Arguably the next 5 games will not only shape our season but may also dictate who will be our coach beyond this season.

The next 7 days is possibly the most important week in Lammy's coaching career.

Hull KR Away

Leeds Away

Hudds Away

Salford Home

Hull KR Home

We simply have to win all 5.

Lose the next 2 and Wigan could be in the bottom 2 with Lam gone.

I think you can extend that to the next 8 games....I think you'll win 3 perhaps 4...
And I think London will win today...so you could find yourselves joint bottom much sooner.

You'd get good odds on a London win today even with Saints playing a few fringe players. London seem to have a good work ethic but will need a bit more than that today.

Fancied us today but I've got a dreadful "new coach bounce" feeling in my stomach.
I hope the players really realise what a bad position they could be in by the end of the afternoon.

Spot on this although I think 4 from 5 will do, depending on performances. I said after Magic that I don’t think we’ll lose in June and I stand by that comment.

we will finish second bottom

With Tony Smith going to Hull KR, Leeds openly looking too, that’s going to leave us with fewer options once Lammy gets potted which will eventually happen, we are just putting of the inevitable. The only reason it’s not been done yet is we’d have to pay him up, which is disgraceful in my book.

The evidence thus far is that they don't. Still time for that to change, however.

You know that for a fact do you?

If a club sacks a coach they still have to pay his contract up. With Lenagan trying to cut costs it’s an educated guess as to that being the reason.

If the club wants to get rid of him. Maybe they don't.

But if they then appointed John Winder as caretaker it would hardly be cost cutting would it?

I’d rather we did that until the end of the season than stick with Lam.

John took training pretty much all week and our performance on Sunday was still off, I don't think an in-house coaching change is the way forward.

Somethings got to change.

The old Lenagan would show ruthlessness here ala releasing Brian Noble.

Release but not sack.

That's just a complete rewrite of history.

Nobles contract was up and IL didn't renew it. Hardly ruthless As far as I'm aware he's never sacked a coach and he's been pretty loyal to players too. Flower, Bateman and ZH have all faced calls to be sacked under his watch.

I'll state it now - we aren't going to get relegated and won't even come close to it. London might have beaten Saints, but other teams won't make the mistake of resting players against them as they don't have the comfort zone that Saints do. Our team isn't great, but it's been than a lot of teams above us.

Lam should stay in charge until the end of the year and then someone fresh should come in with a full pre season. My choice would be to approach Flanagan now, get him signed up properly (not like Edwards) and then let him review and plan for 2020.

Rather than release anyone, if he was savvy he would bring in a "coach" to work alongside Lam for the rest of this year, appointing Justin Morgan would be a touch of genius.

Probably Joel Tomkins comes closest being 'transferred' to Hull KR.

JT did jump out at me, but I honestly don't know the details behind him moving to HKR. Was it mutual or was he forced out?

I know IL has stuck behind Hock, Flower and Bateman who all did far worse.

Yes, the players need to catch the ball. Hardly a coaching issue at that level is it? If a player drops the ball on the 1st tackle, is it Lam’s fault for not teaching him to catch?

The very, very low skills of many of our players is a cause for concern. But I think the coach has some responsibilty for that too.

Players like Tautai need to be on a 5-week intensive course on how to catch a football. It's incredible that the guy is actually earning a living from this. But instead, he keeps getting picked and making the same mistakes again and again and again ...

Lam's only got so many options, so I don't blame him entirely. But he's really got to get more out of these players than he is doing. Half of them were at OT last season.

No but it’s far beyond that, if we had good shape in attack and offered set moves etc but was dropping the ball then Lam wouldn’t be to blame, but we offer zero in attack, we have no shape no structure and throw the ball around like headless chickens

Yes. Even the worlds best players need to work on basics.