The strongest comments I've ever seen from Madge in all his time here - expect a backlash on Friday.

I don't fancy being in training this week lol

I thought exactly the same when I read his comments. He always usually talk about not going through the processes or some kind of crap like that.

Personally I would have preferred some sort of analogy about putting Humpty Dumpty back together.

About time really, we have been pretty average all year..time to start producing some form.

errr this is not 2008



I always though Cullens analogies were the best, always made me chuckle

Can't make an omelette without cracking a few eggs!



Seriously though, I was just about to comment on this. He seems furious. Really looking forward to the derby now!

It may not be a problem but you see the players out a lot more than you did last season..They were very rare occasions last season.
maybe madge as been letting things go more than his first season.

Very pleased with Madges strong reaction, it needs to be said and it needs to be acted upon immediately so we have a fighting mentality for the entire 80mins v saints.

We must learn to never switch off and continue to play for the full 80 to the best of our ability no matter what the scoreline is.

Must admit i've noticed this also..

If we had done that all season as some of us have been saying we wouldn't have wire crowing about their points difference because we would have a similar number. We have spent a lot of this season playing for part of the match and we have beeen lucky not to have been caught out more than we have.

I'm not surprised he ain't happy. Just not good enough at all .

Bet Lockers and Pat are s*****ng themselves already!!

He's on his merry way next season, maybe he has lost the edge and more importantly, the dressing room????

I'd bet a bottom dollar that if he starts bollocking the players and apportioning blame, we'll just get worse.

The sooner we get SW embedded into Coaches roll the better.

Big improvement required next week! Need to learn to close games out and be a bit more clinical when we're in front. The conditions and the fact 5 players were backing up from playing less than 48 hours previous certainly wouldnt have helped but we shouldnt be letting such a commanding lead go.

That's true but I am not too bothered about the points difference. It might give Wire a place above a team but it won't win a GF. It's not like when we won a league title because of it but that should not detract from the fact we have been lucky not to be caught out more often.

Madge may not be a happy bunny, but can he really blame the players? The RFL have slipped an "international" grade game into the fixtures which puts a bias against the best of the UK teams.

i do wonder if the delay in announcing any sort of status or signing for the manger next year is hurting us, many teams throughout this second half of the season will be looking at players, signing them up (after the September deadline) and our team do not know who they are going to eb working under, and if we take the reports from australia that there have been many signings for souths and madge is involved, you have to seriously ask the question, would this be effecting the players, would they be bothered about not knowing, there are many key players at massive decision points in their careers, it just might all add up to a frustrating time off the field, prehaps not all the time but i know from experience, having going through a similar sort of deal within a large company it can be frustrating and these fusrations unfortunatly make its way into your work and into your working relationships.

We are a work in progress !

Rivington this morning?

After backing up following the Exiles game..its perhaps not the time to start throwing the toys out of the pram. However what is worrying is the consist lack of penetration we are getting in attack especially on the opposition line.

Our two pivots (Deacs and Finch) are carbon copies of each other...they both stand deep and NEVER take the line on. The opposition know they are gonna pass every time and simply spot the players in position to recieve the pass up..and NAIL THEM.

We need more from the halves, they are not a good combination at this pont in time. Its getting to the point where we have to question persevering with this combination...because its just not delivering.

We have three options...

Put Tommy back at 7 with Deacs at 6 (never thought I'd say that)
Bring Sam from full back into the halves (Madge will never do this) - he'd then have ball in hand on 3-4 palys out of each set (better use of his talents)
Bring Mellor in - a huge gamble

We just cant carry on as we are - either Finch improves or he's dropped.

out of those options id go for the sam one everytime, but im thinking that we will never see sam bk in the halves

The problem then is getting an attacking fullback. It's so important to have that in a team these days and beyond Sam there's no other at the club, bar Roberts.

Correct - Amos did nothing worng yesterday..we need to give him a run.

We cant afford the luxury of the best player in the league at full back when our halves are playing poop.

Time for action

It needs to be looked at in context.

Wigan, Wire and Sai*ts contributed 20 of the 34 Origin players, and scored 0 second half tries between them.

Indeed. Is it really surprising those teams underperformed less than 48 hours later?