"Sacking the coach not on the agenda" - Hood : Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:12 am  

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: Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:15 am  

Is it just me, or has Hood taken over from Macca with the "there were positives" quote?

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:17 am  

at least his dad has come out and defended him but i will be interested to see what is said this afternoon. maybe he will get grounded or something.

My opinoin is that he should go with Ellery Hanley replacing him and i think 2 more loses and that will happen.

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:20 am  

Noticed him make reference to our first half performances. Now good first half performances are all well and good but if they fall to pieces in the 2nd half what good does a good 1st 40 minutes do us?

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:33 am  

Roofaldo wrote:

Noticed him make reference to our first half performances. Now good first half performances are all well and good but if they fall to pieces in the 2nd half what good does a good 1st 40 minutes do us?

Well, none, Sherlock. But he never said it did, did he?

And the humiliating collapse doesn't alter the fact of the good first 45 minutes performance, and when we certainly have a big problem in the side, it won't help to fix it to pretend that we either can't play, or played crap all game.

The obvious question for any side is, is it intrinsically a useless side that can't play, or is it a side with good players who can play? I'd say that the answer to that question is absolutely key in what you do to address the problems. Shouting down Hood in a "Na na na I don't want to hear it" unctuous rage for providing a correct analysis, now that's what I call pointless.

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:41 am  

DILLIGAF wrote:

Is it just me, or has Hood taken over from Macca with the "there were positives" quote?

While at the end if you were like me you feel about as bad as it gets, do you really believe that there were no positives?

If Menzies hadn't been held just short in the last minute, but had reached out for the match winner, we'd have all gone home reasonably happy, if scratching our heads at a bewildering performance, wouldn't we?

Some people are too emotive, and this applies to many fans. You may not want to hear an accurate analysis of the game, and you may for some reason prefer to strike out from your consciousness all the good things we did in the game, and pretend the disastrous collapse is all there was, but it wasn't, and Hood rightly is not going to have a fit of pique and throw out the baby with the bathwater.

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:52 am  

I just wish folk would realise that Hood was never going to and is not going to sack Macca and his team. I hate to keep saying it, but even if he was minded to the club could likely not afford it and the probable much higher costs of the replacement coaching team.

If he was a Simon Moran maybe it would be different - although I suspect in that case we'd see a Director of Rugby appear to take a lot of the load of Macca. Maybe that is on the cards for next season. I dunno. What is clear is that there are so few people now at the club that we must have very limited scope for changes.

No matter how much shouting and screaming there is, and no matter how many sanctimonious missionaries return as a public duty to put the club right, it just isn't going to happen.

Quite what that means for the fans who are exasperated by whats happened I don't know. I'll just go along and support the team regardless, and live in hope that the performances improve. If those guys can just stop collapsing as soon as the pressure goes on, they will.

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:12 am  

Adeybull wrote:

I just wish folk would realise that Hood was never going to and is not going to sack Macca and his team. I hate to keep saying it, but even if he was minded to the club could likely not afford it and the probable much higher costs of the replacement coaching team.

I disagree. if things continue there will be no option. I don't know how much it would cost to pay them off, but a few thousand off the gate times £15-20 each will soon stack up.

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:14 am  

tigertot wrote:

I disagree. if things continue there will be no option. I don't know how much it would cost to pay them off, but a few thousand off the gate times £15-20 each will soon stack up.

Don't tell me you've now joined the ranks of those who think that sacking the coach is a cure-all which will immediately and with certainty transform our fortunes, win the league, and have said thousands clamouring to get in?

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:15 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

While at the end if you were like me you feel about as bad as it gets, do you really believe that there were no positives?

Not at all. Up to 26-0, there is no doubt there were loads of them.

The comment wasn't designed to suggest there were no positives, just that I'm getting a little bored of hearing the same statement every week.