Re: Tonight’s game v Catalan : Fri Aug 04, 2023 10:57 pm  

Gazwire wrote:

I honestly think players who come here perceive us as the equivalent of a Major League Soccer Club where players can get well paid and wind down their careers. If they don't arrive with that mindset, they soon change into the Warrington Wolves Status Quo.

I'm worried about Williams as well who looked totally exasperated in that interview. Quality players have been arriving here for years and most get progressively worse during their stay with few maintaining their form.

We seem to have all the gear but no idea.

When Carney was asking him what’s gone wrong at the club I wish he could have just said and not use the standard answers. What’s the worse that could happen to him only end up at Cas with Austin.

Re: Tonight’s game v Catalan : Fri Aug 04, 2023 11:37 pm  

Players p!$$ed off about how Maguire was treated.

Players p!$$ed off about how Powell was treated.

Players p!$$ed off about how we got rid of Mulhern, Charnley, Hughes, Cooper etc

Players rewarded with an extended contract after just a hand full of games - nothing to prove now

Poor levels of fitness

Players playing out of position

Players WAY past their sell by dates.

No wonder we are so poor.

Re: Tonight’s game v Catalan : Sat Aug 05, 2023 6:01 am  

Oxford Exile wrote:

Players rewarded with an extended contract after just a hand full of games - nothing to prove now

I think we get too obsessed with this. The club (any club) is between a rock and a hard place because if they don't sign players up on contracts early they have a player who spends two or three months mid-season weighing up various offers and potentially losing focus on the job in hand. If they play with something 'to prove' they are just as likely to receive offers from other clubs.

We can reasonably quibble the contract lengths - I'd have given Currie no more than 2 years - but I don't think we should be criticising the club for getting player contracts sorted.

Re: Tonight’s game v Catalan : Sat Aug 05, 2023 6:20 am  

I fully respect Chambers honestly but banging on about the players feelings and family when not once he’s mentioned the long suffering fans who still go through the turnstiles with a cost of living crisis affecting us all doesn’t sit well with me especially when quite a few of them players are on a nice lucrative contract.

Re: Tonight’s game v Catalan : Sat Aug 05, 2023 7:28 am  

Just beaten hands down in the ruck, where is the so called dominating pack that was heralded on here at the start of the season? We were too slow in attack and defence, poor with the basics of the game.

Re: Tonight’s game v Catalan : Sat Aug 05, 2023 7:56 am  

MorePlaymakersNeeded wrote:

Just beaten hands down in the ruck, where is the so called dominating pack that was heralded on here at the start of the season? We were too slow in attack and defence, poor with the basics of the game.

Dudson made 22 metres and took it up 3 times. This waste of space should have his contract torn up.

Re: Tonight’s game v Catalan : Sat Aug 05, 2023 8:06 am  

Vaughan fallen off a cliff.6 carries and 35 metres.

[Wanderer]

Re: Tonight’s game v Catalan : Sat Aug 05, 2023 8:17 am  

Lord Tony Smith wrote:

Dudson made 22 metres and took it up 3 times. This waste of space should have his contract torn up.

That he was signed in the first place was a big mistake. That he continues to be selected just beggars belief!

[Wanderer]

Re: Tonight’s game v Catalan : Sat Aug 05, 2023 8:20 am  

runningman29 wrote:

Vaughan fallen off a cliff.6 carries and 35 metres.

Excellent early season, hardly noticeable last night ... I wonder how long before he and/or his family will be 'homesick'?

Re: Tonight’s game v Catalan : Sat Aug 05, 2023 8:28 am  

runningman29 wrote:

I fully respect Chambers honestly but banging on about the players feelings and family when not once he’s mentioned the long suffering fans who still go through the turnstiles with a cost of living crisis affecting us all doesn’t sit well with me especially when quite a few of them players are on a nice lucrative contract.

I think he is trying to put up a bit of a firewall for the players in his defence. First job for him will be go get them lifted up and confident, which you can detect by him singling out a few positives in the press conference rather than focussing on what in reality was a collapse in concentration, particularly from Dufty. He mentioned the call against Philbin which did change the momentum, but didn’t call out the Dufty drop which did it in the first half.

It was quite refreshing, no excuses and genuine answers, even if through a positive filter.