Rumour has it we've been rubbish last few weeks, turned out to be true today.

Done deal on a three year contract. Wish he was staying at Wakefield.

correction - months

except that wasn't a rumour!

Rumour is the players are going to eat raw meat for the next 7 days, come out all guns blazing and with a real fire in their belly from the first whistle at Cas next Friday night. Then they can put the PowderPuff Pack rumour to bed.

I stand by my point that we need an enforcer - our props are good hard working forwards with a lot of weight, but they need a leader.

i dont think its the forwards letting us down now... its the backs apart from brough

You only need to look at the metres made yesterday and the breaks through the middle to see the forwards are flagging. Two things stuck out for me yesterday. 1. Salford were on the break, were brought down and got a quick play the ball. Kopczak didn't move his feet whilst a player ran right past him and put the ball down between the sticks. 2. Salford on the break, were brought down and Eorl turned his back to jog slowly back to the defensive line whilst Salford got another quick ptb.
Effort in Line speed -THATs what is letting us down.
Rumour has it the players have lead in their boots!

we are not completing sets....

this puts pressure on everything else

we have made the most tackles in super league

we wont win many more games till we sort this problem out

Not the forwards letting us down Brearley? Get real. They certainly let Broughy down, each and every one of them should have been in and knocked seven bells out of the Salford lot.I take you back to Nathan Browns first season our pack could compete with any in the league and did,our present lot are a set of pussies that cannot compete with the weakest packs in SL,when our captain was flattened our big men didn't even fart in Salfords direction.
We have two men on our coaching staff that have played RL at the highest level both international prop forwards, in my opinion these two should be instructed to turn our soft pack of pussies into a set of alley cats.If a side is going to be successful in RL it needs a good aggressive and talented set of forwards,our forwards may be talented but they lack
the required aggression.I am not advocating a set of players that are forever striking out at everything that happens but as a team first and foremost you look after your team mates.

have they the stomach for that FP ??

Get the lad who did the half time draw as "tackle" and "sort em out " coach"

I know where he`d have been when the "rough stuff started " -no cotton picking doubt!! -

so our forwards are lacking aggression, but they have been improving as in laying the platform for the backs in the wins we have been picking up, the backs have been dropping the ball and making mistakes, yesterday is was bad day all round

bring fielden out of retirement

the only enforcers we have are kaufusi, wardle, brough, taai and ferres. they are tough nuts when they want to be

Pardon my french but we need two real nasty Bar steward props to come in and compliment Taai and Ferres and bang some heads together. we like a bunch of fairy's at the moment. what happened to 1 in all in? when Brough got flattened there should have been a sprint to get to the dirty sod. Then every tackle should have been a Joe Wardle bone cruncher after that!!! SOFT SOFT SOFT. Who we playing next week? oh its a week off against Huddersfield!!!

bang on that pal....they stood around watching Danny getting treated and not one of our guys even passed a comment to Tasi... we are way too soft as a group...is that because they all fell in love with themselves last year ? our forwards have about as much grunt as a mute pig these days !!

Spot on Crackers, in the Fartown days what we lacked in skill we more than made up for in aggression, heart and pride in that shirt. Tasi wouldnt have got off that pitch if he'd of done something like that with Gary Senior and Frank Simpson on the field!!!! I have never seen such a half hearted cant be d display from a team wearing the C&G, when they all watched and did nothing after the Broughy hit summed it up for me how we have been all season.

Spot on







"Hearts as big as peas" springs to mind, pathetic display, no great amount of pride or passion displayed out on the field, and as you say not one player lifted a finger or seemed too bothered when Broughy got flattened, the only bit of passion on show was from some bloke in the stand. Not too surprised we got a well deserved drubbing, it's been coming for a while now, I'm just surprised it's taken so long for teams to spot our glaring weaknesses. Can see Cas giving us a good battering on Friday too unless of course we have a plan "B" and don't wave the white flag untill we only have 1 man standing.

never mind gary senior and frank simpson, keith mason,darrell griffin, luke o'donnell,paul reilly,paul march et al from recent tie=mes would have made sure tasi got a fat lip as well as a red card!

After all the comments, it would be good for the Club to announce any new signings, contract extensions etc that will be coming up for next season. Could do with some good news!

The players we have now maybe more skilfull then there predecessors. However i do miss seeing the agression that used to be shown by our former players. On top of your list i can think of the following who would never have backed down from over physical play from the opposition and were never far a way from any trouble on the pitch.
Joe Naidole, Andy Dickinson,Alan Boothroyd, Gary Coulter, Rob Roberts, Darren Fleary, Jim Gannon, and Ben Roarty. The Giants have certainly had some tough characters over the years.
Just a couple of these such players in your side can make a big difference as the opposition will not take any liberties.

yep, even the more "genteel" players used to get stuck in, the likes of shuttleworth,hanger,greg austin,greg pearce, nothing wrong with a bit of biff if its in the right way, our lot don't seem to have and fighting spirit at all these days.

faiumu and cudjoe looked angry after the incident and were complaining to the ref too, these were the only two mind

thorman gave them a rollicking too when he ran on

Like all the rest were they snarling and giving nasty looks.Bet that upset Salford!!!!!!

Thorman is always rollicking them - makes me laugh! like the good old days when he was still playing half back- still does the same pointing and stabbing his finger towards the ground!

Nice one, just what I was thinking

I am a big fan of the biff.

However those days have gone. If say Wardle, Ukama or cudjoe come in and give Tasi a crack, they are looking at a minimum yellow card on the day followed up with decent ban.
We are then even more on our come Friday.

Then theres folk on here slagging off the player "for not being smart enough" and "not thinking of the team"

I do however agree that we should be being more aggressive in the tackle and trying to hurt them the right way.