Up there with the best for me, surprised top clubs aren't after him.
Much improved in his dealing with the media too.

All those that want Chester to stay remember the money we receive from Sky drops the lower down the league you are. The question is can we afford to keep Chester any longer.

I think it showed up the debate of do forwards or a half back come first...HKR's pack is no better than ours on paper but the work of an unfit Jordan Abdul, even tho he looked a few pounds over his fighting weight, was tremendous & better than anything our halves have managed this season...the one player we should've signed from London??...you decide...

So who do we suggest to get in the forward pack who we may be able to afford who is a bit nasty only one i reckon is probably ben flower at wigan if his contract has fallen through at wolfpack may be looking around personally i dont like him but hes certainly got a vicious streak in him that might charge up our other forwards

Not sure an increasingly injury prone 33 year old is necessarily the way we should be heading. We need some younger blood in the front row from somewhere.

Definitely not for me, Flower should never have played a game of RL again after the grand final incident .

he was totally outplayed tonight and as has been said at 33 we dont need another dads army member.

HKR perf just shows what can be achieved with a good coach & the right attitude from players, opposite of what stale Chester and his unmotivated bunch are offering.

Was Smith a good coach last week because he was on a long losing streak then.

It does show that previous form does not dictate form forever. We can turn it around if we stick at it.

Against Saints they gave it a good go and were playing attractive rugby, they were unlucky with basic errors but their play was streets ahead of ours.
They built on that performance, culminating in what happened yesterday.
Smith's post match interview was upbeat and refreshing, a total contrast from our post match or even pre match interviews.

To say you’re twisting the narrative to suit your argument would be a huge understatement but that’ I suppose is what people do when they get frustrated.

This season we were hugely unlucky against Hull and Wigan but I suppose that doesn’t count.

You need to take off you extra thick rose tinted specs if you think HKR are playing RL that’s streets ahead of us, they are not. They don’t have the worst injury crisis in the game.

Smith being positive, doesn’t happen much, now why would he suddenly be happy after his first win in yonks? I just can’t work it out, can anyone help?

In fairness, they've been competitive in large parts of all of their post lockdown games and well in each of those games for the first half
Smith is a decent coach and has gone with a generally younger squad, which looked very, very risky last season.
They are not world beaters and probably benefitted from Wigan resting a few of their own squad.
However, they have turned up, ready to play, something that we just haven't done this season.

A brave comeback after getting caned in the first half isn't good enough.

I was impressed with Abdul and Hadley both of whom must have been "available" over the last 12 months.
His kicking game alone is head and shoulders above anything we've managed without Brough.

Neither do Wakefield, that dubious honour goes to Huddersfield at the moment

Of course you wont have noticed that we had the most until Shudds played last week.........
And then we picked up a few more......

You may think I need to take the tinted specs off but I think you just need to start wearing some specs, if you can't see that there's been no improvement on structure or putting on moves.
I can bet that even when Smith isn't in front of the cameras, he's positive and makes players that aren't as talented as what we've got,believe in themselves.
Take for instance George King, I was underwhelmed with his signing but people said he was going to be the next big thing. At Wakey he's not been used properly, I expect him to be used correctly and given a specific role at HKR and let's see what he does.

Both the aforementioned above were known to prefer to be in Hull unless ridiculous offers came in. I doubt we could match Hull KR's let alone better it.

You make a very good point there,

Has King officially signed yet?

Vast man any chance H K R lack of injury is down to better coaching

I don't think anyone expected him to be the next big thing.
He was good at what he did but isn't irreplaceable.

Smith is an excellent coach and I'd probably say better than Chester..... But that doesn't make Chester rubbish.

When King signed, people were saying in the next few years he would be one of the best British forwards about.
I would say in his 2 years at Wakey, he's stood still if not gone backwards.
But it looks like in the next couple of years he may prove to be a quality British forward.

I can’t see King becoming any better than he is now - a solid grafter.

Well I would stop taking advice from those people because they were clearly wide of the mark.
Warrington certainly didn't think so.

Which asks the question why did Wakefield sign him.

If he was going to be the next best British forward then why did he join Trinity!

I like him, works hard but can be replaced at the same time.