Evidence strongly points to it being a player/cultural problem. Get red of the chaff and judge Powell when he has his players working under his culture. Get rid of Powell and the lazy booty/complacent/don't give a monkeys players who don't give a damn about our club have won.

Doesn't the fact that he dropped 2 of his own signings show that letting him get his own team in time, may be a problem in itself.

Watch King just stand idly by for Wakefield the cross field kick try in the first half, then the appalling tackle attempt in the 2nd half where they scored. Why is he not dropped? He offers nothing.

Blimey you lot get carried away. Trinity were the better team all game IMHO. However you only lost due to an astonishing tackle from young Murphy (future international at this rate and probably the fastest in SL at present). Had he not made that tackle you'd have won. I think you and a few other clubs need to accept that SL has tightened up and the margins are slim. Even Toulouse can give most teams a game, just turning up won't do it anymore.

You have the talent but they are living on reputation at present, I feel for Powell. A man I know and don't especially like but he is all the same a very good coach.

Went to watch the airshow at RAF Cosford yesterday and there wasn't a decent data signal to keep tabs on the game. Turned out to be a good thing as it would have ruined a very good day at the air show.

I really don't know what the answer is to this situation. I feel a bit sorry for Powell in that he's got the record for turning clubs around but may have met his match in Warrington. Sacking him now won't help anything, unless we are in serious danger of relegation (and I don't think we're there yet). We'll just end up with another false dawn as an unproven NRL coach struggles to do anything with us. I just have a sneaky feeling that a shaken-up squad with a fresh start next year (and much lower expectations and less pressure) will help Powell get the best out of us. The problem is whether the catastrophe of this season will be accepted by the fans and the board.

Since I don't have the answers I'm not going to go through the same old moans like I normally would. I'll sit back and relax, and wait as patiently as I can for the start of the '23 season. Like most catastrophes, it's probably not one major cause, it's a multitude of smaller reasons that have built up over the years and combined in such a way to create the perfect storm. We need a Steve Jobs style resurrection of the club.

We have conceded 162 points in the last 5 games and not won since April. It's more than just a tackle.

In truth there is little more we can do. No one forces us to go to the games.

I meant on that one game. It's all very tight.

Perhaps he doesn't want to show bias. It's certainly not all straight forward and Powell certainly hasn't been perfect with his selection of players he's dropped/kept playing. But I still have faith in him to improve things medium to long term.

This is a good point. At this moment in time, the balance of power is still weighed in favour of the players as there are obviously quite a few who aren't willing to change and they're perhaps negatively influencing less senior players to varying degrees.

This balance will hopefully change as the playing staff change but while they're here this season, we're going to have to ride it out.

Rumours about three Aussie signings and having so many players out of contract doesn't help the confidence of the players. However I refuse to believe that members of the World Cup squad have become bad players overnight. Baffling and inconsistent team selection, playing like headless chickens and woeful defence can only be put down to poor man mangement and coaching. It's easy to criticise players and we all have our "favourites". Powell's signings (excluding the injured } have not so far resulted in rave reviews and I'm not crazy about the Catalan pair. It's clear he'll see the season out but it's blatantly obvious it's chaos behind the scenes.

That gives me an idea. Has anyone got an R2 unit they can send with a Princess Leia plea of "help me Obi-wan Kenobi you're are only hope"?

Can we have C3PO for left centre?

I agree that DP needs time, and were not [iyet[/i staring relegation in the face. However, there's absolutely no sign that this squad (and that includes players that he has brought in, with the exception of the injured) has done nothing but disintegrate since 2021. The selection policy is just mindboggling, and were risking the future of the academy, if talent continues to treated in such a way as they have so far under Powell. I cannot see anything to suggest that there's an upward curve coming our way, and were seriously heading towards relegation as our performances have on the whole been championship standard this season. Even the three wins we achieved at the start of 2022, were on the back of three poor performances. I agree that we have to go backwards to allow us to build for a GF victory, but not that far backwards that we land in the championship.

Time to bring in a top notch psychologist (to work on our fans) not sure what the answer is for the team.

Our left centres circuits appear to be unserviceable, so why not.

We'll be fine, CH, expectations have been rebooted to those of 2002.

We beat Wakefield once out of three games in 2002.

That helped keep us up.

Sure did and the win at Hull under Plange. The Wire "50".

End of the season under Cullen the lads switched off (recurrent 20 year old theme) and lost by 50 - 10.

Expectations have now been dialled down another notch.

He's picked Philbin for GB.

2002, Halifax away, I was there…..vintage performance.

Doesn’t tell us much that hasn’t already been talked about, but the missed tackle count is embarrassing. https://www.superleague.co.uk/match-centre/report/3667 Cooper and Clark, in the World Cup squad with a missed tackle rate between 15% & 20%.

Doesn’t tell us much that hasn’t already been talked about, but the missed tackle count is embarrassing. https://www.superleague.co.uk/match-centre/report/3667 Cooper and Clark, in the World Cup squad with a missed tackle rate between 15% & 20%.

At least on Saturday we will get to see some wire players win, and we can remember the good old days ha ha ha
The defense was so poor it was unreal, if we had even average defense we would have won that game
Toby King......what's happened.....new contract new you....just a worse you.
Also Wane picking Philbin, Ratchford etc.......is he having a laugh at our expense or is he just playing the players he is thinking of dropping anyway just to make sure.

For International fixtures, (I realise that Saturday`s game is a glorified friendly), the host club frequently have players selected, to boost interest for the home crowd.

Ratchford and Philbin wouldn`t be in the squad, if the game was being played at Headingly.