As a club is anyone clear what the long term plan is? Are we happy just struggling to compete towards the top end of the Championship or is there a plan to build towards challenging etc?
We are probably the second best supported team in the league at least prior to this season. Yet we can’t compete with someone like Featherstone?
Just becoming depressing and you can see why the crowd are falling…
Where are we going? Nowhere.
Today was the most bored I’ve ever been at a game. Poor team, poor coaching, poor recruitment and a poor crowd. Just felt sad. Million miles off being a good Championship club, never mind thinking about Super League.
As a club is anyone clear what the long term plan is? Are we happy just struggling to compete towards the top end of the Championship or is there a plan to build towards challenging etc?
We are probably the second best supported team in the league at least prior to this season. Yet we can’t compete with someone like Featherstone?
Just becoming depressing and you can see why the crowd are falling…
The plan is to fudging tick along mate.. the longer this Muppet of a coach is in charge it will be loss after loss.. do we even have a board? The silence from these tools is defening.
@viking25 glad I was on holiday for this farce.. those words are exactly how I feel.. bloody depressing
Just making up the numbers and fulfilling the fixture list.
Just making up the numbers and fulfilling the fixture list.
Thing is sinny this breaks my heart! When are things ever gonna change? Which just go from one disaster to the next.
Attendances for the first two games were good. Today it was shocking from the North to see how empty the South was, can't have been more than 500. No attendance I can see was announced?
Good job we won the opening 4. We are heading for another bottom half finish.
The board need to be asking questions of both the coach and CEO. They have collaboratively put this squad together. Whether they can/can afford to act in terms of a new coach remains to be seen.
It's sad.
Delta it is shocking the passion is losing in the Town, as our rugby team is an embarrassment. 2nd best supported club and us and Bradford the biggest clubs in the league. But small clubs like Batley will turn us over and time for Finnigan to pack his bags. 🥖🥖🥖
Delta it is shocking the passion is losing in the Town, as our rugby team is an embarrassment. 2nd best supported club and us and Bradford the biggest clubs in the league. But small clubs like Batley will turn us over and time for Finnigan to pack his bags. 🥖🥖🥖
It's ok Pascal the club are more concerned with doing stupid marketing gimmicks with Liverpool and Everton shirts.. rotten to the core this bastard club of ours.. get the board out!!!
North stand looked under half full and noticed a lot leaving after Leigh’s final try (not a dig btw) but who can blame speccies for finding other (dare I say it) ‘more enjoyable’ things to do?
Loyalty will only take you so far (as too will “we saved our club”)… season tickets sales, certain matches you miss, what’s the point in the end when it’s just not gratifying and you don’t see a return on your investment (match days cost a fortune these days with transport, dinner, match tickets, food and drink in the ground)… and it’s just boring, depressing fare being served up.
I’ve been there for the “low” of being crammed in the west stand end when we were playing diabolically and Naughton Park was being demolished, to the highs of Neil Kelly and that first night v Saints in SL to the lows of Happy Frank and then to the elation of “Not making up the numbers” talk to the very low of matches being stopped as we didn’t know we had a club… but this feels like terminal decline, not in the sense of we’ll fold but more “meh” it’s no longer for me and I’ll just look out for the scores in SkySports App. Very sad and very depressing. 😔
Todays score wasn’t actually as bad as I feared it would be, nevertheless still a bit of a hiding in the end.
That said, we were missing Owens, Craven, Brown, Dupree, Grady, Spedding / that’s at least 6 of our starting team and some key players.
we do look totally clueless when we are attacking the opposition line (this is where we miss DC and JO) Smith is well past his sell by date and Lyons just not good enough for me.
As has been said it looks like mid table mediocrity in this league for the foreseeable, with your Batley’s/Barrow’s and Whitehaven’s finishing in similar, if not higher positions.
re: atmosphere thought it was half decent for the first time in a while for spells when we were competing in the first half and was great when the PDRL game was played at HT - from both sets of fans.
Leigh and Fev are miles better than anyone else in this division and we were totally outclassed in the end today - I’m afraid a real hammering could be on the cards at Post Office Road in a fortnights time.
Wasn’t really expecting anything other than a fairly heavy defeat yesterday. Far more concerning was the fall in interest and attendance which really comes down to people being put off by losing at home to Barrow and getting beaten by a rank average Newcastle side that is unlikely to make the play offs. 3 of our next 4 games are winnable (without being easy). The club should be focused on bouncing back against Batley and scrapping for a top six spot.
£22 yesterday as well, seems a bit much for a walk up to a game where we were heavy underdogs.
I also think the dire quality of attacking play from us in recent weeks has not helped. We are so predictable, backs take in some one man drives. Then a couple of side to side shuffles. Then Smith gets the ball and kicks across field. Repeat.
I agree a play-off place is there for the taking. But not without dramatic improvement or dramatic change in the coaching/half-backs.
Agree completely about the predictability. Smith tried the same kick on the last tackle repeatedly yesterday and with the exception of when Fleming just failed to get over the line Leigh dealt with them comfortably. Three tries in the last three matches all scored by Adam Lawton starkly underlines just how little the halfbacks are creating. With Craven out for several weeks there doesn’t seem an obvious fix to the situation either.
@mt As daft as it may sound James did suggest during the commentary yesterday, that we could do no worse than try Lawton at stand-off. Alternatively, are we looking at players at SL clubs or maybe even France and Australia, who are not getting games and unlikely to get another contract, who may come for the rest of the season. Something needs to be done to strengthen the squad and two week loans are not the answer.