge and experience of the game, so they know what to do, but they need guidance to turn them into a team.

And that's why Radford has to go. Blaming the players in public shows he's lost the dressing room. Go now.

I have watched it back (from behind the setee and through my fingers ).
the first two were as a result of some very poor tackling, and the third should have been disallowed for offside. Lunt was well in front of Kelly at the kick. However, our try should probably not have been allowed, although it is arguable that Dixon lost the ball in the tackle.
That said we got what we deserved, nothing.
Last tackle plays were dumb and predictable.

R we back to peter walsh days at least we knew we wud get beatback then

We know we will get beat now

After our performance last night and Widnes' win over Wire I can't see us winning either of the next two. If we don't we'll have 4 points out of a possible 20. Surely Pearson must act then? He needs to tear his colours down from Radford's mast before the entire ship sinks under him.

Still a bit lost for words about last night but others seem to have put it better than I ever could and the subject title says it all really.

Like we've been told a few times "it's a results driven business" surely when Pearson gave Radford the job as with most jobs,he was told this...not you're safe no matter how bad things get? Time will tell I suppose..I have a bad feeling that he will be given time to "turn things around" but unfortunately we don't have that time.

There's two ways to look at it for me. Either he genuinely believes what Radford is telling him about the players effort and thinks one lucky win might start us on a run. If that's the case then he obviously doesn't know very much about the game and how it's played, because if he did he would be able to see for himself what is so painfully obvious to most of us who do know a thing or two.

The second possibility is that he knows he's made a mistake, but after sacking Gentle and backing Radford to the point where he has effectively said he won't be sacked no matter what, he is too stubborn to backtrack and admit his mistakes.

There's also a third option which is that he wants to act but doesn't think he can afford to after all the other recent expenses. I don't think this is likely though. He must realise that if he doesn't act in order to save money now it will only sting him worse in the future.

He would react differently if it was a football club I bet

My hope is that he's trying to arrange someone else to come in his place but has no one lined up yet so is just sticking with his man until then.
We need someone with experience. Who knows what a winning set up looks like and has the ability to implement it into a new club. Who on Earth is there available that can do that?!

This seems the most likely, if we get rid of Radford before somebody else is lined up what are we left with? Last and Horne?

God help us where Last is concerned because I really don't think it's a coincidence that he was also Agar's assistant and we played poorly then too. Horne needs to earn his stripes with the U19's. As I said on another thread they won again today. Top of their league which is very promising both on the playing front and the coaching front.

It's difficult to comprehend really what's going on with your lot. It is clear that the players are either genuinely confused by LR's tactics or lack of or they are just not interested in playing for him. I don't watch you enough to know what the definitive answer is. One thing stood out for me though, and even if the players do not understand the tactics/game plan they should still be encouraged or should even want to try something different, run a little bit harder or try a little kick through. Players like rankin, pryce and shaul should be able to at least try something and for me the spark was just never there. You made metres fairly well, just looked scared to go out and play rugby.