All we saw today was a series of shots of him looking utterly confused. We saw the half time being led by Louie McCarthy Scarsbrook with Woolf looking very confused. We saw Jack Welsbly, bless him, being destroyed again and having his confidence further eroded. There are tons of options for that centre spot, picking an actual centre from the academy is one, another is playing a more senior player out of position. We conceeded four tries down Welsby's channel and all of them contributed to either directly by Welsby's inability to tackle or by other players over compensating for their lack of trust in him and not doing the right things. Yet all Woolf did was look confused, as if he was surprised by it. He did nothing, leaving him there to suffer all game.
Sometimes in sport there are teams that have a certain way of playing and a certain culture. After the dour years of Brown, Simmonds and Cunningham, Holhrook just got it. He spent the time getting to know the club and the town and the history of the place. He changed the club from top to bottom, putting back what made us great. Woolf has come over with his cocky smirk and arrogant mannerisms and seems to believe he can just copy and paste a generic NRL formula into place and we'll walk this pathetic English league. He seems completely and utterly out of his depth. He's never coached a first grade team and it's showing. A couple of great wins as Tonga coach and we've given him a role he's not capable of undertaking. When you've not got Jason Taumalolo and his 20 stone friends fired up to play for their country you actually have to think.
Although events in the country look like they might cause a massive disruption to the season if things develop this week, it isn't looking good for us. I can't see where another away win is going to come from this season and the top two already looks beyond us, especially if we're hammered next week by Leeds which looks inevitable.
I feel daft for suggesting Woolf isn't going to be a success at this stage of the season, but there has just been no signs of life from the team at all. If we could see the potential in his way of playing and it just wasn't quite clicking then fine, but there is just nothing to be positive about. How long do you leave it before you finally admit it's not going to work? Is Woolf man enough to admit it's not and change things?