No he doesn't, these are long term problems and are not something that has happened in the last week. When we have the ball in attack no one has a clue, we have no plays and no ideas, what we work on in training every week I have no idea.

They must be still tired and low on energy from the Wolves game, oh hang on a moment, that was 14 days ago.

He would have to be Superman to undue all Macca's bad work in one week.

Absolute shiite. An embarrassment. You would have thought they might have wanted to make amends for last weeks shambles. How wrong can you be.
Disgraceful.

I fear next weeks crowd will be a poor show.

think we relied on orford too much at start of season. since hes been out we have just gone downhill.
he organised us on the pitch and came up with awesome plays to put people over.

Shouldnt have signed players that are incapable of playing to a game plan then, or players that lack basic skills, such as passing accuratley, marking, and wrapping the ball up in the tackle.

The reason youve seen such a poor team for the past 4 seasons is because Steve McNamara has put it together and he doesn't have a bloomin clue what he is doing.

I'm pig sick of it, and I'm pig sick of him.

I can not wait till he's no longer here, and he can take all his crap with him for all I care.

Our inablity to defend is more of a concern IMHO.

The players are told to play to the game plan by the coach, and players like Sykes are played in roles that they aren't good enough for by the coach. Macca has alot to answer for, we get stuffed last week but his priorities were england, his club needed him this week but he had other priorities.

Correct.

cant see situation improving much next week. We had 5 of our 1st choice 17 out today and only langley and orford to come back into contention next week. Langley will certainly help with out defense down nero/reardons wing and orford will give us the direction we've been so obviously missing but dont think that will be enough to get a result against wire. and thats assuming both do return, with the constant langley a week away comments combined with us looking for a loan forward I suspect his injury is a lot worse than club are admitting.

I'm off for a brew before I blow my top.

and yet going into this game we had 4th best defense in league. Think langleys absence is key to breakdown in our defense last few weeks. He gets through a hell of a lot of work defensively. Worrincy and whitehead try their best but are a little too lightweight and not in same class. Although whitehead definitely has potential.

You have to question the decision by the coaches to take Wardle off. He was the one of the only ones in attack who looked threatening and he won us the ball twice with 2 big hits.

England are in for a treat come this four nations

milk, 2 sugars pls

Stop bringing facts into it.

Apparently Cummins has banned Macca from giving his legendary half time team talks.

We're not disputing the fact that we have had good defence on the whole this season. It is however very worrying that we can concede so much 2 games on the bounce, and nearly 50 against Crusaders (who have been off form the last few weeks aswell).

If Langley doesn't get back soon then we need to be worried.

Are we not blaming it on the tough Easter weekend, or the Wire challenge cup game anymore?

apart from hauruki's 2 tries they mainly scored down the wings. Langleys absence the obvious weakness down reardon/neros side. Makes you appreciate how much work platt gets through on other side though.

I'm already worrying about Langley, we've been told he's due back a few times already. At what point in this weeks training did they decide he wasn't up to it ?

I got impression he wouldnt be playing from comments he made in his article on T&A on friday (I think). certainly seems a bit ridiculous that we get told he's a week away for, I think, 5 weeks running. Thought had crossed my mind that maybe contract talks have broken down and he's taken his bat and ball home although in his defence that would be out of character.

I've given up guessing. Im not thinking he's back until we hear a "will" instead of "might"

Dont we keep hearing 'will'?

And yet coming out of it we are 7th. Anyway, that's irrelevant, we cant defend for toffee.
Our defence has been to weak for to long.