Great test for Tony : Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:13 pm  

I'm really looking forward to how Tony Smith reacts and sorts out these problems we are having. He came in at a point where we couldn't have got any worse and took us to the top with the best rugby I'd ever seen at Wire.

He's now faced with a big problem of an ageing side and one that is bang out of form and looks disjointed. Whether it's the Myler-Harrison squad splitter or the Aus pre-season, or whatever I'm going to enjoy watching how he turns it around as he will. The honeymoon is over, over to Tony Smith.

Re: Great test for Tony : Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:34 pm  

The posters who subscribe to the ISWT philosophy will no doubt be looking on with not only great concern, but great hope that he can turn the tide otherwise their philosophy will die on it's backside.

Re: Great test for Tony : Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:35 pm  

We have too many average players and one or two that we have kept on too long

Re: Great test for Tony : Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:39 pm  

CommanderShepard wrote:

The posters who subscribe to the ISWT philosophy will no doubt be looking on with not only great concern, but great hope that he can turn the tide otherwise their philosophy will die on it's backside.

Sorry ,thicko alert ! What is ISWT ?

Re: Great test for Tony : Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:39 pm  

TheDoc wrote:

We have too many average players and one or two that we have kept on too long

CBA to look back at your posts but I bet you were raging with the signings of Ratchford, Waterhouse & Hill this season and us not unloading any players than King & Anderson?

Re: Great test for Tony : Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:41 pm  

Players that will need replacing (this isn't about form or me singling them out just nature) are

Hodgson
Morley
Briers
Briers has probably another year in him

So we need to start slowly bringing through the youth so that they are ready for when these players go.

Carvell and Joel Monaghan, love knows what's wrong with them this season but Carvell is a liabilty and J.Monaghan looks to have traded his petrol engine for a diesel.

Wood looks to have been taking way too long reading Rauhihi's training and playing regime

PS
ISWT
In smith we trust

Re: Great test for Tony : Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:42 pm  

TheDoc wrote:

We have too many average players and one or two that we have kept on too long

Simplistic nonsense. Ourplayers are plenty good enough and the errors are pretty random and not confined to just the oldest players. Picking two examples - bridge and Joel are neither average or too old but both had poor games today.

Re: Great test for Tony : Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:43 pm  

Not really. Must admit expected more from Waterhouse but I did from Matt King in his first 12 months. As for Chris Hill we are relying too much on a young man who was playing Championship rugby last season.

It's the J Monas, Carvell and Mylers who aren't producing and Hodgson is not as sharp as last season

We are back to a few seasons a go - if briers dosent play well we fall apart

Re: Great test for Tony : Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:44 pm  

SEB wrote:

Simplistic nonsense. Ourplayers are plenty good enough and the errors are pretty random and not confined to just the oldest players. Picking two examples - bridge and Joel are neither average or too old but both had poor games today.

And the other 15 ???

Re: Great test for Tony : Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:47 pm  

Horatio Yed wrote:

Players that will need replacing (this isn't about form or me singling them out just nature) are

Hodgson
Morley
Briers
Briers has probably another year in him

So we need to start slowly bringing through the youth so that they are ready for when these players go.

Carvell and Joel Monaghan, love knows what's wrong with them this season but Carvell is a liabilty and J.Monaghan looks to have traded his petrol engine for a diesel.

Wood looks to have been taking way too long reading Rauhihi's training and playing regime

PS
ISWT
In smith we trust

These players have been replaced Ratchford, Hill and O'Brien are the future in those positions