Re: Applegarth : Mon Aug 07, 2023 7:56 pm  

PopTart wrote:

That would mean you are not putting Griffin Whitbread or Tanginoa in either.

No it wouldn't, I believe they are capable of doing a good job, Lino's still not convinced me.

Re: Applegarth : Tue Aug 08, 2023 10:08 am  

PopTart wrote:

So who plays instead of Lino? Dagger or Kay? Neither of them are creators either.

And he's never going to win if he can't play the same winning team but has to change winning team

Dagger whoes done ok. what i dont get is why everybody loves lino he's average at best,all competative games he's played in he cant create anything, sl coaches are not dumb they put pressure on him (as hull did with gale) to upset his game .Also his defence aint great, he's lowon confidence and he's gonna struggle to find it this season everygames a must win

Re: Applegarth : Fri Aug 18, 2023 10:27 pm  

Statistically will go down as the worst coach Wakefield have ever had and the worst in Super League history. Even James Webster got more wins than him.

Re: Applegarth : Sat Aug 19, 2023 1:40 am  

18th Man wrote:

No it wouldn't, I believe they are capable of doing a good job, Lino's still not convinced me.

He has convinced me now... he's simply not good enough! Passes to the floor, dropped balls, missed tackles, too slow. Why does he get picked every week when Dagger is far better and can convert goals too?!

Re: Applegarth : Sat Aug 19, 2023 5:43 am  

Willzay wrote:

Statistically will go down as the worst coach Wakefield have ever had and the worst in Super League history. Even James Webster got more wins than him.

I don’t understand how he is still in a job this morning…..

Re: Applegarth : Sat Aug 19, 2023 6:21 am  

asmadasa wrote:

I don’t understand how he is still in a job this morning…..

The board are rotten and don't care about the future of the club

Re: Applegarth : Sat Aug 19, 2023 6:28 am  

Just wish so called fans would stop going on about Lino, think a lot of you must just use four letter words .After the friendly against Featherstone you could see we were in for a bad season ,we were overloaded with old men so bad and slow in every thing to do with rugby..Applegate as had chance to bring younger players in ,Croft, Kershaw, and a few more .they have gone well ,but the Coach is obsessed with old players and as soon as a old player was fit ,it was young player out,old player in.The spine of the team as been changed so many times by our Coach that Quasimodo as a better spine than we have got This shocking season is not down to one player it is down to a Coach who is a Academy Coach and it shows New Coach came in at Cas who had a good spine to the team and there Coach was good enough to get it to work

Re: Applegarth : Sat Aug 19, 2023 6:41 am  

The biggest weakness is in the centres because the majority of his signings have been forwards. We basically ran with just two experienced centres after swapping one for a full back before adding Croft. The two have both endured injury absences meaning we have been forced into our usual solution of using a forward.

Re: Applegarth : Sat Aug 19, 2023 7:42 am  

We managed to escape relegation last season but no lessons were learnt. Instead of making good signings and strengthening all areas of the squad. We went into this season with an even weaker squad, promoted a young inexperienced coach to manage it. Hey Presto ! here we are. It's far more than this or that player, it's the sum of everything.

Re: Applegarth : Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:04 am  

Prince Buster wrote:

We managed to escape relegation last season but no lessons were learnt. Instead of making good signings and strengthening all areas of the squad. We went into this season with an even weaker squad, promoted a young inexperienced coach to manage it. Hey Presto ! here we are. It's far more than this or that player, it's the sum of everything.

Very much so. I think most could see this coming but we're hoping we we're wrong. The pundits could see it, rival fans could see it, the only people who couldn't are the people who hired the coach and then didn't give him a fighting chance by giving him a poor squad to pick from, not that I have seen anything in our play that would suggest having better players would've have changed the outcome of this season.