Re: Smith out ASAP : Sat Apr 06, 2024 5:03 pm  

Judder Man wrote:

Outsider looking in, Smith is coaching a team with very little basic structure to fall back on when under pressure. Last season he tried to play expansive rugby from anywhere on the pitch worked for a short period but the percentages for consistent success is low.
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The likes of Wigan, Saints and Catalan have great basic defensive structures with controlled attacks, it looks as though Warrington have joined the party as well this season.
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Leeds play too much off the cuff rugby which can break down quickly and they end up under pressure. Hull KR and Salford are similar but perhaps do it a little bit better because of team work, Leeds don't look like a "togetherness team" and Rohan Smith is responsible for that.

I agree. But your last comment is interesting because I feel like every pre-season in the recent past we’ve had to put up with culture chat, where they do a song and a dance about how they’re developing some culture “spirit of the rhinos” or some other mentality related blurb. This pre-season we had Cameron smith rabbiting on about colours, how certain players were this colour and that colour based on how they responded to different types of communication.

Every pre-season we sit through this bollox and then the real business starts and they serve up rubbish and are mid-table. What’s the point?

Saints and Wigan don’t have to do a song and a dance about culture, it just is.

The club has got lost in the mythology of the “golden generation” and keep trying to recapture that spirit.

Just f*cking move on. It’s been nearly a decade.

Re: Rowley : Sat Apr 06, 2024 5:07 pm  

Yes please.

Re: Rowley : Sat Apr 06, 2024 5:09 pm  

Or Wane

Re: Rowley : Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:29 pm  

Chesterrhino wrote:

Or Wane

He can't get it right with best players in the country so no.

Re: Rowley : Sat Apr 06, 2024 7:19 pm  

Jason Demitreou may be available soon.

Re: Rowley : Sat Apr 06, 2024 7:41 pm  

Him or Carr would probably be my picks if we did lose Smith. Not sure how Demetriou would view coming to SL at this stage.

I’m still not there yet on a Smith exit. He talks a lot of sense but there was always a lot riding on his decisions on retention and recruitment going into this year; and it looks wobbly.

If we do change coach I would want a 100% proven coach this time; not a punt, not a project, not a tryer but someone very highly rated. Furner, Agar, Smith - none were existing top flight coaches. Leeds is a big big job.

We also need to spend big. There’s no getting around the correlation between squad and results: and you have to pay for good players.

Re: Rowley : Sat Apr 06, 2024 7:50 pm  

Errm havent we just shelled out over 300k on transfers? As it goes though mom looks well short of what we needed and frawley leaves a lot to be desired.

Re: Rowley : Sat Apr 06, 2024 9:02 pm  

Seth wrote:

Errm havent we just shelled out over 300k on transfers? As it goes though mom looks well short of what we needed and frawley leaves a lot to be desired.

Unfortunately Nene and Austin were better players…..
Sezer about same as Croft…..

Re: Rowley : Sat Apr 06, 2024 9:12 pm  

I'll be really critical of what this teams producing but sezer equal to croft, you've outdone yourself with that one Shabs

Re: Rowley : Sat Apr 06, 2024 9:24 pm  

Seth wrote:

I'll be really critical of what this teams producing but sezer equal to croft, you've outdone yourself with that one Shabs

Sezer js playing well in the NRL.

Croft looks like an amateur player in SL

That’s why sezer is playing in the nrl

That’s why Croft is playing at a bottom half SL team

Please don’t compare them