Re: Stop Blaming the Manager : Tue Apr 23, 2019 12:23 pm  

Sometimes have to be careful what you wish for.
Not many realistic options about (unless you have Warringtons budget), so you could end up with an untried NRL assistant, or someone from the top end of the Championship.

Re: Stop Blaming the Manager : Tue Apr 23, 2019 12:43 pm  

Irregular Hoops wrote:

Sometimes have to be careful what you wish for.
Not many realistic options about (unless you have Warringtons budget), so you could end up with an untried NRL assistant, or someone from the top end of the Championship.

True, but I think most Rovers fans would be prepared to take that gamble at this stage in the season. The question is; will Neil Hudgell…..?

[Mild Rover]

Re: Stop Blaming the Manager : Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:00 pm  

A new coach still wouldn’t have anywhere near enough props.

I think, at something resembling full strength we could maybe stretch to the lower end of mid-table. With our pack now in a worse place than even in other recent years (and that is saying something), we are really up against it. I don’t see how a new coach changes that. Unfortunately, I don’t see how anything changes it. We just have take the beatings for a few more weeks, and hope we can pick up enough wins from the last 12 or 14 rounds or so, to grab 11th.

Re: Stop Blaming the Manager : Tue Apr 23, 2019 3:31 pm  

We hit our straps last dozen or so games last season, at times we were almost unbeatable.

Can it happen again this season ?

We can but hope.

Re: Stop Blaming the Manager : Tue Apr 23, 2019 6:51 pm  

Changing the coach won’t make a difference we did that when we sacked Chester and ended up getting relegated the fact is three quarters of the pack is injured and nothing will change until those players are back

Re: Stop Blaming the Manager : Tue Apr 23, 2019 9:35 pm  

Chester Wednesday wrote:

We hit our straps last dozen or so games last season, at times we were almost unbeatable.

Can it happen again this season ?

We can but hope.

As my brother keeps saying - it's the hope that kills you.

Re: Stop Blaming the Manager : Wed Apr 24, 2019 6:54 pm  

Why shouldn't fans blame the head coach? He and the Board are responsible for us going with a skinny squad this season, it was obvious to me at least, that injuries would leave us up a creek without a paddle and what happened? Along came the injuries! We seem to lack direction, our tackling is pathetic but on Monday, as with other matches this season, we came out in the second half a completely different team and promptly surrendered. What was in the team talk? Whatever it was must have deflated the team. After the Derby fiasco Sheens said strong words, not harsh, were said, it's obvious those words didn't have any effect on Friday or Monday. To sum up I think the head coach must bear the blame for our pathetic showings this season and go before it gets any worse!

Re: Stop Blaming the Manager : Wed Apr 24, 2019 7:04 pm  

Rovers had Mulhern playing against Warrington but no other recognised props with Mose, Garbutt, Jewitt, Scruton, Greenwood & Lannon all missing with injury. Of those only Garbutt & Jewitt played against Hull but were jabbed up and shouldn't have played now they are out for weeks.

People say you should be able to cope with a bit of adversity but honestly how could having 6 props unavailable and only one fit to play not hurt you?

No coach be it Sheens, Radford or Wayne Bennett could have coached Rovers to success against Warrington. Steve Price said that they had a couple missing and so did Rovers and it seems that is how most people see it. But Rovers didn't have a couple missing they had 6 prop forwards plus Lunt, McGuire & Quinlan.

As MR says we will have to tough it out for a while.

[Mild Rover]

Re: Stop Blaming the Manager : Wed Apr 24, 2019 9:14 pm  

I don’t think the ‘skinny’ squad is the problem. The number of props we have in the squad is perfectly normal. I also think if we’d gone with 35+ players and a dearth of quality again, that’d have brought different problems.

The problem is maybe the number of players who you think, even before the season kicks off, if we get 18 or 20 games from him, that’ll be a good return. Then you get the normal random injuries, and they all land in one part of the pitch, and we’re struggling.

Re: Stop Blaming the Manager : Thu Apr 25, 2019 2:13 pm  

I’m hearing two new signings should be completed in the next day or two for you. Should help you out of your injury situation. Just need to get the paperwork cleared by the rl and they will be announced.