Its over
Taken some big beatings
Introduced some youth
18’s and 20’s played some decent stuff
Injuries took there toll
Although we played some expansive rugby it was very hap hazard
Good win at the Pies
The Orr/Randall switch (7&9) wasn’t right

The best word is disastrous. Compare us to the Crusaders who effectively started from scratch 2 weeks before the start of the season and have now reached the play-offs. After 30 years we've finished one from bottom winning 7 matches out of 27, with understandably still declining gates. Perhaps now the shareholding and ownership issues are settled things will look up, but I'm not hopeful!

If you can't hold on to the ball, you can't win games.

Glad it is over
inability to complete 6 tackles/losing ball on 1st tackle/losing ball in own 25 - you can have the best attack in the league but you will not win many.........................................

Let's face it it was e! Glad its over, worst season for some considerable time!

One we'll all want to forget. Somewhat inexplicably, a group of McDermott believists here decided that it isn't the coach's fault if a team plays poorly and loses matches. For much of the season the team simply wasn't at the races. It wasn't just the lack of experience; There was quite obviously a lack of skill and finesse in the side. Still, at least 2011 presents the chance of a fresh start with a new coach and (hopefully) some improved personnel.

On the positive side, Jones-Bishop was excellent and I like the look of Andy Ellis. Lamont Bryan played his heart out every game - he's the new Joe Mbu; Which presumably means he'll get released twice, because we're 'recruiting a better class of player' then we raid Hull KR for some of their rejects. FFS.

Agree re Lamont and Andy Ellis. Actually though David Mills played well, thought he was a dead loss first time around but this time much better going forward, though he must improve his handling...................

Typical negative, predictable and boring comments!!!!!!!!!!




How about looking for positives, like being 7th in clean breaks made this season, and 3rd in the list of most offloads.

3rd in off loads is an incredible stat when you think the big teams these days have placed a greater emphasis on it

We finished second bottom you lemon, who cares about having he 7th most clean breaks (incidentally, what a laughable stat to be proud of, not to mention coming in 7th)

What he said!!

And it seems you get so much joy at us coming second from bottom!!
MUG!!

Andy Ellis looks good and McDermott has gone.

I think Williamson's attempted conversion on Friday summed it up, A for effort but nowhere near good enough. Unless the club get a make over, a new coach with new ideas and some go forward we will soon be back in the swamp that has been Quins RL.
We have to catch the imagination of the London RL fans first and make some sort of splash on the conciousness of the London sporting public, how? I have no idea, but a winning team would help.

I'm not sure on the A for effort side. Too many times it seemed like mental weakness. Players like JOC are the Jamie Carraghers of our team; they may not be the best, but he leaves the field knowing that he put his full heart and soul into the game. Didn't see that from many others.

It is the first time at the Stoop that I have seen so many games where teams have been out of sight and taken their foot of the gas, ie Huddersfield and Wigan. We were beaten teams, and we had very little to trouble them.

Core skills of catching the ball and a quick whip pass, ie the Salford game at the Stoop, where we dominated the game, but Salford won with quick accurate wide passes that won them a game that territorially we dominated and looked a decent side.

The wrestle is an issue, we just seem unable to dominate on the floor. Perhaps a visit from a wrestling coach may be a good use of a few hundred quid for a one-off session.

I seem to recall watching a dvd / documentary on this subject some time ago, a lot of northern clubs do this on a regular basis

You react about as well to criticism as Ricky Gervais.

How can you possibly be satisfied with the 2010 season? Really, that's not a rhetorical question, I'd geniunely like to know what all the positives are.

Disappointing, depressing even at times. Don't think poor results were down to a lack of effort - more to do with a lack of real size and quality in the pack and a lack of direction/confidence. Crowd figures are desperate and I fear it'll take more than a moderately successful side to boost them. I'd go for regular Friday night football. It may not be good for the away fans but the Stoop has a good buzz about it on a Friday night which may help to attract the type of fan who attends for the beer and the craic rather than the rugby itself.

Positives, as said by others;
We appear to still be in business despite rumours to the contrary only a week or two ago.
Young Londoners breaking through - I know some on here don't rate all of them but the fact they are coming through in numbers can only be a good thing. Importing the bulk of your players from the North/Down Under is not sustainable despite the short term gains.
Ellis and Randall are as good as any club has at no' 9
It's the off-season (for us at least) so we can dream for a while about some star signings!

