Re: It's time now : Fri May 12, 2023 6:49 pm  

BarnsleyGull wrote:

All injured would players go to A&E.....
Whether they play for Wakefield Trinity or Manchester City.

Can just imagine an ambulance with a player with a broken leg rocking up to the spire or Nuffield

Re: It's time now : Fri May 12, 2023 7:02 pm  

Sounds rather ridiculous and drastic, but if I was Ashurst I'd take the lads to one side and tell them to ignore any "plan" ( if there was one) that they'd been instructed to work to by Mash, and instead go out and play there own "natural" game in much the way that kids do. I'm sure we'd get a more entertaining spectacle and maybe even win a game. We couldn't do any worse than 0/12.
At least in that dreadful James Webster era there was an end motive to his apparent madness ie to in effect forfeit games in order to concentrate on the final play offs, and it paid off. Can't see this season ending in a similar manner.

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Re: It's time now : Fri May 12, 2023 8:39 pm  

Redscat wrote:

Sounds rather ridiculous and drastic, but if I was Ashurst I'd take the lads to one side and tell them to ignore any "plan" ( if there was one) that they'd been instructed to work to by Mash, and instead go out and play there own "natural" game in much the way that kids do. I'm sure we'd get a more entertaining spectacle and maybe even win a game. We couldn't do any worse than 0/12.
At least in that dreadful James Webster era there was an end motive to his apparent madness ie to in effect forfeit games in order to concentrate on the final play offs, and it paid off. Can't see this season ending in a similar manner.

Don't be stupid. No one forfeited any games.

Re: It's time now : Fri May 12, 2023 9:38 pm  

Stupid? Moi?? At least I'm living in the real world PT. If you look again you will see i used the phrase "in effect". It was pretty clear at the time that Webster's main aim was to take the gamble that we would be successful in the (relegation) play offs and hence, hopefully, survive in SL and that's where his attention was focused. Subsequently our league game performances suffered. Look at the results that season. Perhaps you were on holiday at the time or elsewhere in your make believe world.

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Re: It's time now : Fri May 12, 2023 9:47 pm  

Redscat wrote:

Stupid? Moi?? At least I'm living in the real world PT. If you look again you will see i used the phrase "in effect". It was pretty clear at the time that Webster's main aim was to take the gamble that we would be successful in the play offs and hence, hopefully, survive in SL and that's where his attention was focused. Subsequently our league game performances suffered. Look at the results that season. Perhaps you were on holiday at the time or elsewhere in your make believe world.

I was watching, same as every other season, but even though you imply you didn't mean it you still say he did it.

He was poor and should not have been head coach but he didn't throw games and neither did the players.

Re: It's time now : Fri May 12, 2023 10:00 pm  

Come off it. you may think that I'm stupid, but I'm not stupid enough to state that Webster threw games, Of course he didn't, but his apparent laid back attitude to coaching and the far below par team performances during that period appeared to be acceptable and all would come good in the play offs.

Re: It's time now : Fri May 12, 2023 10:23 pm  

Look on the bright side, at least you didn't pay a fortune to have a side with no pace, no decent half backs that can't score near the line and gets nilled. One thing that we do have in common is a coach with no idea, although at least yours doesn't make embarrassing excuses or call out players due to his crap recruitment!