Dear Mr L,
I do not know what game you were watching but the game that I watched was utterly appalling. The players managed to show sparks of enthusiasm but generally were convincingly beaten. Poor Harry Smith was lost because of your decision to play his senior partner at fullback, you are ruining his confidence whilst blunting our main threat in attack.
I hope that your refusal to play Hanley in his preferred position is out of a desire to protect him from the s***storm that will be coming the way of some of the youngsters after the recent run of games. Not one young player has improved since last season and now they all look burned out. The only real spark of hope was the performance of Kai Pierce-Paul who will grow into a fine SuperLeague player.
The forwards are too small and inexperienced to play the role assigned to them because of poor recruitment of senior players. Tonight we had one real go forward prop playing, not because of injury but because of our inability to improve on those who we have let go. Wells would look a leader in our present team. When we did attempt to strengthen we could have picked up several battle hardened veterans but we tried to fix the problems with a single injured superstar. Now we need plan B.
The lack of any kind of go forward is killing us. Whilst I know that money is tight I hope that we have the vision to rectify the problems especially since for next year we are going to need to bolster our squad to enable us to play a reserve team. Ideally several of our starting squad will be playing in it.
