Re: Wakefield : Tue Sep 02, 2014 10:11 am  

I'd make 2 points on this:

1) It really is a confidence game and not many teams come back from 3 tries down early on in a game. We've suffered with that plenty of times ourselves. If you let a team get the better of you early on and take a decent lead then one team just gains confidence that they can keep scoring and the other starts to believe they can't get back into it. Only the mentally strongest teams tend to recover from that scenario, and Salford (like Wakefield) are not really one of those teams at this stage in their development.

2) I know Koukash has saved your club and brought some much needed character and publicity into the sport but his reaction again does your team no favours. This is the sort of statement that should be coming from the coach and not the owner IMO. Owners meddling in team affairs rarely works, that's why you have a coaching team. Dr Koukash should be bawling out Harris and letting him bawl out the team, otherwise he just undermines the coach and causes more harm than he solves.

Re: Wakefield : Tue Sep 02, 2014 10:22 am  

Derek Smalls wrote:

We were thoroughly outplayed yesterday, which (through gritted teeth) I can accept - it happens to the best of teams.

But when the other team is simply more up for it than our lot, in what was basically our cup final, well I find that hard to take.

We drove over with 4 young fans yesterday, none of which were older than 12. They must wonder what the hell they have done to deserve us dragging them there to watch that. Let's hope social services don't find out...

It could well be a pressure thing, did your players see it as their cup final? I never saw anything involving Wakey heaping pressure on the team or speccis, for me it was just another game, no pressure as it was gonna be difficult to make the 8.

Re: Wakefield : Tue Sep 02, 2014 11:18 am  

Fordy wrote:

...I know Koukash has saved your club and brought some much needed character and publicity into the sport but his reaction again does your team no favours. This is the sort of statement that should be coming from the coach and not the owner IMO. Owners meddling in team affairs rarely works, that's why you have a coaching team. Dr Koukash should be bawling out Harris and letting him bawl out the team, otherwise he just undermines the coach and causes more harm than he solves.

I couldn't agree more....

I love the fact that he's a fan and hurts like the rest of us and he is entitled to tweet about dissatisfaction etc, however, it's for the coach to decide who plays, stays or goes.

Unless of course, Marwan decides that he is now coach!!!!!!