Not at all. Everything I said was true. We got to the semifinals despite the three poor signings. The incident with BT came in his second year the semi final was in the first. I was responding to the statement that TS made good signings and offloaded players who did not fit into the culture. The three were not good signings and BT obviously did not fit into the culture of the club. As usual you choose to ignore the context of the discussion so you can make your silly snide remark

He definitely wasn’t a failure. I’d be entirely comfortable calling his time at Rovers an equivocal success.

He misjudged his leaving announcement, imo, but I’ve got no animosity to him at all - I don’t think the decision itself was wrong, in any sense. There’s a few things where, if he talks about what he wants to do at Hull in some specific different ways to how he talked about Rovers, it’ll pee me off a bit - even acknowledging these are different clubs in somewhat different situations.

I expect he’ll give Hull a boost, and he carries enough weight to sort out some of the perceived attitude problems that have been claimed to afflict your club for a while. There are some potential downsides, but there are always are with any appointment. He looks like a good option and he’s probably the best immediately available option.

Do you think Tony Smith is a top class SL coach who has improved every team he has been involved with including Rovers?

If Smith comes in and its odds on he will he will want to work with someone he knows and trusts as his assistant.
My only concern now is we are playing catchup with regards to recruitment with our second row particularly weak.
Getting rid of Taylor and Griffin should be a priority for Smith once he is confirmed, and if we can offload Evans it would give us another overseas slot as we surely can do better than Evans .

I'm willing to give Evans one more chance, he has looked good in patches but had a very stop start season with bans and injuries.

Easier said than done when under contract and no takers. Pearson surely cannot pay them all off.

We may have to keep them and hope the new coach can get a tune out of them.

As a follow up it was good that both Korbin and Albert upped their performances after Mags was put in charge. Korbin unfortunately could not play in the derby due to suspension but Albert had his best game at Rovers in his last match. He terrorised your team and played really big minutes. There is obviously a good player in there TS for some reason was unable to bring the best out of him.

Yes I do. It was only the manner of his resignation that soured the experience.

yes i realise that but you have to look to wheel and deal.Taylor will know what thats all about and Griffin isnt worth a first team place so put him on gardening duty until he agrees to move on.

Thank you. That's all I'm interested in.

you sound like a Lawyer

He's under contract probably on a decent wedge so he why would he move on? Swap deal perhaps?

I rest my case m'lud.

Does everyone get a clean slate under the new coach?

(Not suggesting this should happen btw)

Thos is the problem. The players we'd want moving on are probably our top earners.

They wouldn't get a better deal elsewhere, so might just sit it out until the contract runs down.

Yes you should be interested. TS demonstrated a personality flaw, not for the first time. I wonder if it will be reappear again.

I know what you mean. If we are unable to move on the players who have underperformed we may not have a choice.

It sometimes happens in sport when a new boss comes in the not only the team but individuals suddenly improve.

Maybe find out why he and Lakin could barely tolerate being in the same room as each other then.

TS could not accept not getting his own way.

Do you know exactly why he announced he was leaving or just following the party line?

A personality flaw. Are you a qualified psychologist?

His way could have been the right way. After all you were in a very good place at the time.

It was outside his terms of employment. There are many reasons a particular course of action may not be taken. Finance, lack of other resources, company policy etc. all employees have to accept the limits of their position. He also fell out with Mags which is strange as he was instrumental in TS joining the club. Do you see a pattern developing here?

Not for me, the way certain individuals have performed and conducted themselves in recent seasons is unforgivable, one in particular should count himself lucky he got given a ridiculous 5 year deal.

Warrington are doing a deal on props at the minute. Take 1 and get 4 free.

Why you so bothered ? If he is bad news it must delight you we are talking to him surely !