Quote ="Durham Giant"Reading the posts on here is like a discussion between Humans and martians.
There are some real problems at the club and no one seems to answer them.
The big issue for me in respect of Anderson is who is responsible for recruitment retention and planning.
If it is baloo he should be gone if it is Thewlis he should be gone. One or the other is responsible.
Injuries are part of the game every team at one point or another experiences them. Hull a couple of years ago and Saints last year
Leeds and us this year.
What is important is what sort of squad do you have,
Who went into this season we three experienced props Eorl, Rapira and Huby ?
We then have a couple of blown up second rows as back up Taai and Patrick.
After that we have three kids. Everyone knows that Props do not come into their prime until late 20s.
We were left with Smith mason and Johnson.
They a;; might become great players but they are a long way from where they need to be.
IN the backs it was even worse. We had two experienced backs to provide injury cover then we were down to kids who are not ready.
Who decided to go into the season with Robbo who was on the verge of retiring last year. Again this left us running a big risk re injuries.
Some one at the club gambled with having a very small squad and they lost big tome.
Someone made that decision and now we are paying for it.
My separate issue about Anderson relates to his man management / coaching and tactics.
Last year we had the quickest player in the league and never played to his strengths. We did not on one occasion as i can remember have a set mve using his pace. We then off;load him.
Who stopped our payers playing any sort of off;loading game.
Why is our passing so slow innacurate. This has been an issue for 3 seasons.
Every time i here Anderson say, " we know what the problems are, the players turned up with the wrong attitude". Then we say it again.
I can accept the team losing. I cannot accept the team not trying. Not trying is about something in the team. It is not about skill or injuries.
In my view Anderson has TWO games to sort this. If the players give up in the next two games like they have in the last two then Anderson will have to be sacrificed.
IF we lose the next two games we will be in the middle 8s and will need a new coach to get the team up for winning in the middle 8s. It will take that long to re organise and re invigorate the team.'"
Agree with all of this , I was saying at the start of the season, why have we not recruited better ? Why are we showing such loyalty to players well past there best ? We seemed to ether get over confident or lose the plot all together after we won the lls, to me that was the time ,the momentum was on our side ,confidence was high and in my opinion replacing a few tired players with some class myt have been all we needed to go all the way ,but instead we as a club have just taken a massive step backwards! . I just hope something is done quick because we don't have a big enough fan base to cope with even one season in the lower leagues, yes we would survive but the damage would be done and 90% of our top players would abandon ship. Hopefully we will stop the rot and find some fight soon. I seriously suggest we find some big aggressive forwards and let them offload!
