... but isn't the idea, when you've got adequate cover, to rest these niggling injuries so he can get back to full time training?
Shaul might be fit to play, but why risk a more serious ankle injury?

What concerns more than this story is the fact that he has been dropped after one poor performance when many were also poor and other players like Yeaman are untouchable.

Ok great the club are doing right and when Shaul leaves us and Rankin goes home then hopefully Motu can come back out of retirement

This....

Naughton - IMO ,did nothing wrong to warrant to be dropped.
Yeaman just automatically took his place...

According to Radford, "Naughton bounces into his training, plenty of enthusiasm, and added regarding his signing "was a steal"...

I hope Naughton signs a new contract...

Every thread turns into (on) Yeaman.

Now Shaul has no teeth

Is Radford for real? The interview made him sound like a little chav on acid "i'll pay for Linehams cab to Wire"

Utter unprofessional fool

Not really, it's more about Radford picking his favorites than the players.

Ah, that's alright then.

What was said ? Missed the interview.

What a pathetic bunch of fans we have,if Shaul had played last week then pulled up and disclosed the fact he had been struggling in training the same fans would be screaming why Radford did not play Rankin ..... Its just pathetic

Make your own mind up

[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02pkpcf#autoListen again - 2 bits from radford and 1 from shaul[/url

Basically Radders said "i've battered Shaul now he's no teeth"

Then when asked about Lineham, he said "i'm fed up of him, i'll pay for him to leave, wire are welcome to him, i'll pay his cab there" and to try and make sure it was a joke he repeated it 3 times.


Just very unprofessional


And while Shaul was being interviewed (where he revealed both his patellas are no good and he cannont train on hard ground) his phone went off with 3 whatsapps

Cheers

...or try listening to it.

Listening now and my opinion is the thug has acted like a total tw@. His whole approach is just a joke, saying hes knocked Shauls teeth out - seriously wtf!!!

Shaul sounds like hes scared 5hitless of him to me. How anyone can defend this uprofessional muppet who's our coach is beyond me.

That to me is just appaling from a head coach. He is really clueless when it Comes to what to say and not.

Are you at Poorhouse Lane?

Not at craven park, working til 8. Thursday's are e for rugby.

radford sounded like wane at wigan! totally unprofessional, ruling with an iron fist!

it was cringe worthy and embarrassing how he kept saying lets get jamie out here now shall we!?

can imagine radford making shaul go out and tell RH that he was injured and he was in the wrong!

as for being the worst player against huddersfield that was just laughable!

shaul is probably our only support player to make clean breaks!

Relevant bits are at around 11.35, 15.00 and 57.30.

I know Radford was trying to make jokes about the situation but it really did come across as completely unprofessional and embarrassing. He alluded to "slapping around" both Shaul and Lineham and said Lineham could happily go to Warrington as "he'd done his head in today".

In addition it's quite clear that Radford was insisting Shaul was injured for Salford and Shaul is insisting his condition is exactly the same as it has been for weeks - there was no additional injury. He was called into the office a couple of days before to the told he was dropped due to the Hudds performance. The insistence by Radford that the HDM story was from last week and Shaul has got confused was laughable - as already pointed out earlier in the thread, the story refers to last week's match against Salford so was obviously written this week.

In conclusion, I think Radford's bluster and ill-advised humour was because he was covering up for himself being caught out in a porky. In my opinion.

Surely no one is surprised at the way radford behaves in the press and on the radio?

i think we need another coach no doubt, but come on give radford some slack havnt some of you a sense of humour i cant believe the comments about this, really you should all take your sense of humour pills and move on,

What would you think if your boss was joking about beating you up on the local radio? joking or not it's very unprofessional. He knows everyone knows he's useless so it's a defence mechanism against the fans

...although the interview with Radford could have been done last week.

totally blown out out of proportion, as i said radford isnt up to it imo but for goodness sake