Criticising a player is the same as doubting him.

No its' not.

You have it spot on. Gareth is talking out of his botty on this subject.

Smith's dip in form came when he was a bit part to the coaches. When he was in and out of the side, and confidence not shown in him. Whenever the lad has had a string of games together he has looked a class act.

Take beginning of last season, as Gareth has brought that example up. Smith looked far superior to Ryan Hall in every facet, but the coach decided he wanted to rotate the players to test them. What happend is Smith's play started to suffer. Then you get the rhinos feckw1ttery fans coming on saying he is not up to it. Once Mclennan was forced into bringing Smith back into the fold due to lack of players and Smith got a string of games together, he finished the season better than his team mates.

This season he has been handed a starting spot with no pressure on him and he is reacting like a lot of people know he can play.

This is not temporary or a fluke. The lad has been doing it since he made his debut. The only time his form dips his when he is made a scapegoat or not backed. You would have to be seriously naive and blinkered not to see that.

As my booty knows more about rugby than you what difference does it make?

Can you explain why you think it's ok to talk like that of someoen else but if anyone dares to pick you up on your writing off of JJB you become all uppity?

Clear double standards.

Absolute utter bo!!ox

I rate Sean Long, but I criticised him for not passing to Pryce on friday night.

Your logic astounds me

I dont know. Can you explain where I became all uppity?

I admitted I was wrong, and did not use silly excuses to hide it. Its quite simple. If your wrong your wrong.

On this subject Gareth is most certainly wrong, and some how see's it has pure coincidence that Smiths form dropped has his coaches used him as a scapegoat.

What am I wrong about DISA?

We have a difference of opinion on something subjective yet you feel confident enough to proclaim me wrong. Let's face it, you don't have a great track record of credibility round these parts so if my opinion differs to you there's prima facie evidence that I am probably right.

Oh, and my opinion of Smith's ups and downs just so happened to be shared by two people very well qualified to judge him, Tony Smith and Brian McLennan.

HTH

i do feel smith is very much a 'confidence' player. he needs to feel wanted,not the type pf player to be slaughtering in the changing room.
all players are different.some need persistant encouragment, others need a rollocking.

Hang on a second, does anyone have any evidence that Smith has ever been shown anything but encouragement or is this just revisionism making up things that nobody has mentioned before in Smith's three previous seasons?

Maybe, just maybe, Tony Smith knew what he was doing when he took him out of the full back role in 2006. maybe Smith put his arm around the kid and said "re-build your game in the reserves away from the pressure of the 1st team and we'll build you back up".

Maybe a genius like DISA would've kept him in the 1st team under the glaring spotlight and pressure whilst his game went to [i[/i and the whinos fekkwitts were baying for his blood. That would've been encouraging wouldn't it.

Talking about being sick. My old man, who sits in the North Stand, said that Danny Allan was sick on the pitch a few times. I'm not surprised, he looked absolutley shattered, welcome to Super League my son!! Great defensive effort as well.

Looks like wasps will have money to spend.. www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 83,00.html

Looks like wasps will have money to spend.. www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 83,00.html

Quote ="rhinoms"Looks like wasps will have money to spend.. www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 83,00.html'" Just wait till after the WCC

Quote ="rhinoms"Looks like wasps will have money to spend.. www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 83,00.html'" Just wait till after the WCC

Is it a done deal then??
When will he leave????