I'm not making excuses, our ball retention was absolutely appalling and we didn't deserve to win, however these players might be back from injury but they are far from match fit and it shows. Just confirms what I've been saying for years about the necessity for a reserve grade to give somewhere for players returning from injury to actually gain some match fitness.

… and confidence, you'll never know for sure your knee is 100% until you start playing for real, and the reserves is the obvious starting point - if you don't feel quite right then you can come off without risking making things worse.

Exactly. The reserves is so much more than just a youth team. It's somewhere for the regular first teamers to play if needed to gain match fitness. I'm massive advocate for it and really hope the rumours that are circling of a reserve grade being developed across the board are true.

Simon Mannering

I hear you

Lee can’t have it both ways though

Just like Trump claims the Stock market successes he then can’t disown the losses to come

Lee used to the excuse of unfit players returning as the reason
for the loss. So the following week surely he can’t fall into the trap of being so daft as to play players not fit etc

If he did then he’s stupid or unfit players are not really the reason and the low morale , confidence and missed tackles are down to his
coaching methods ??

He can’t use the same excuse 2 weeks running - surely

I don't think he used it as an excuse.
He actually said, after tha Wakey game that he 'Rolled the dice'.
I take that to mean he was gambling on not fully match fit players to have the experience, and guile to improve the team, more than several of the young players, who have all had too much game time this year.
We have a lot of players coming back from serious injuries, all of whom need game time.
Where else can they get that game time?

Granted if the morale is low there may be things he can do to improve that. Confidence and missed tackles are down to individuals.

And he's announced his retirement

Awaits calls for Steve McNamara.

I'd have Lineham back, I'd also have McNamara as coach if Radford did leave,

I'd have lineham back. Decent wingers are rare these days. None of his crowd left at HURL for him to fook around with now either.

Would you be happy with Brian McDermott for 2019??

Nope, he won trophies at Leeds but also inherited a good system and good players from Tony Smith and they were very inconsistent. Champions to middle 8s to Champions and middle 8s again.

While of course we'd be happy with being Champions at any cost, constantly dropping in to the middle8s is risky and you'd come unstuck at some point.

Radford deserves time to sort this out, im giving him until Easter before the Radford Out banner is dusted off