.. of Australia please......

Imagine the damage he could do to their team by the time we play them next.

noble out lowes in at wigan!

What you saying you dummies?

It aint Lowes fault that Smith decided on taking our best forwards over to France on a pointless exercise and that Briers got injured and that Cullen signed a hooker to play at scrum half!

I can tell you that for the first time this year somebody (Lowes) actually realised the fact that Monas is not a scrum half and had him on the bench to play as impact hooker which was his forte in Oz. It back fired when Briers got injured, we all had to suffer to watch him at 7.

We would not have won that game with or without Briers anyways. We were getting embarressed before he left the field injured. We had little penatration.
Perhaps we may of had a little hope if we'ed have started the game with Carvell along sides Rah as opposed to the lightweight Paul Wood...?

I agree with Rubber Duckie on this one...It seems Lowes is blamed for everything, he didn't have the same team to work with, that TS has had over the last few weeks.

An whatever people think of Briers he is missed when he doesn't play.

who you calling dummy, it doesn't matter what happened on sunday as far as lowes is concerned, look at his track record pre smith, hardly at the level of an international coach was it? so hence a whitty comment made in jest whith a twist of irony, without doubt the aussies or wigan would achieve less with lowes in charge...... dummy!

not once was sundays performance brought into question, bringing mona on as a hooker was a good idea, probably not lowes' to be honest, if it had worked it would been proof that he's a hooker rather than a stand off or scrum half but briers injury put paid to that!

i agree that we had a weaker squad out, none of that was an issue when it came to taking the pee out of J.L's ability as a coach, which tbh is poor to average at best!

so rubber dummy back off!

see you in barcelona??

Maybe you should ask why did Lowes change the preparation of the team away from what Smith had previously been doing.

good point, thank you!

Are you being serious?

Yes.

During the week or pre-match?

i think smith would have done things differently than lowes once briers became injured tbh, which may or may not have had an impact on the outcome.

some of the players according to a sponsor talking to the players after game said that "we were flat in training all week and flat in the game, i don't why"

I won't state which player(s) said that but i am telling the truth as to what i've been told.

During the week, don't know about pre-match.

i think morley has a maSSIVE morale boosting effect on our team with him PMA on the field, without that "belief" we revert to P.S. (PRE SMITH)

[iMonday[/i

"Right lads, Tony's left some notes. Today we're concentrating on ball kicking.

Right. The way we used to do it was like this - stand in pairs opposite each other and remove any protective cups. Gareth, your opposite Lee, good you can go first. Swing your leg as hard as you can & wallop him in the nuts. We go down the line in your pairs, Last one standing is the winner. Away you go Gareth."

[iTuesday[/i
"Ok fellas Tony's asked me to tweak your diet for this weekend. I've had a word with me mate down at the gym & he's prescribed 2 lard smoothies a day till game day. "

[iWednesday[/i
"Mornin lads. Tony's said today we need to toughen up in the tackle area.
The way we used to do it was like this - stand in pairs opposite each other and remove any protective cups. Gareth, your opposite Lee, lovely, you 2 are getting along smashin'. Swing your leg as hard as you can & wallop him in the nuts. We go down the line in your pairs, First one to flinch is a tart. Away you go Gareth..... Is the St Johns man here...Lee's a funny shade of purple"

[iThursday[/i
"Ow do Tony, aye the lads are doing fine, their diet has been adjusted as per your instructions & I've done a few old Bradford drill to concentrate on the areas you wanted to. There's a doubt over Lee Briers as he's been throwing up in training & looks like he's ridden a horse."

[iFriday[/i
Ok lads Tony's asked me to do 2 sessions today. First one is a video study. I've got a bootleg of Star Trek & there'll be a quiz after. Winner gets double lard.

Right onto the training. Tony's asked if we can look at winning the ruck by doing some wrestling. Well in my day we did Yorkshire wrestling which went like this...stand in pairs opposite each other and remove any protective cups..... oh have you done this before. Now Lee..... Leee ????? Any one seen him ??"

And your point is????????????????

i think the inference is that steve 51 questions jimmy lowes' training techniques some what, what do you think?
i might be wrong

Buck stops with Smith. He wanted Lowes as his right hand man.

One loss for god sake and your all acting like Saints fans!!! Smith was always going to be in charge of England we all knew that. Im not blaming Lowes for the loss as the players havent played great in the past few games, Bradford just punished them. Although i do like Lowes training plan

For sake it's called having a sense...never mind I couldn't be d explaining.