How much blame should be put on his doorstep for today's performance



IMO he picked the wrong team for a start, playing in the wrong positions and regardless of how much input TS had during the week, the job of getting the team ready was left with one man and he failed.

I was confidant before the game started that we would win despite us having our two forwards missing, the lads should by now know what TS expects of them but today it was like watching the team that played 11 weeks ago again under the guidance of Mr Lowes.

Interesting that TS commented on Teletext that he thought his England commitment played no part on today's result but i disagree, if TS was in charge throughout the week in training etc etc then i think we would have seen a major difference in today's performance and have no doubt that with him back at the helm we will beat the Dragons on Saturday.

nah

Jimmy could have posted his exit notice today along with a few of the players, couldnt see many playing like they wanted a new contract for next season out fo those that need to.

Couldn't agree more, surely Lowes wont be given another contract.

yeah, 1st defeat in 6, what a disgrace

I'm on about Lowes not the team, we haven't won a game this year with Lowes in charge. played 5 lost 5 and if you include the games at the end of last year he lost about 5 or maybe 6 on the bounce, he isn't good enough to be an assistant never mind a first-team coach.

TS doesn't agree......

Che Smith has decided to keep him on as Assistant coach.

What happened to "In Smith we trust"?

LWF knows better.

The plan was clearly to have Monas as interchange hooker - something that many posters on here have demanded all season. Losing Briers scuppered that, and we looked disorganized from the moment he went off.

LWF doesn't know better but LWF has an opinion that's the difference.

Can't blame Lowes, would only imagine he has been following instructions all week.

TS would have strugled to pick a good team with Higham, Westwood and Morley out. Then to top that losing Briers.

We could have easily lost to Cas as we played poor, sounds like Bradford were just less poor than us

Do you see that as a good call seen as Bridge has been excellent at centre and pretty average at HB, Clarke has played 80 mins many times and doesn't need an interchange hooker although if you were going to play one then surely you play Thompson rather than disrupt the team further by chopping and changing positions.

Any chance of a lock on this thread??...



Surely the 'slagging off Jimmy Lowes' thing got a bit tedious about 3 months ago??

P.S...LWF??....Yes, we know Jimmy ain't much cop, it doesn't need you waffling on about it to prove it...

He left it to his assistant coach....He took the england squad away to play, and im sorry guys but if he cant go away and trust his assist coach to do the job, then Lowes has a lot to answer to!
Tony had the England job before he came to you, so its not his fault i dont think. So get off his back chummies and open your eyes and your brain receptors...blahhhh

Thats rich coming from you pirate....ha ha listen to the kettle calling the frying pan grimy butt....go back on your ship

At the end of the day the result had nothing to do with lack of coaching or effort it was down to lack of composure an example being that we gave the ball away four times on the 1st tackle which meant 20 less tackles for bradford and 20-odd more for us.

Whilst I don't blame Lowes, it was a very Lowes-esque performance. Ie, it was what we were churning out week in week out pre Smith. It's difficult for us to know why that was, we're not in the camp, i'm sure that Smith will get to the bottom of it, what was clear from minute one though was that we had no shape, our defensive structures were poor, and every collision Bradford looked like winning, I thought they looked like making a bust every touch of the ball, they looked fitter and had far more appetite for the game, which annoys me.

When I turned up today I said to the guy beside me if we lose this everyone's gonna blame jimmy and he agreed!
It was a very jimmy like performance, but we were due a loss. all those people that have been thinking of 10 game winning runs needed a reality check. hopefully that has come today and we can put that behind us and realise we're not invincible and we need to realise we've pulled things back well this season but there's a lot of hard work to do!
If we lose next week aswell, will that be down to Tony or the same players who played this week? Anyone is going to struggle losing 3 of their best players plus Briers.

Cheers Jimmy.

believe what you want lowes in charge and yet another defeat no effort'no passion, no heart. no chance when lowes is in charge

Lowes Out!

Fingers crossed, I think he will go at the end of the year.

What a bizarre thread !!