I’ve calmed down now but some home truths need to be addressed. The club, from board room to playing staff is utterly clueless. Champagne tastes, lemonade pockets. Pay peanuts and you get monkeys. Let’s not kid ourselves, this is really worrying times and when 2 games into the season we are scrambling around for loan signings, the alarm bells should have been sounding loud and clear, but yet again, this new, transparent board kept silent. The new owners haven’t got a pot to slash in, we’ve got the biggest blagger / unqualified of a CEO in UK sport, we’ve got a coach that after a handful of games looks lost and players that look as unfit a bunch as I have seen! Enough is enough.
Finnegan really vague and contradictory on why Jewitt didn’t come back on - he said something like he’s OK (ie not injured) but then moaned about they ran out of subs...???
Perhaps giving Lee a message? In fact he should have hoiked the lot of them off to give them a message...😡
Looking again at Pats Prediction thread, we all thought Widnes would win this game.
But, after that lack lustre performance, I’m betting that there won’t be many predicting us to win against Batley.
I won’t be. Hope I’ll be proved wrong.
Looking again at Pats Prediction thread, we all thought Widnes would win this game.
The bookies thought so as well, giving Dewsbury 16 points start. I think we will probably be given 16 start by them at Batley.
I reckon the bookies will give us about 6 start at Batley, rightly or wrongly.
I wonder if those now criticising Finnegan's ability as a coach, the players commitment and fitness, the qualifications of the CEO and the ability of the board to manage the club, after two games and one loss, will give them some credit if we happen to win our next five games? Just a thought.
I wonder if those now criticising Finnegan’s ability as a coach, the players commitment and fitness, the qualifications of the CEO and the ability of the board to manage the club, after two games and one loss, will give them some credit if we happen to win our next five games? Just a thought.
If they deserve it- yes.
I wonder if those now criticising Finnegan’s ability as a coach, the players commitment and fitness, the qualifications of the CEO and the ability of the board to manage the club, after two games and one loss, will give them some credit if we happen to win our next five games? Just a thought.
Take em off Frank!
I wonder if those now criticising Finnegan’s ability as a coach, the players commitment and fitness, the qualifications of the CEO and the ability of the board to manage the club, after two games and one loss, will give them some credit if we happen to win our next five games? Just a thought.
Frank I admire your optimistic outlook ,the two games one loss statement even makes the pitiful draw against Newcastle sound like a positive.
Do you honestly see us winning all of our next 5 games . Given our current form I would be delighted with 3 but settle for 2 wins . Anything less than that , and I fear it could be, then we are in serious danger of relegation .
The Vicar
The fixtures for reference (assuming Toulouse away does not take place)
Batley (A)
Swinton (H)
York (H)
Whitehaven (H)
Oldham (A)
I would be very impressed if we won all five and am in agreement that if we can’t win at least three of them the outlook for the season is poor.
To be honest, I looked at Dewsbury (H), Batley (A) and Swinton (H) and anything less than three wins would be a worry...
I agree but that ship has now sailed. One point from the first two games is clearly a very bad start by any reckoning. Hopefully we can show it to be a blip and not the level we are going to keep performing to.
I wonder if those now criticising Finnegan’s ability as a coach, the players commitment and fitness, the qualifications of the CEO and the ability of the board to manage the club, after two games and one loss, will give them some credit if we happen to win our next five games? Just a thought.
Frank I admire your optimistic outlook ,the two games one loss statement even makes the pitiful draw against Newcastle sound like a positive. Do you honestly see us winning all of our next 5 games . Given our current form I would be delighted with 3 but settle for 2 wins . Anything less than that , and I fear it could be, then we are in serious danger of relegation . The Vicar
No I don't see five wins and agree we were lucky to get a draw against Newcastle, which was definitely not a positive. If the team plays like it did in the Dewsbury game, we may be lucky to win one or two games. With my rose-tinted glasses on and fingers crossed, I am hoping for a distinct improvement with hard fought wins against Batley and Swinton. These games will show whether the team and the manager can turn things around and set us up for the York game. I would then expect (and hope) for wins against Whitehaven and Oldham.
So could we win all five games - yes, a possibility, but we could equally lose all five games without the improvement needed in the team.
I think that the point that I was trying to make was that after two league games, some are damning the board, the coach and the players. Would these same complainers - including the perennial complainers - give credit for coming back from a disastrous start to the season?
Frank, the writing was on the wall before a ball was touched. A silent, skint board, a paper thin squad, couple that with a complete novice as a coach and it’s a recipe for disaster. I would love nothing more than us to go the rest of the season unbeaten, but from what I and many others have seen, is a team that simply isn’t fit, don’t look well coached and do not look like the can be arsed to tackle.