Re: Where do we go from here : Thu Jun 15, 2023 5:14 pm  

[quote="LeedsLurch"]Serious question, who has RS actually signed. I know plenty in here are unhappy but what is the total he has spent? How much has he had his hands tied behind his back in terms of being able to spend and who could he have bought if he wasn't?[/quote]

forget who he has signed. it's how he coaches. he could have better players it wouldn't matter. how he wants to play is ridiculous. it doesn't work but he knows no other way and stubbornly keeps making the same wrong decisions

Re: Where do we go from here : Thu Jun 15, 2023 7:30 pm  

LeedsLurch wrote:

Serious question, who has RS actually signed. I know plenty in here are unhappy but what is the total he has spent? How much has he had his hands tied behind his back in terms of being able to spend and who could he have bought if he wasn't?

God knows who is making the decisions or has in last 3/4 years, sinfield, agar, GH , smith but we seem to be in a mess and it’s getting worse not better IMO as below indicates. He’s signed 4 players who can currently play at SL level but we’ve lost a lot more.

I can only guess we are still paying some of the players who have left ? I fear we have also recruited as much deadwood as we have exited.
IN 9
MacDonald
McDonnell
Lisone
Sangare
Olpherts
Hooley
Roberts
Ruan
Warren

OUT 13
Briscoe
Zak in and out
Broadbent
Dwyer
Leeming
Mellor
Mustapha
Prior
Sutcliffe
Bodene Thompson
Jack Walker
Levi Edwards
Oil Field

It does not add up to me. I may have forgotten someone.

Re: Where do we go from here : Fri Jun 16, 2023 4:40 am  

The team has no ability to sort problems in game.
We also have very few capable of pulling out game changing moments which means we lose more tight games than we should. Who've we got? Austin? Does his share but the lack of individual threat elsewhere means he's a marked man. Newman? Rarely fit and often kept quiet when he makes the field. Beyond that?
We need a McGuire, a Burrow, a Webb. Currently we don't even have a Dwyer.

Re: Where do we go from here : Fri Jun 16, 2023 9:06 am  

Clearwing wrote:

The team has no ability to sort problems in game.
We also have very few capable of pulling out game changing moments which means we lose more tight games than we should. Who've we got? Austin? Does his share but the lack of individual threat elsewhere means he's a marked man. Newman? Rarely fit and often kept quiet when he makes the field. Beyond that?
We need a McGuire, a Burrow, a Webb. Currently we don't even have a Dwyer.

Newman is a massive loss, he won us the game v Wigan with sheer brilliance at key times and the team then got on a roll, we have nobody else in the team who has is game breaking ability and that tells you all you need to know about recent recruitment. A lot of the signings made by Smith have one eye on tomorrow but we're seriously lacking in the today.

Re: Where do we go from here : Fri Jun 16, 2023 9:27 am  

The team has no leadership on the field. Sinfield was respected by all his peers and when he led the team followed. There were plenty of times when things weren't going according to plan but they managed to turn things around - this team just crumbled.

It did help the golden generation that they had an inner belief they could beat anybody due to quality and belief available. This team has no cohesion and seemingly no respect for each other - they don't play as a team.

Re: Where do we go from here : Fri Jun 16, 2023 9:42 am  

Trebor1 wrote:

Newman is a massive loss, he won us the game v Wigan with sheer brilliance at key times and the team then got on a roll, we have nobody else in the team who has is game breaking ability and that tells you all you need to know about recent recruitment. A lot of the signings made by Smith have one eye on tomorrow but we're seriously lacking in the today.

Not completely true, McDonald has shown he can change a game, lots of tackle busts and numerous line breaks out of nothing

Re: Where do we go from here : Fri Jun 16, 2023 9:44 am  

Zoo Zoo Boom wrote:

The team has no leadership on the field. Sinfield was respected by all his peers and when he led the team followed. There were plenty of times when things weren't going according to plan but they managed to turn things around - this team just crumbled.

It did help the golden generation that they had an inner belief they could beat anybody due to quality and belief available. This team has no cohesion and seemingly no respect for each other - they don't play as a team.

It wasnt just Sinfield, there was multiple leaders. This team has leaders in the group but none anywhere close enough to replicating the golden gen. The team has shown it has leaders when we are playing well, but struggles to show them when the team is falling behind.

Re: Where do we go from here : Fri Jun 16, 2023 10:03 am  

leedsbarmyarmy wrote:

Not completely true, McDonald has shown he can change a game, lots of tackle busts and numerous line breaks out of nothing

He's nowhere near Newman's class but yes he's probably one of the better backs we have, just not showed it much as yet

Re: Where do we go from here : Fri Jun 16, 2023 10:06 am  

Zoo Zoo Boom wrote:

The team has no leadership on the field. Sinfield was respected by all his peers and when he led the team followed. There were plenty of times when things weren't going according to plan but they managed to turn things around - this team just crumbled.

It did help the golden generation that they had an inner belief they could beat anybody due to quality and belief available. This team has no cohesion and seemingly no respect for each other - they don't play as a team.

Absolutely correct, but we also Had JP, Mags, JJB, Burrow, Webb, Kylie L, lads who just knew how to lead and win games and were tough as hell. Game winners all across the park like Donald, Ali, Hall, Watkins, Zak... the list goes on..

Re: Where do we go from here : Fri Jun 16, 2023 10:11 am  

leedsbarmyarmy wrote:

It wasnt just Sinfield, there was multiple leaders. This team has leaders in the group but none anywhere close enough to replicating the golden gen. The team has shown it has leaders when we are playing well, but struggles to show them when the team is falling behind.

In any team/organisation there is always one person who has to take the final decision he is the ultimate leader - that was Sinfield. He decided and the other supported his decisions.

This team has no leader - they emerge when the going gets tough not when its all going great.