Re: Chester must go now : Fri Sep 04, 2020 5:53 am  

PopTart wrote:

Was Smith a good coach last week because he was on a long losing streak then.

It does show that previous form does not dictate form forever. We can turn it around if we stick at it.

Against Saints they gave it a good go and were playing attractive rugby, they were unlucky with basic errors but their play was streets ahead of ours.
They built on that performance, culminating in what happened yesterday.
Smith's post match interview was upbeat and refreshing, a total contrast from our post match or even pre match interviews.

Re: Chester must go now : Fri Sep 04, 2020 7:01 am  

FickleFingerOfFate wrote:

Against Saints they gave it a good go and were playing attractive rugby, they were unlucky with basic errors but their play was streets ahead of ours.
They built on that performance, culminating in what happened yesterday.
Smith's post match interview was upbeat and refreshing, a total contrast from our post match or even pre match interviews.

To say you’re twisting the narrative to suit your argument would be a huge understatement but that’ I suppose is what people do when they get frustrated.

This season we were hugely unlucky against Hull and Wigan but I suppose that doesn’t count.

You need to take off you extra thick rose tinted specs if you think HKR are playing RL that’s streets ahead of us, they are not. They don’t have the worst injury crisis in the game.

Smith being positive, doesn’t happen much, now why would he suddenly be happy after his first win in yonks? I just can’t work it out, can anyone help?

Re: Chester must go now : Fri Sep 04, 2020 7:08 am  

PopTart wrote:

Was Smith a good coach last week because he was on a long losing streak then.

It does show that previous form does not dictate form forever. We can turn it around if we stick at it.

In fairness, they've been competitive in large parts of all of their post lockdown games and well in each of those games for the first half
Smith is a decent coach and has gone with a generally younger squad, which looked very, very risky last season.
They are not world beaters and probably benefitted from Wigan resting a few of their own squad.
However, they have turned up, ready to play, something that we just haven't done this season.

A brave comeback after getting caned in the first half isn't good enough.

I was impressed with Abdul and Hadley both of whom must have been "available" over the last 12 months.
His kicking game alone is head and shoulders above anything we've managed without Brough.

Re: Chester must go now : Fri Sep 04, 2020 7:22 am  

vastman wrote:

They don’t have the worst injury crisis in the game.

Neither do Wakefield, that dubious honour goes to Huddersfield at the moment

Re: Chester must go now : Fri Sep 04, 2020 8:47 am  

Egg Banjo wrote:

Neither do Wakefield, that dubious honour goes to Huddersfield at the moment

Of course you wont have noticed that we had the most until Shudds played last week.........
And then we picked up a few more......

Re: Chester must go now : Fri Sep 04, 2020 9:05 am  

vastman wrote:

To say you’re twisting the narrative to suit your argument would be a huge understatement but that’ I suppose is what people do when they get frustrated.

This season we were hugely unlucky against Hull and Wigan but I suppose that doesn’t count.

You need to take off you extra thick rose tinted specs if you think HKR are playing RL that’s streets ahead of us, they are not. They don’t have the worst injury crisis in the game.

Smith being positive, doesn’t happen much, now why would he suddenly be happy after his first win in yonks? I just can’t work it out, can anyone help?

You may think I need to take the tinted specs off but I think you just need to start wearing some specs, if you can't see that there's been no improvement on structure or putting on moves.
I can bet that even when Smith isn't in front of the cameras, he's positive and makes players that aren't as talented as what we've got,believe in themselves.
Take for instance George King, I was underwhelmed with his signing but people said he was going to be the next big thing. At Wakey he's not been used properly, I expect him to be used correctly and given a specific role at HKR and let's see what he does.

Re: Chester must go now : Fri Sep 04, 2020 9:23 am  

wrencat1873 wrote:

I was impressed with Abdul and Hadley both of whom must have been "available" over the last 12 months.
His kicking game alone is head and shoulders above anything we've managed without Brough.

Both the aforementioned above were known to prefer to be in Hull unless ridiculous offers came in. I doubt we could match Hull KR's let alone better it.

Re: Chester must go now : Fri Sep 04, 2020 9:32 am  

FickleFingerOfFate wrote:

Take for instance George King, I was underwhelmed with his signing but people said he was going to be the next big thing. At Wakey he's not been used properly, I expect him to be used correctly and given a specific role at HKR and let's see what he does.

You make a very good point there,

Re: Chester must go now : Fri Sep 04, 2020 9:58 am  

Has King officially signed yet?

Re: Chester must go now : Fri Sep 04, 2020 10:10 am  

Vast man any chance H K R lack of injury is down to better coaching