no thread? bandwagon must be truly empty.
yes, the refs put us on the back foot with the 2nd and 3rd tries resulting from crap calls.
but even tho we were only maybe 6 minutes into the match, the rot had already set in. we were already missing and falling off tackles, and we were already disorganized.
there's a million things to be said about today's game, but I don't want to start ranting at the pea-hearted effort. so I'll just offer one thought.
alan tongue is a club legend, no doubt. I think most of us love and revere him.
but his time is up. that he has spent most of this season playing 9, watching the season slip away; that he has consistently been overshadowed by buttriss; that we've seen performance directly impacted upon by whether or not he's on the field; that we were crap today with him on the field, ok with debutant picker (who also overshadowed him), and crap again with tongue back on... (something that has happened numerous times with buttriss).
these things are all a terrible indictment on the coaching knowledge of our staff.
no one will ever question his heart, and given the injury situation I don't begrudge him
playing today.
but he is currently only our 5th best hooker by my reckoning! buttriss, picker (altho maybe to small to play there long term), mcillwrick and arguably Waddell are all better performing hookers than tongue.
so if we can all see this, if we can all watch a game and notice our performance hinging in hooker substitutions - why don't the coaching staff see it?
it's a business. emotion can't have anything to do with selection.
yes, the refs put us on the back foot with the 2nd and 3rd tries resulting from crap calls.
but even tho we were only maybe 6 minutes into the match, the rot had already set in. we were already missing and falling off tackles, and we were already disorganized.
there's a million things to be said about today's game, but I don't want to start ranting at the pea-hearted effort. so I'll just offer one thought.
alan tongue is a club legend, no doubt. I think most of us love and revere him.
but his time is up. that he has spent most of this season playing 9, watching the season slip away; that he has consistently been overshadowed by buttriss; that we've seen performance directly impacted upon by whether or not he's on the field; that we were crap today with him on the field, ok with debutant picker (who also overshadowed him), and crap again with tongue back on... (something that has happened numerous times with buttriss).
these things are all a terrible indictment on the coaching knowledge of our staff.
no one will ever question his heart, and given the injury situation I don't begrudge him
playing today.
but he is currently only our 5th best hooker by my reckoning! buttriss, picker (altho maybe to small to play there long term), mcillwrick and arguably Waddell are all better performing hookers than tongue.
so if we can all see this, if we can all watch a game and notice our performance hinging in hooker substitutions - why don't the coaching staff see it?
it's a business. emotion can't have anything to do with selection.