Smith - 10 games in : Tue May 05, 2009 12:16 pm  

So we are 10 games in with Tony Smith, with 5 wins and 5 losses. (including the Leeds game which he didnt select)

W - 5, L - 5, F - 277, A - 246 Diff +31

I'm reasonably (8/10) happy with what he has done considering what he inherited. Everyone else content?

: Tue May 05, 2009 12:17 pm  

I think its slowly coming together.

: Tue May 05, 2009 12:25 pm  

Very pleased.

Take out the Quins deable, which I don't blame him for, and the points difference takes a different shape.

95% of the squad have shown improvement in form to some degree, and many of them have improved immensely. So much so, there's folk that I'd wrote off, like Vinnie Anderson for example, who now looks a completely different player.

I feel like our future, could not be in safer hands.

I also love that thing he does, where he pretends he can't hear the SKY interviewer, and strains, and the fact that he doesn't take any messing during those chats, he puts things straight etc.

He's very much 'The Man'.

: Tue May 05, 2009 12:25 pm  

Re-building process's always take time and you have to take some knocks along the way, im relatively happy.

: Tue May 05, 2009 12:26 pm  

a number of players are playing their best rugby at the club since smith has arrived.....I cant think of any player who's performances have gone worse.

And he's got Vinnie Anderson and Matt King playing well which is good work on its own....!!!

his biggest job is getting something out of Monaghan....

Re: Smith - 10 games in : Tue May 05, 2009 12:28 pm  

Wires71 wrote:

So we are 10 games in with Tony Smith, with 5 wins and 5 losses. (including the Leeds game which he didnt select)

W - 5, L - 5, F - 277, A - 246 Diff +31

I'm reasonably (8/10) happy with what he has done considering what he inherited. Everyone else content?

very happy , entertaining and good rugby, this weekend showed we could potentially beat a form team with a few of our big hitters out of the team.

I think we can only go up from here .

: Tue May 05, 2009 12:28 pm  

the flying biscuit wrote:

a number of players are playing their best rugby at the club since smith has arrived.....I cant think of any player who's performances have gone worse.

And he's got Vinnie Anderson and Matt King playing well which is good work on its own....!!!

his biggest job is getting something out of Monaghan....

On the Monaghan point I believe he is playing much better of late, including on Sunday.

: Tue May 05, 2009 12:29 pm  

JWP wrote:

95% of the squad have shown improvement in form to some degree, and many of them have improved immensely. So much so, there's folk that I'd wrote off, like Vinnie Anderson for example, who now looks a completely different player.

the flying biscuit wrote:

a number of players are playing their best rugby at the club since smith has arrived.....I cant think of any player who's performances have gone worse.

And he's got Vinnie Anderson and Matt King playing well which is good work on its own....!!!

look at that great minds and all that.....
we could be twins like Danny Devito and Arnie....

: Tue May 05, 2009 12:29 pm  

His biggest achievement IMO was getting shut of Gleeson and managing to get £100k for him in the process

His second biggest is getting Briers almost into line, although my guess is that their 'relationship' will be fairly short lived.

Nice one Tony lad

: Tue May 05, 2009 12:40 pm  

After the quins game i was thinking you could pretty much write our season off.

Now, i'm quite positive and looking forward to each game alot more than i was before.

I genuinely think we have a great chance in the challange cup and i think we should easily make the play-offs.

Sunday's game for me was a blip, silly penalties, a couple of dodgy ref calls and we still only lost by 8 points.

Roll on the next game.