Quote ="mark_m"Eddie is sort of a fan of Widnes but lives locally and is President of the amateur club I lam involved with... which is in Warrington. He doesn't have an axe to grind.
However I think there are issues between the Sky team and Tony Smith stemming back to some comments made by them a few years back.
PS Hemmings is surprisingly tall.'"
It stems back to his time as England manager and the World Cup in Aus.
They slated Smith on Sky, they were saying things like "he can't control the big players" "he only looks after his Leeds boys" "he can't get unity in the camp" "he let's the players do what they want" "why does he let the players dress down and not in suits"...then after we lost against Australia someone said in the after match pitch interview something along the lines of "are you going to take the blame for this unacceptable showing in the World Cup?" to which Smith said something like "i'm surprised and let down by that question i expected more from you".
Since then he's never been open with Sky, doesn't really engage with them in interviews or anything.
