Quote Sandra The Terrorist="Sandra The Terrorist"It's not the amount of wins it's the manner of the defeats for me, the defensive patterns just aren't consistent, how can we keep teams like Wire and Saints down to reasonable points totals and then concede thirty odd to what at the time was a rubbish and demoralised Salford?
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Yeah, fair points - and my support is pretty equivocal. He's had a hard act to follow, not a great deal of luck with injuries and not quite the full cap to work with. Where he's not helped himself, IMO:
1. Talking about improving our defending was a hostage to fortune, and one that has backfired badly.
2. The 'team full of internationals' thing. Yep, SL isn't very competitive with just a handful of clubs able to hog nearly all the best players - but we take it for granted, and just get on with it. Acting like it is strange looks a bit like you haven't done your research or come to grips with things.
3. Maybe shifting the balance too far from hard working and reliable to talented and unpredictable. We wanted more excitement. But when people say that, they mean surprise presents or spontaneous nights out, not falling out of an aeroplane without a parachute.
4. Developing our youth, but losing or selling Taylor, Watts, Sheriffe and Peterson in his first season. How much of it was by choice I'm not sure. I don't know whether the last 2 are even getting much game time at Aussie part-time clubs. Taylor seems to be competing with Flower, Crosby and Dudson for a bench spot at Wigan, and while Hull fans seem to rate Watts he looked exactly the player that left us in the most recent derby (not a meaningful sample admittedly). But it has meant starting pretty much from scratch.
3 more games and I'll climb off the fence one way or the other, as to what I think [ushould[/u happen. Either way, the signals all seem to pointing towards him being let go at the moment.