If a picture can paint a thousand words.........

Sorry, but finding out we have at least 1 more year to go in SL is all that was positive about 2010 both on and off the pitch.

The main thing is results. These were the worst in my nine seasons of regular support.

Positives? We attempted to play entertaining rugby and at times we had as many as 16 Englishmen in our 17 man squad. But these are only really positives if you believe we couldn't have achieved better results by adopting a different approach. Crusaders threw their squad together well after everyone else had done the bulk of their recruitment, found loads of unheralded Aussies who were available (I believe they had dispensation to recruit more than the rest of us), yet still won nearly twice as many matches as us and made the play-offs.

I only saw eleven matches this season, my lowest since 2001, because I was disillusioned with what I was seeing. We won two of these and lost nine. The home wins against Castleford and Crusaders were exciting high scoring matches and the defeat at Saints was a valiant performance in a match we might have won with fewer individual errors at crucial moments; the other eight games were all lost without ever really looking likely to win. We were repeatedly outplayed and outfought. Watching the Warrington game with a friend who supports the opposition, and to my knowledge hasn't missed a game home or away all season, he turned to me during the first half and almost in disbelief asked if our defence was always so poor. I had to tell him it was the norm.

Losing is one thing if there's hope that the situation will improve. Other than David Hughes pledging to pay the bills for another season I'm not convinced there is any long term trend towards improvement on the field. Trying to be optimistic, we're guaranteed a new coach for next year so there must be a chance that, whoever he is, he can rejuvenate the squad and raise the level of performance on the field.

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and we have been too weak defensively, especially on the right. O'Callaghan and Clubb have been a revolving door all season.

I can’t understand why Mac didn’t coach Clubb to stay in the line in defence-I would expect low grade players to understand the benefits of a straight line defence rather than making the decision for the attacker which Clubb does week after week.

Off Topic I apologise-but this has really annoyed me all season-as well as contributing to my thoughts that Mac isn’t an intelligent coach

Quote ="morethanenuff"and we have been too weak defensively, especially on the right. O'Callaghan and Clubb have been a revolving door all season.'" I would be very interested to see an opposition try graphic showing where tries were scored against us in 2010. I would imagine most would be around the right centre position. JOC's first full season in first-grade, and he has been outside someone who in 2010 could not be relied on defensively. I think defending outside Tony Clubb, who IS a second-row or possibly even a prop the way we need front-rowers, would be like running on chip batter, whilst trying to keep out cohesive attacks from co-ordinated teams. www.dailymotion.com/video/xekvn5 ... e-one_tech Tony Clubb get back to the pack!

Quote ="morethanenuff"and we have been too weak defensively, especially on the right. O'Callaghan and Clubb have been a revolving door all season.'" I would be very interested to see an opposition try graphic showing where tries were scored against us in 2010. I would imagine most would be around the right centre position. JOC's first full season in first-grade, and he has been outside someone who in 2010 could not be relied on defensively. I think defending outside Tony Clubb, who IS a second-row or possibly even a prop the way we need front-rowers, would be like running on chip batter, whilst trying to keep out cohesive attacks from co-ordinated teams. www.dailymotion.com/video/xekvn5 ... e-one_tech Tony Clubb get back to the pack!

Enjoyed most games. Compared to the second half of the 2009 season where the game plan was to play it safe by grinding down to the opposition line (and then fail to score from ten metres out) this season was a joy. No more safety first. The pack was too lightweight to boss the opposition so it had to be death or glory. So either a lot of dropped ball or a lot of breathtaking breaks and tries - eg Willy's breaks like his length of the field Offiah by breaking the line and swerving round the full back, or that sublime reverse pass from Howell to Dorn for the 'now you see him now you don't' try of the season.

As mentioned above there was no lack of effort, so even after a marmalising 80 minutes of mistake ridden rugby there was hope that next week would be different. And it was.

Predictability is death to sport and predictable is what Quins 2010 was not. Results only matter if they don't come easily. (Cf the bored Wigan contingents making their way to the umpteenth Wembley of the nineties.) So the few good results and the sparkling tries that gained them were worth the wait. Yup, a pretty enjoyable season all round. Even when the results weren't going Quins way there was still the wonderful ground, the brilliant L&L, the good company and the opposition play to enjoy ... with the knowledge that next week would be different.

When does the season ticket reminder arrive?