He did seem to be plodding today. Of the threequarters, only Murphy really looked to be on the pace today.

my lad who stands below the flats has just mentioned that he over heard JK shouting to get smurf to full back

The bloke next to me had to remind Daryl 'Mediocre' Millard that he was covering FB after the restart; it would have been funny if it wasn't.

That would suggest we have a back up system

Yeah, folk used to moan about Atkins but he has alot more go forward than Millard has shown to date. Murphy has shown more go forward than him too...just shows we do not have to fly folk half way round the world just look what under our noses. Tronc can go now for me too.

yep. tronc and millard so far very disappointing, blanch was awful again. sam did not know if he was playing scrum half or hooker. in defense we were actually bumping into each other and falling over! LAZY AND DISORGANISED.

And unfortunately that sums up his abilities.

Oh and the one decent pass he gave to Morton.

Get a grip - some people just see what they want to see...

[url=http://www.superleague.co.uk/statistics_player.php?hs1=2010&hp1=2700&hs2=2010&hp2=2876&stat=tries&season=2010Millard vs Murphy[/url

[url=http://www.superleague.co.uk/statistics_player.php?hs1=2010&hp1=2700&hs2=2010&hp2=2162&stat=tries&season=2010Millard vs Atkins[/url

So, Millards stats are way better than Smurph and not that far behind Ryan - and we ended up with a cash injection that kept us a club.

Don't think there is one person who would not have done that piece of business at the time!

I believe we did the right thing selling Atkins,but i wouldnt have gone half way across the world for a distinctly average replacement.

I don't think there was too much fuss or worry on this board about us losing atkins, and we are / were expecting a better replacement (which is not the case according to the stats)

I like the others have not seen any evidence of the magic, and as the poster above has stated I wouldnt have gone to aus to sign an average replacement. I will give him more time but I was expecting to see more.

When Millard dropped the ball late in the second half, it pretty much summed up our day... An absolute embarrassment. To be fair, Murphy should have been put to full back but that must be put down to a bad coach decision.

We are the bloody laughing stock of the Super League this weekend.

Millard looks good when chasing attacking kicks but does not look sharp with ball in hand.

You keep saying that, but nobody is laughing, nobody is trolling on here, on the VT nor on the TotalRL forums, nobody is bothered. Crusaders are a decent team this year and will beat a few more teams on their travels.

take your self out and have a word

More concerning for me was the fact that Millard was on the wing for 90% of the game. I think Millard and George could be a good combination, if used correctly.

You can see that he has potential but he not going to be able to show that it if we take five drives than a kick. I’ve seen him play in the NRL, he is a lot better than what we have seen so far.

Bad day at the office, we all have them, let’s move on and get behind the team.

It was a simple mix up in cummunication between Beans and JK. He told Beans to put Smurph to FB and JD to right centre with Hendo slotting in for JD, but Beans misheard him and put Millard there instead.

the whole team was back to front from the start imo

explain???

How can Millard show much of anything when the only rugby we are playing is pass from play the ball and drive it in,do this for four or five times and then try to pass the ball along the and by the time it gets to Millard everyone is static so what then either pass to his winger or try to beat his opposition,not much chance when the ball takes an age to get to him.

Surely this is worse than Millard playing their by choice? How long does it take to get the message out to correct things? Given the amount of time the trainer/physio spends on the park this could have been corrected within seconds.....

How many other messages are getting lost in translation or mixed up?

a few!! Think they had a problem with the radio/headsets. JK cant correct the problem if Beans can't hear him......that's why he was shouting

well we had Millard on the wing with George and Murphy in the centres. we had Cooke at LF and he stood out in the centres the whole game. Latu was named at 9 but he seemed to play everywhere but dummy half, i don't think he had a clue what he was doing or supposed to be doing. Sam was supposed to be at 7 but was at dummy half. Tronc was on teh bench but hardly played although Richie Moore frequently looked like he had played himself to exhaustion.

Just looked like a clueless selection in a desperate attempt to shake things up to me.

Millard going to FB just completed the whole match perfectly.

anybody heard how blaymire is for next week?

would we let the new lad from bradford have a run, or will gleeson be back (with murphy at FB)??

I would go for

1. Smurf
2. Blanch
3. George
4. Millard
5. Morton
6. Davey
7. BJ
8. Gledhill
9. Obst
10. Moore
11. Fergy
12. Morro
13. Cooke

14. Latu
15. Korky
16. King
17. JD

Back to basics.
Bring back Ben. Davey has played as a half back before, so lets see what he can do in a "no pressure" game, if he does well roll with it. We played our best last year when we were on the bones of our ar*e in terms of injuries, IMO we need to go back to basics and put our faith in kids that WANT TO PLAY!!!!

1. Blaymire
2. M.King
3. Murphy
4. Johnson
5. Morton
6. Cooke
7. Jefferies
8. Gledhill
9. Davey
10.King
11. Trout
12. Morrison
13. Annakin

s. Obst
s. Moore
s. Korkidas
s. Ferguson