Re: v WIDNES (a) : Sun Feb 16, 2014 6:47 pm  

I don't think that many of us went expecting a win, but I hoped for a little closer game. It was sad to see many of the young heads go down, though a few of them did raise their game. Could not understand the amount of time Moore was not on the pitch, it seemed clear he not injured.

Not the best advertisement for next Saturday, as everyone has said we need some experience on the pitch, the local media are giving us good coverage so far, if local people see the result, it will not encourage to come along, all the media and PR in the world will not bring them in to see us getting beaten! From what I hear Salford will not be a walk over and easy for us, we have got to lift out game a lot.

I know it is still early, but I would have been more happy if Tony R had moved upstairs as CEO, just my opinion, think many got carried away with the few wins he put together at the end of 2012!

Re: v WIDNES (a) : Sun Feb 16, 2014 7:13 pm  

jaybs wrote:

I would have been more happy if Tony R had moved upstairs as CEO

Given the useless twonk officially in charge I imagine Rea is already de facto CEO.

Re: v WIDNES (a) : Sun Feb 16, 2014 7:13 pm  

London coach Tony Rea selected nine new faces, including prop Carl Forster - on loan from St Helens - having lost the bulk of last year's squad.

"I am happy to be on the start line but this is a big learning curve," Rea said.

"We clearly weren't ready, but need to move on from here.

"I will take a fair lump of the blame, but there has been a lot of chopping and changing.

"We will be adding to the squad, but these players can do better.

"Kevin Brown was outstanding for Widnes, and if he hadn't played it would have been a tight game. He was that big an influence.

"Our hookers were pretty strong, but our half-backs were outplayed.

"We have the potential and will be smarter than this in future."

Re: v WIDNES (a) : Sun Feb 16, 2014 7:18 pm  

wire quin wrote:

Dixons out for months with a "bad" knee

Is that "bad" knee a "Koukash transfer request" knee?

Re: v WIDNES (a) : Sun Feb 16, 2014 7:28 pm  

Well I see Tony' is working on the Half-Back's confidence already, lmao! Tonked by over half a ton and it's those twos' fault! C'mon!!!!!!!!Really???

I still believe we WILL come good, but we need some more bruisers up front and some experience in the backs.

We are NOT DOOMED until the fat biatch starts scritchin'!!!

Re: v WIDNES (a) : Sun Feb 16, 2014 7:30 pm  

Does anyone know whether the club has any more spots left for an overseas purchase?

Obviously the London halves need bolstering (I assume that Rea will play Ben Farrar at No. 6), as do the forwards.

After watching most of the Auckland Nines I am sure that there is some great young talent that could be bought cheaply from among the Under 20s or the fringe NRL squad members Down Under. The question is whether there is an import spot still free ....and whether Tony Rea was even watching the tournament (Rugby Union was boasting beforehand that they were scouting the tournament).

Re: v WIDNES (a) : Sun Feb 16, 2014 7:32 pm  

We shouldn't panic! After all...Widnes are TOP of the league!

Re: v WIDNES (a) : Sun Feb 16, 2014 7:48 pm  

Its 4 weeks since Solomona was 'signed' http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/25776281 Are they handwriting these visa's? By the time Leary, Solomona, and Farrar get here and Slyney gets fit we will be too far behind the teams we will have to catch. Bradford still have enough good players to get some wins as do Wakey who now have Sammut. I hope the club are well advanced with the 4/5 TR says he still hopes to sign and they all have english mothers/fathers. Weren't there a couple of experienced props at Catalans who weren't retained?

Its 4 weeks since Solomona was 'signed' http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/25776281 Are they handwriting these visa's? By the time Leary, Solomona, and Farrar get here and Slyney gets fit we will be too far behind the teams we will have to catch. Bradford still have enough good players to get some wins as do Wakey who now have Sammut. I hope the club are well advanced with the 4/5 TR says he still hopes to sign and they all have english mothers/fathers. Weren't there a couple of experienced props at Catalans who weren't retained?

Re: v WIDNES (a) : Sun Feb 16, 2014 8:47 pm  

jaybs wrote:

I know it is still early,

Widnes will finish between 9th and 12th.......we were spanked by one of the 5 teams we need to take points off to stand a snowballs.......it is slightly more worrying than "being early in the season". Salford will look to stick 50 on us.....when will it stop being "early"?

jaybs wrote:

but I would have been more happy if Tony R had moved upstairs as CEO,

I would question the sanity of anyone willing to step up to the plate to face the fiasco that the incumbent has created in just 3 short years.....

jaybs wrote:

just my opinion,

Which in my opinion isn't worth the virtual paper it is written on......see, we all have one! You apologise for pretty much everything at the club whilst I get attacked for pointing out the obvious and gaping holes in this plan for a brave new dawn........not your fault by the way, just indicative of the grasp on reality the remaining few seem to have when it comes to the Broncos.

jaybs wrote:

think many got carried away with the few wins he put together at the end of 2012!

The only person who should have got carried away is David Hughes. If he's left us to flounder when Lenengan was told to walk, we'd have been propped up by the RFL.......now we are only costing them a small bribe (SORRY, MARKETING BUDGET) to AK to keep us going until we slip off the radar in 2015 and become "someone else's" problem.

I get it by the way, the past is the past......but with the same owner, CEO and Owners mate training us as we've had for close to 2 years now, I'm stunned that anyone on here expected anything to change.

Re: v WIDNES (a) : Sun Feb 16, 2014 9:07 pm  

wire quin wrote:

London coach Tony Rea selected nine new faces, including prop Carl Forster - on loan from St Helens - having lost the bulk of last year's squad.

"I am happy to be on the start line but this is a big learning curve," Rea said.

"We clearly weren't ready, but need to move on from here.

"I will take a fair lump of the blame, but there has been a lot of chopping and changing.

"We will be adding to the squad, but these players can do better.

"Kevin Brown was outstanding for Widnes, and if he hadn't played it would have been a tight game. He was that big an influence.

"Our hookers were pretty strong, but our half-backs were outplayed.

"We have the potential and will be smarter than this in future."

With all due respect to him for what he's facing he is talking out of his backside if he thinks Kev Brown was the only real difference between the teams. We were at a canter and whilst he was our MOM there were a good few difference makers like Tickle and Mellor and a general feeling that if you upped your game, we could've upped ours a lot more than we did. It was like a friendly.

Still the man has a real uphill battle right now so maybe he's not looking to be too honest about the reality of the situation which I can understand.