Please tell me he didn't say "....we know where we went wrong....working on it...looking forward to putting it right on friday...., etc, etc..."

I couldn't tell you, the moment he started talking I fell asleep.....

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Mmmmm. Do you think he issued a b********? I think that's part of the problem. I don't think he has the fear factor!

Where? Odsal? Are you one of the 100 or so that travel over then?

Part of me feels sorry for Macca, because he has once again been badly let down by his players. But he has recruited those players and it is his job to instil the mental toughness needed to win matches from various scenarios. I'm afraid the interview didn't really inspire confidence that things can change for next week.

I'd like to see Deacon dropped but who else can we play there? Perhaps if Solomona is back we could look at moving Menzies to 6 and Jeffries to 7. Deacon is doing very little right now other than throw the odd hospital pass and missing far too many tackles. I'd go for the following team for Leeds:

Platt (despite todays blunder he has been playing well)
Halley
Sykes
Nero
Tadulala
Menzies
Jeffries
Burgess
Newton
Lynch
Solomona
Cook
Langley

Worrincey
Koppy
Scruton
Crossley/Donaldson/Whitehead/Hyde

Let's give one of the young guys a go. Ok Leeds at home isn't the ideal time to blood a young un but I don't see the benefit of having an out and out winger on the bench. I assume Crossley is fit, in which case I'd give him a chance to make a name for himself. Quite often a young player actually makes his name is such high profile games.

FFS i fell asleep at half time put teletext on and thought FM useless bug@ers are those idiots at teletext , then i came on RLFans .....
I stand corrected




did the mystic 1 see this coming?

I'm dreading Leeds next week, although the match I'm watching now seems to be taking a bit out of them. Deacon dropped would be good, he's been more of a liability than ever lately; He can't tackle, knocks on at easy passes and his in-game kicking has gone to pot. I'd include Donaldson or Whitehead and I agree with Menzies and Jeffries in the halves.

At least we travel. When you play at the Galpharm most of your spporters only have to catch a local bus.

Yeah, but the Beer's awful!

We need to do something until Deacon can sort his defence out. If not Leeds big men will run at Deacon all night long and score tries for fun. He's had plenty of games to find some form and has offered nothing, time to make a bold change to shake things up a little.

That's cheered me up. Cheers.

I've just had a thought....
...what odds would you have got on Catalans to win at half time?
Mmmmm...

The first half was more to do with their poor defense than our quality attack, vica versa in the second half. That neither team could halt the momentum of the other and it was just a case of who made better use of that momentum. That really terrifies me for next week as Leeds are guaranteed to capitalise on 70%+ of their opportunities and there'll be nothing we can do to slow them down.

A 50+ score line is on the cards

If Catalans can get 40, then Leeds can get double. It's going to be a long night.

was long at headingley today?...sorry wrong thread

So surely it was his job to make sure we were ready for this week.
This is a good tactic. Just say that the last match was the last match and that you are getting them ready for the next match.

Can't argue there!

Just watching the replays now and it's making me angry more than anything else. Our defence was the worst I have ever seen it, McNamara really needs the sack. OUr inability to defend is going to leave us outside the prlay-off zone all season if it doesn't get better.

Shame the team wasn't as defensive

Crossley has all his confidence knocked out of him by mcnamara..3 times this season hes been promised he`ll be in squad and hasn`t yet..he wishes he had signed with giants like he was gonna do but macca promised him the eareth so he stayed..can see him asking for a transfer before long..why is kopzcak in front of him..for a prop he offers no go forard at all.

Another issue to be sorted out is the way we use interchanges.

Once again, we saw nothing of Halley, Worrincy and Kopczak until the second half, in fact we hardly saw anything of Halley and Worrincy. I noticed that St Helens used all of their 4 subs in the 1st half against Leeds - constantly looking to freshen up their line up.

It was obvious that in sweltering heat, keeping the same 13 (14 if y ou count Scruton being used) for 50-60 minutes was going to result in people basically being knackered in the last 20-30 minutes. The commentators commented a couple of times as to how tired we looked

It's like the coaching staff don't really 'believe' in the bench, only using them as something of a last resort. Halley must feel like he was dragged back from Wakefield just to make up the numbers - he goes from starting for Wakey to getting 10-15 minutes off the bench for us.

Nicky Saxton; Ryan Atkins, Richard Johnson,Karl Pryce, David Haley; Mark Flanagan, Matt Brooks;Tony Tonks, Richard Dobson, Matt James, Ben Feehan,Anthony Szostak, Brett Ferres.

Thats our reserve squad for 2005. Worrying thing is that it looks nearly as strong as our first team at the moment.


BTW, where's Saxton at now?

Thought Matt James was out on loan for the season?

What was platty thinking?