Garbage team selection, garbage squad utilisation, players we sign and don't trust, players we sign and persist with even though they are useless and no rugby IQ between them.


Teams don't beat us, we hand them victory days in advance.

Lindop is going ti be a top player, not sure about Wrench. To be fair to King he was one of the few that looked threatening against Leigh. 


But to have two natural, pacey centres with evasion who can tackle would be a dream come true. 


Tai hasn't built any attacking skills since last year so, likeable character as he is, I wouldn't extend him. 

This is the killer question, it's why I drew a distinction between the TS era and the Price era in terms of saying "with the squad we had we should have won the Grand Final".

In the TS era our rivals would have coveted lots of our players, you could make a case that the Wigan team who beat us in 2013 would have replaced over half their starters with ours if they had the chance. Leeds - maybe not. Their core was better than ours. But it was legitimate to say we had the team to win the Grand Final.

But this was still being said in the Price era when it wasn't true. At the start of every season in the Price era I'd predict us to be about 5th and outside chance of winning the Challenge Cup and on here people would say no, who's better than us, we've got the squad to match Saints/Wigan/Cats. I never saw it. I would always think - if each member of our squad was available how many would the top teams be interested in?

We saw the answer after they left, it was only Cooper and Clark. I would have added Hill to that list who IMO was good enough to play for a top team when he joined Hudds. 


Right now...I almost daren't ask the question...

Yet somehow we manage to spend full cap plus marquees on them ... 

If I had the money I would clear the club from top to bottom. I see Wigan how professional they look same can be said for a few clubs, then I look at us and it?s like an 18-30 destination club. We occasionally turn up for a game then switch off again. I think it will be like this for years to come unless we can iradicate history/culture. Thing is we will never do that because we keep giving jobs to the boys and so the culture continues. I wish I was wrong but I don?t think I am. I thought for a while Tony Smith had it sorted but eventually they got around him.

True. It all starts at the top. Board and CEO. If that isn't right the rest won't be either. We have a TEMU  CEO and, i am led to believe, a chairman that meddles in the recruiment like a boy playing with his train set.