Jesus wept.
He's had a handful of games after a broken leg.What an embarrassing bunch some of us are.
Learned comment from The Don
Pramtown is consistent with his or her diatribe.
To be fair, kicking aside, Smith never takes the line on and seldom even gets near the line to even tease or confuse the defence. He used to do this often when with Wigan.
So, I hope we can put this down to him coming back from injury. Let's give him time. But I hope his present style isn't going to continue much longer.
All I'll say on the matter is you expect Smith to organise, and have a good kicking game, he's never going to be an all action half like Sean Long.
He's not a bad player, but he's out of form too
Matty is what we have signed, it is no great shock is it. Matty lacks pace and always has. On heavy grounds he is usually very good with his short kicking game. He has leadership skills and whilst we have signed him is a natural team captain. He will be ok with players with pace around him. Fages developing quickly is the key to Matty being effective. Effective is his bench mark.
Jack Owens, Matty Dawson, Peyroux and our former coach really bigging them up! That annoyed many of us being taken for fools by the club. I will cheer any lad giving his all if he is a squad filler, Fleming for instance I know he is not and will not be a centre of the calibre this club demands but he is quietly doing a job. Honesty and respect is what most fans want and Keiron "Gerald Ratner" Cunningham got that badly wrong.
If a player is giving his all for the shirt then that's fine by me. It's up to the coach to do the culling if they're not up to the job and I acknowledge that one or two are not. However, I think we're all guilty at times of having it in for certain players, to the point where we ignore the positive things they do but shout from the rooftops the bad things they do because it reinforces our preexisting views on them. That happens an awful lot on here.
Too many players out of form lately. Think the new coach needs to take a broom through the place!
Most of us are giving constructive criticism based more on game observation rather than individual personal dislike, every single person who wears that shirt deserves our full support despite there limitations. Some new recruited players have come to us with varying degrees of expectation by way of there experience, skill set or future development, when we see those expectations fall short on a regular basis then its the fans only response to make an opinion based on what the majority of fans are seeing on the pitch.
Jack Owen, Dom Peyroux, LMS, John Wilkin, Morgan Ryan and Matty Smith have divided opinion on there efforts and performances so far this season, I don't think any fan is primed to be critical of the players mentioned we want them to do well.
Given our recent turn around in form it does feel as though we are still hanging onto any negative we can. Rather than admitting it's a competitive league and we have positives to be thinking about.
Until we get a decent attacking structure in place that will always be the case, we have a decent defence but its our attack thats up and down like a fiddlers elbow that doesn't give us that air of positive confidence. We,ve got the players to promote it, but we know which players are playing below par.
I'm not too concerned with our actual structure as such. We've got Fages taking first receiver on the left a lot more and that enables us to shift the ball quicker than we were early in the season. We mix it up quite well when we're in good ball in terms of our shape. We've got three genuine middle unit forwards to staty the game and Wilkin playing right side back row will benefit us too. It's a subtle change from Long but it will help us over time. We've missed Lomax enormously because the other two lads are not consistent passing threats. It's become more and more obvious over the last few weeks and we've left a few tries out on the field, on both edges. It's put more pressure on the halves to create something because there's only ever a running threat from full back. Some teams can get away with it when you've got pace to burn but we don't really. Put Roby and Lomax in and all our ball players will have more time, it's tough being without two players in key positions.
What's disappointed me though is we haven't adapted to that well enough. We haven't been patient enough and we've tried to magic things out of nothing, it's why we've made so many errors. I'd like to think we'll make less errors with those two lads in the team because we can play differently but as I've said previously, we need to be smarter and that's what's let us down. Even against Wigan and Cas there were signs of it.
Steve Prescott MBE (1973-2013)
V
I think we can put to bed the myth that he was suffering from poor ball from Lee.
Last edited by markrvr; 13th May 2017 at 17:32. Reason: Autocorrect
Time to bring Richardson back into the 17, Matty isn't organising anything and keeps passing behind the player.
Surely Matty sh!t gets dropped now and Richardson gets another go?
What a waste of cap space. I fully expect history to be repeated and Matty Smith shipped out on loan long before his contract is up.