The Knives are going to be out at the Toulouse Match.

Knowing our fans. There will be a few people in the North and East Stand who will cheer and clap for anything. But the VAST majority of people will be out for blood. I guarantee that we will here "we want Powell out" chants and "Tony Smiths Barmy army"

I was at the Cas Match in 2008 when the crowds knives were out. If I remember rightly. Sit in protest. The crowd chanting "Cullen out" and "Classy Cas". And It wasn't much better when they finally got them out. Cas Were cheered by the crowd at the front door and the 1st team barricaded themselves in the stadium and not wanting to come out.

I now have this mental picture that our fitness coach is a pre-school child who is not yet potty trained. I hope that's not the case, but cannot be sure of anything this season.

This 1000%

If Sheridan has been and is still in charge of the defence, he has to be the one to go ASAP, for someone else to give us a new defensive structure.

I completely understand wanting to get rid of Powell, and I have been in that camp most of the season, but whoever is in charge of the defensive structure is the one who needs to go first. And if that is Powell then he will need to go. But we seem to be averaging a solid amount of points per game. But the first leak that needs plugging is the defence.

Maybe Richard Marshall steps in to replace Sheridan?

I'm not sure if we (HKR)can raise a decent enough team for Thursday against Toulouse either and do you a favour aswell.

No no and no. Whoever is in charge of the defence Powell is in charge of them. Stop making excuses for him, he’s terrible and has been since day one. A couple of Wire fans I know saw this coming upon his appointment and how right they were.

Come on everyone, don't forget that we're a project and we have to give Powell chance to take us down to the Championship before he shows us how good we really are against Barrow, York and Halifax.

He has to go NOW, before the too late for us.

#emporersnewclothes

Fixed that for you!

Courtesy from the Warrington guardian and Powell's latest excuses - " He also point to a key turning point in the second half when Matt Dufty appeared to be a tripped chasing a Stefan Ratchford kick, when in the act of scoring.

Nothing was given and of a seven tackle set, Joe Bullock was sin binned and Wire conceded 12 points while he was off.

"Thems the breaks and at the moment, we aren't getting them," he said."

Aren't getting the breaks at the moment? What about all season??

It's quite simple, if he's not sacked then we're down.

The board have got a chance to save us at the moment, if they don’t act I will be holding them responsible.

Not a chance. Karl will be tweeting about a sale at the club shop tomorrow.

As much as 'chain of command' makes some sense, if Powell isn't the one putting together the defensive structure, he's not to blame for it. If I make a mistake at work for the job I'm employed to do, that's not my bosses fault is it? That's mine!

They've worked together for years, so if the understanding is that Sheridan runs the defence and that's his job, the simple solution is to remove the defensive problem. It has been well documented that Powell is in charge of attack, and he's averaging 20 points per game. Smith and Price were 24 per game. But it's not impossible for us to score. We just can't defend. So the person in charge of the defence goes first, but that doesn't mean Powell should go just because his 'employee' is doing a bad job. Unless they come as a package deal.

Nonsense. Powell should’ve removed him a while ago if that’s the case. Powell has ultimate responsibility for our results, that is his job. If he cannot make us into a decent side then it is all on his shoulders. If he is blindly loyal to underperforming players and staff then that makes him culpable for what is dished up.

Neither of them are fit for purpose.

In the name of God, go

Dufty off for a scan and Mikaele unlikely to play against Wigan.

That aspect I fully understand, but again, if he's not in charge of the defensive structure, it's not specifically his fault that we can't defend well... So yes, he should remove Sheridan, but Powell is putting us in a position to score a solid number of points.

I'm not saying Powell is innocent in all of this, far from it... But if we had to make a decision on who goes, if we remove Powell, we run the risk of being unable to score at all with a new HC. But if we remove the one in charge of defence, we at least roll the dice of getting a stronger one in return, since we already choke games as it is.

I'm not 'Powell In' by any means... I've made plenty of posts condemning him, but between him and Sheridan, logically Sheridan goes first. But that's IF he's the one building the defensive structure.

If we were getting beat by teams at full strength, battling valliantly and just falling short I'd be heartbroken.

But we are getting beat out of sight by teams with much worse injury problems than us, we are being out enthused and we are wallowing in self pity, apathy, look totally unmotivated and like a bunch of strangers.

I'm not heartbroken, I'm fuming and everyone associated with the club should be.

Powell carries the can for our results. It's his backroom team, and there's nothing more to say.
I think that Sheridan should go first, then if Powell is sacked it ensures that Fitzpatrick cannot hand control to Sheridan, even on a temporary basis.

You can always rely on the Wire



Just another quick roll in the glitter, be fine then for next week

Damaging day all round.
Grim time to be a Wire fan.

You shouldn't have got rid of Lee Briers he's turned the Wigan attack around

Responsibility vs accountability.

Sheridan may be responsible for overseeing the drills, but the structure and ethos is handed down by the head coach.

It also doesn’t point to being just Sheridans fault. We have similar issues with fitness, conceding on 38 minutes and running out of steam on 65.

We also don’t kick the ball effectively, never really scoring from kicks or building pressure from repeat sets.

All of these small breakdown areas can’t be blamed on coaches and junior staff. The head coach is accountable for them all.

It’s clear that this isn’t working. Again, conceding too many points, unable to close out a lead against significantly weakened opposition. It’s almost comical now.

While no single incident is going to change how bad we are, Inwas right in line with this and it was a definite trip. Very hard to take considering Bullock was sinbinned only a few minutes later for a similar incident after a kick through.

I remember seeing a tv piece on Cas ,maybe last time they went to Wembley & it implied Sheridan was the master tactician.