Bit of a nothing interview. Clichés followed by nonsense. "We know what we need to do" - do you? "New players in the camp" - like every other club?

I prefer Powell's "we're miles off" honesty than this tripe. Though he blamed Easter after the Wigan schooling.

I have a feeling we'll end this season very strongly and with plenty of momentum.

I don't think it'll be enough to topple Saints but I reckon we'll be playing a hell of a lot better in August than we are right now.

Hooker Walker said: “I wasn’t on for the first half hour or so but a few of the lads said it was a really fast and really tough start to the game. We just weren’t quite there in that first period. We were off that little bit and Wigan just took advantage of that. Fair play to them.


Where does he think he is then a Sunday morning kick around.

I really like Walker as a player, and I admire his gumption, but I can't share the view that we are a "little off the mark" and the suggestion we could mount a challenge to Saints is, frankly, ludicrous.

We aren't losing because of the odd bad decision in defence, or bad luck - we are losing because we have two pedestrian half backs with no kicking game between them, an anaemic pack and a collective wbo are [irepeatedly[/i making basic, fundamental errors and seem to have lost all sense of desire, urgency and passion.

If we turn it around it will make the 86 Prem run look like a Sunday morning u9s sevens match.

I really like Danny Walker. Seems a lively lad with that bit of spark we need.
Making comments to the press or online is bound to bring criticism it's not easy to get it right.
He's brave or misguided to get involved. I think it's easier not to say too much.

When listening to players & coaches I reckon it is best not to expect anything that is earth shattering.
It's difficult to be original ... difficult when you lose and dead easy when your winning.

I don't know, you have gone and spoilt it now.

I do know Phil Blake didnt play in the final and Johnson started on the bench.

I was trying to post something optimistic rather than realistic

Phil Blake had gone back to Souths about 3 months earlier.

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“Yeah we were rubbish against Wigan. We won’t qualify for the play offs and I can’t see us improving until Powelly sacks at least half of my colleagues and brings in some quality, especially props, we need a lot of very big props”.
Can’t see that going down well with his team mates somehow. Which is why we get anodyne interviews like these, still I admire his optimism.

Doubt if Clark will still be at Wire when his current high salary contract expires, unless he is prepared to accept a much lower wage here.

Walker will be at Wire for a long time hopefully

Or

"We underperformed against Wigan, in fact we have not played to our potential all season and are not at the required standard at the moment. However, we have belief in ourselves and Powelly and we are going to work tirelessly in our defensive systems. If we get our defence to the level it was in 2021 there is no reason why we cannot have a real go in the playoffs. Youse got the best to come".

I like his attitude on and off the pitch.

Still just 22. He could develop into a very strong leader for the club. Added bonus of him being a Warringtonian.

Bit underwhelmed when we signed him, but happy to be proved wrong.

Definite edge about his game with a fervent desire to win games.

I think Walker is developing into a great player. He kicks the ball well for field position too at times, which if he could continue to develop would be a really helpful tool.

Nostalgia of Monaghan maybe influencing this, but I think back to 2011/2012 when we could do it on tackle 3 or 4 and pin teams down and really get on top of the field position. More often than not since then we’ve seen kicks caught on the full and then defending elusive backs at full flight making easy yards

I liked the attitude but we are a very long way off

I however think we have. That’s as good as it gets.

Packs win games.

Reading the quotes just makes me wonder if Super League players get media training these days. I'd love to know if he actually thinks that or if he's just answering with what he thinks the club wants him to say. It probably doesn't help Powell or the club if he's saying that and they know they're a year or two of recruitment and hard work off actually doing that.

I don’t believe what Danny said will hinder Powell, the team or the club whether he believes it or not. The coach and players know exactly where they are, whatever they say in public.

Agreed, in any media interview, Players/Coaches talk up their teams and chances.

Very rare for an interviewee to say we are crap and we`re not going to win many games.

Chris Hill came out in defence of the coach, and our lowly league position, saying how we’d get things right, it’s only so many games in and it’s not a sprint but how you finish..

It ended with the coach losing his job and us playing in the middle 8s.

He must be media trained to a degree, I mean it's not like he came out and stated publically that Jai Field offers very little other than pace is it? That would have been made him look really, really silly IMO.

As it stands he has given us a few admittedly fairly pointless soundbites, sure there is a long way to go and maybe we canplay ourselves in to some form and give ourselves a chance at the end of the season, it's unlikely in my eyes but you never know.

It’s the hope that kills you.

It’s a bit of a nothing piece isn’t it really? I do wonder if these guys have to take turns talking to the local papers (I mean sports people in general) - or do they get collared by someone on their way to the Chinese and asked questions?

I looked at the thread title, and thought we'd signed the long since dead Anglo/American comedian, Bob.

Mind you, judging by the performances, he'd've been an improvement.

Turns out, the players have all been smoking Bob Hope.

People place far too much importance on what players say in the media.

At the end of the day, if you are losing, it doesn't matter what you say, you are going to sound like you are talking poop.

If the Germans had won the Battle of Britain and occupied the UK, then all Churchill's talk about fighting them on the beaches would have sounded like Tony Smith saying we trained well all week.

I think Walker is a future Captain for us, always full of passion and enthusiasm, and if you watch him on the pitch he's always talking and you see him telling players where to go. And at 22 he'll get better and better


And yeah i think Clark will move on unless he can find his form again. But he does seem to be taking a battering at the minute like his body has finally had enough.