Re: Thank you Mr Applegarth : Sat Sep 09, 2023 9:12 pm  

Redscat wrote:

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Persistently play Proctor when it was obvious that he was not performing was surely down to Mash and similarly with Atoni. What do we have an A team for?

If you have a problem and no one else can help, and if you can find them, you could hire the A team!
Showing my age!

Re: Thank you Mr Applegarth : Sat Sep 09, 2023 9:23 pm  

Willzay wrote:

For relegating your home town team at the first time of asking.

Crass. What have YOU done Willzay to keep it in SL? Whine & moan - shyster!

Re: Thank you Mr Applegarth : Sat Sep 09, 2023 9:30 pm  

Oh look the know it all pr!ck who only comes on here to give “advice” because it’s team is doing well. If you think Applegarth is a good coach get on the phone to Derek to give him a job.

Re: Thank you Mr Applegarth : Sat Sep 09, 2023 10:00 pm  

phe13 wrote:

If you have a problem and no one else can help, and if you can find them, you could hire the A team!
Showing my age!

Put a bit of bling on the big bopper and you have Mr T.

Re: Thank you Mr Applegarth : Sat Sep 09, 2023 10:05 pm  

Won'tzay -you didn't even attempt to answer the question. So let's suppose that the answer would have been "Sweet Fanny Adams".

Re: Thank you Mr Applegarth : Sat Sep 09, 2023 11:30 pm  

Bent&Bongser wrote:

Won'tzay -you didn't even attempt to answer the question. So let's suppose that the answer would have been "Sweet Fanny Adams".

To be honest you do come across as a grade ‘A’ prat. It’s nowt to do with you. Feel free to disappear back down the hole you crawled out of last season.

Re: Thank you Mr Applegarth : Sun Sep 10, 2023 7:49 am  

PopTart wrote:

But that's the problem.
The squad on paper was OK but big players weren't available for much of it like Jowitt and Tanginoa and some just didn't perform like Proctor and Atoni.
That isn't Mash.

He has other things to carry blame for but no coach can solve those two things 1and for a team with small squad like ours, that is massive.

Correct the team on paper was ok ,but have under performed spectacularly, no heart no desire no passion or pride for the shirt , just players going through the motions and a coach who has been happy to let this happen instead of wielding the axe . Would we have been any worse without our overseas contingent ,I’d say no yet they were still put into the team week in week out ,when it was plain for all to see that they were unfit for purpose . All academic now as we are on our way down but I honestly feel if Brian Smith had been given the time and resources we would have been looking at a far more competitive team than the one that has got us relegated without so much as a whimper , the word embarrassment springs to mind watching our great club bow out of super league in such spectacular fashion (sarcasm)

Re: Thank you Mr Applegarth : Sun Sep 10, 2023 9:02 am  

Kettykat wrote:

Correct the team on paper was ok ,but have under performed spectacularly, no heart no desire no passion or pride for the shirt , just players going through the motions and a coach who has been happy to let this happen instead of wielding the axe . Would we have been any worse without our overseas contingent ,I’d say no yet they were still put into the team week in week out ,when it was plain for all to see that they were unfit for purpose . All academic now as we are on our way down but I honestly feel if Brian Smith had been given the time and resources we would have been looking at a far more competitive team than the one that has got us relegated without so much as a whimper , the word embarrassment springs to mind watching our great club bow out of super league in such spectacular fashion (sarcasm)

You are right the team on paper did look ok , for most there was just the problem that age had overtook most of them .The team on paper would have gone well in S L, 4 year ago ,but now no speed in legs ,more chance of been injured , as turned the team in to what we are now a championship team ,And at present not a very good one

Re: Thank you Mr Applegarth : Sun Sep 10, 2023 9:09 am  

In the case I’d proctor most definitely ,time has caught up with him spectacularly, but I’d argue that it’s not the age but attitude and passion and lack of outright skill are more of a factor in our players poor performances than age ever has done

Re: Thank you Mr Applegarth : Sun Sep 10, 2023 5:17 pm  

I’m sure I saw an interview with M A saying he hoped to have Bowden and Whitbread back, and hopefully Dave will be ok. Doesn’t he know he’s gone.