Re: RD 7 | Warrington Wolves (H) : Fri Apr 05, 2024 9:31 pm  

That`s got to be one of the worse performances I`ve seen since erm last season.
When you think apart from 2 or 3 players that was our first 17 out there.
We missed Bentley for sure who would have tightened the defence.
Handley and Holroyd going off didn`t help.
But Warrington had half their pack missing and still out played us.
Williams had all the time in the world to orchestrate and what I felt is a slightly above average Warrington they outplayed us in every position on our own patch.
Plenty to work on for a week or so and a couple of winnable games ahead.
Time is ticking.

Re: RD 7 | Warrington Wolves (H) : Fri Apr 05, 2024 9:39 pm  

rollin thunder wrote:

We have little chance of making the top 4 already and doubt we will make the Top 6 either, tonight was a bitter defeat all their trys were easy soft efforts to concede

Agreed. Wire were ok. They had to do nothing more than run with intent. Play the majority of the game in your own 30, never mind own half, and the result is pretty much nailed on. When we did have the ball we had no real idea, very little go forward (lots of lateral movement though, again) and certainly no depth to the attack.

Re: RD 7 | Warrington Wolves (H) : Fri Apr 05, 2024 9:43 pm  

I like Rohan and how he put belief in the team in 2021 but we haven't improved on last year and pre-season doesn't look to have achieved much. Miller needs to knuckle down in defence or leave. Cam Smith needs to speed up or be a prop. 1 good pass every 5 weeks isn't enough.
Rohan needs to get the spine playing together within the next 2 weeks or I think he might be in trouble.
It's awful watching Leeds at the moment. We can only score from kicks, interceptions or Handley from long distance.

Re: RD 7 | Warrington Wolves (H) : Fri Apr 05, 2024 9:47 pm  

HucknallLoiner wrote:

I like Rohan and how he put belief in the team in 2021 but we haven't improved on last year and pre-season doesn't look to have achieved much. Miller needs to knuckle down in defence or leave. Cam Smith needs to speed up or be a prop. 1 good pass every 5 weeks isn't enough.
Rohan needs to get the spine playing together within the next 2 weeks or I think he might be in trouble.
It's awful watching Leeds at the moment. We can only score from kicks, interceptions or Handley from long distance.

Don`t think we will be seeing Miller leave.
Where will he go!?
Fitzgibbon is also the sort of second rower we needed but once again lost out to Wire.

Re: RD 7 | Warrington Wolves (H) : Fri Apr 05, 2024 9:58 pm  

We could very well win the next 2. But I think it’s 6th at best for us, maybe with huge improvements we might get 5th. I said at start of season anything less than top 4 imo is a failure by Smith. I’m just not convinced by his coaching whatsoever. It’s the same stuff being dished up week after week since start of last season. You can clearly see his coaching impact now.

We were totally flat right from the start, getting knocked off tackles left right n centre. We just look very very average and soft as hell. I think the roster is better than what we’re seeing but Smith isn’t getting a tune from the squad he’s put together.. next 4 or 5 games are huge.

Re: RD 7 | Warrington Wolves (H) : Fri Apr 05, 2024 9:59 pm  

chapylad wrote:

Don`t think we will be seeing Miller leave.
Where will he go!?
Fitzgibbon is also the sort of second rower we needed but once again lost out to Wire.

If he doesn't leave he needs to grow a pair. His last game for the Knights worried me but I put it down as a one off.

Really don't know where we go without a big mid season signing.

Re: RD 7 | Warrington Wolves (H) : Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:16 pm  

Have to be honest, the new players are under performing. Salford must be laughing al the way to the bank. Croft and Ackers are pretty underwhelming. Mom is average. Frawley just needs to buy a ticket back to Oz. He is utter poop. We are 4 players short of a decentish squad. A proper half back, centre, hard prop and ball playing 13. C Smith has looked average at best this season.
Our tackling is shoddy as ever. Wire put us to ground on virtually every play. Mostly on our backs. We just tickle them in defence.

Such a disappointment when there was real promise with the signings.

Re: RD 7 | Warrington Wolves (H) : Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:31 pm  

Croft and Ackers are quality players. The fact they look poor for us lies with the Coach. He should have have gone last season.

Re: RD 7 | Warrington Wolves (H) : Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:43 pm  

We have no props that would get into any of the top 5. You can have all the backs you want just like in the early 90's, but without the forwards to make yardage and dominate the opposition the backs are a waste of money.

This will be another long season with or without smith until we recruit 2 good hard props.

Re: RD 7 | Warrington Wolves (H) : Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:55 pm  

Thought McDonnell was very good again and O’Connor, but I’d struggle to pick anyone else out for much praise tonight.

Errors again (do my head in).

Almost comical when we got into good ball for a rare time in the first half: we had a set play for once off the scrum and completely muffed it.

Tough result to take at home that one. Pressure is certainly mounting on Smith. Luckily we have 2 weeks to regroup and try to put things together for some vital winnable fixtures.