Can somebody tell me what the issue is here?
Ford jumped ship (he was committed to the RW and B wasn’t he!)
The club got wind and told him to go now so what’s worth all this debate?

The email from the fan to MC may have given him a poke to kick someone up the and get a press release issued but I doubt that it affected any content within the release.

Now have an option to demote MA, put him under a more experienced coach for 12 months to gain more experience or less surprising option, give the job to Gale.

I thought Carter was stubborn and doesn't listen to anyone.
Now he's caving because a guy on RW&B emailed him.
Get a grip.

I think you are correct here, I think a lot of our issues in attack are due to how slow we are and that all starts at the PTB where I don't think any of our Hookers are good enough at the moment. Hood is far to slow and so is Kay when it comes to that first Pass, Bowes is the best we have at it but is still not great but does have time to develop.

The problem is our play the balls are too slow, we don’t have a single forward who can win the collision, find his front and give us a quick play the ball!
Not disputing that the quality of our hookers isn’t good enough, with the exception of Bowes who is still young lad, learning the game and has loads of potential

Yep, that attacking issue we've got was definitely all Ford's fault

Jesus wept he only left a couple of days ago. Not saying it WILL improve bit at least give it a week or so. Bloody stupid post

You could tell the players were trying to move the ball more. We scored 2 tries out of doing it and had a long break.
It's just the ball is still moving too slowly.

We were just very lateral and still had no runners to give the ball carrier options. Lam, and to a lesser extent Reynolds, showed us how an effective half back combination should operate. Lam in particular had all the time in the world to decide what to do with the ball and had numerous options with which to use.

Talking about Reynolds. He’s out of contract and I’d be looking at him as a halfback option for 2024.

Has he now been forgiven by all those fans slagging him off when he was here before.
Shows that sometimes you have to stick with young players like Smith and give them time

I can’t remember people slagging him off, he only played 6 games and from memory he didn’t start all of them.
If there was criticism I think it was about why we signed him if we weren’t going to give him a fair go

I do.

But your other bit is exactly the point. A young lad learning shouldn't just be thrown in. Sometimes you buy for the future. Especially with some of our fans.

If anything a lot of people were noticing how he and Hampshire were playing well together. But as soon as Brough and Miller were “fit” again…

Personally think Ben will be given a new contract at Leigh. He has stepped up a gear this season, displaced Joe Mellor to everyone's surprise (see squad numbers) and furthermore is our only proven goal kicker since the departure of Kris Inu. He is still in Lam Jnr's shadow (though it would take someone like Croft not to be) but when Leigh have three half backs on the park at the same time, their understanding and the fluidity of their roles is a joy to behold - for Leythers.

He was 25 and had already played well over a hundred pro games so I’m not sure he needed a softly softly approach to getting into the team. He was just never given a chance to establish himself which lead fans to question why we’d signed him at all when at the time we were badly needing strength in other areas of the team.

We've Gale, Lino and Morgan Smith for the halves next year. Can't see us stretching to four.

Smith wouldn't have a contract if relegated. That's why they are renegotiating dual league contracts for some.

No, but I reckon he'd be one of the more realistic retentions and he's proven at Championship level.

Indeed

That's how I remember it....

According to Applegarth in League Express we've Jowitt, Dagger, Gale, Lino, Smith, Hood and Bowes all signed up for next year.

Saw that. Didn't realise Hood and Smith were signed up.

Hood got a new two year contract right at the start of the season (Dont know why)
Smith was signed on for two years.
Therefore Applegarth is technically correct in one way, however when relegated They may not be required