Re: Rumours Rumours everywhere : Sat Aug 08, 2015 11:36 am  

I agree there'd likely be an improvement under Powell. But saying that there'd be no change with a better squad is crackers.

Re: Rumours Rumours everywhere : Sat Aug 08, 2015 12:27 pm  

Well if we are going to have a better squad next season then we can surely expect better performances and a higher finish.

If there is no improvement then Radford will have no excuses.

In year three of his tenure with what is truly his own squad, he won't be able to blame anyone else.

Re: Rumours Rumours everywhere : Sat Aug 08, 2015 12:36 pm  

Mrs Barista wrote:

Depends how you define "not changing". If you gave Radford Leeds squad, it's fair to assume they'd beat our current team. Quality of playing personnel, believe it or not, makes a difference. Brian McDermott from London to Leeds is a great example of this

Will we break through the Top 3 "glass ceiling" with the 2016 squad and Radford? No. Would we with another coach, like Paul Anderson, or Frayssinous, or even Darryl Powell? Unlikely IMO. We might do better next season though than this. We have done better this season than last and the squad's better. Not an outrageous scenario.

Re: Rumours Rumours everywhere : Sat Aug 08, 2015 1:04 pm  

Legends and Icons wrote:

Mrs Barista wrote:

Depends how you define "not changing". If you gave Radford Leeds squad, it's fair to assume they'd beat our current team. Quality of playing personnel, believe it or not, makes a difference. Brian McDermott from London to Leeds is a great example of this

Will we break through the Top 3 "glass ceiling" with the 2016 squad and Radford? No. Would we with another coach, like Paul Anderson, or Frayssinous, or even Darryl Powell? Unlikely IMO. We might do better next season though than this. We have done better this season than last and the squad's better. Not an outrageous scenario.

Of course quality of playing personnel makes a difference, but we are never going to have a squad as good as Leeds, Wigan, Saints or Wire. We therefore need a coach who can get the best out of the players we have.

Re: Rumours Rumours everywhere : Sat Aug 08, 2015 1:43 pm  

I was only thinking about this this morning.
Teams like Hudds and Cas were once teams we'd expect to beat quite regularly and were almost the whipping boys of the league.
Now no longer. Hudds are far superior and for me between ourselves and Cas the balance of power so to speak is now shifting towards them.
The catalyst for these 2 teams has definitely been there coaching appointments which has enabled their clubs to improve beyond us.
Pritchard and Taylor aside our recruitment is of an unknown nature thus far and hopefully an improvement over what we currently have but unless our style of play and tactical approach radically change I believe we will still encounter the same issues but will scrape top 8 again. Top 6 is where we need to be aiming at As Cas and Hudds have consistently achieved last 2 seasons.
For me to get the best out of our squad this season and next we need a new coach.
For me we could improve but think it would be down to improved players quality not coaching ability.

Re: Rumours Rumours everywhere : Sat Aug 08, 2015 4:58 pm  

Bombed Out wrote:

I was only thinking about this this morning.
Teams like Hudds and Cas were once teams we'd expect to beat quite regularly and were almost the whipping boys of the league.
Now no longer. Hudds are far superior and for me between ourselves and Cas the balance of power so to speak is now shifting towards them.
The catalyst for these 2 teams has definitely been there coaching appointments which has enabled their clubs to improve beyond us.
Pritchard and Taylor aside our recruitment is of an unknown nature thus far and hopefully an improvement over what we currently have but unless our style of play and tactical approach radically change I believe we will still encounter the same issues but will scrape top 8 again. Top 6 is where we need to be aiming at As Cas and Hudds have consistently achieved last 2 seasons.
For me to get the best out of our squad this season and next we need a new coach.
For me we could improve but think it would be down to improved players quality not coaching ability.

i think us and cas are two evenly matched teams on the field, results have proved it this season, 2 wins each! we could have won that game easily last night, but 3 players weren't strong enough mentally, funnily enough the 3 players we are losing.

agree with the comments about hudds though, i do wonder how they manage to attract a certain calibre of player, location? wages?

Re: Rumours Rumours everywhere : Sun Aug 09, 2015 9:23 am  

I may have miss heard but barely caught the radford interview from before the cas game. When asked about signings said they was looking at bringing in a backrow (as we know) and a back? Did I miss hear that?

Re: Rumours Rumours everywhere : Sun Aug 09, 2015 9:55 am  

airliebird,runninglate! wrote:

I may have miss heard but barely caught the radford interview from before the cas game. When asked about signings said they was looking at bringing in a backrow (as we know) and a back? Did I miss hear that?

Maybe Washbrook is covering wing and FB.

Re: Rumours Rumours everywhere : Sun Aug 09, 2015 10:14 am  

Don't know if Radford is familiar with the hooker, either kind. One stands on street corners and has slippy knickers, the other plays at 9 on a rugby field. Think he might be looking at the wrong one cause he doesn't seem interested in bringing in one any time soon. I suppose a back rower can play there as it seems we might be playing back rowers in every position next season lol

Re: Rumours Rumours everywhere : Sun Aug 09, 2015 10:23 am  

Mrs Barista wrote:

Maybe Washbrook is covering wing and FB.

See him more as a strike centre myself. He reminds me a lot of kallum watkins