All true, we have zero leadership on the pitch. Houghton is a poor captain as he was the last time he did it. We haven't had a leader since Ellis.

Agree. I hate to say it because he was a favourite of mine as well but now he is shot. Compare him to Leutele and Leutele is 2 years younger.

That's exactly Bonaire's point

Again it’s just another example of the mess we are in as a club, he wasn’t a great Captain in his first stint, had the farce of the 3 captains then Carlos, which ended with him giving up role or Smith removing him from it to end up back to square one with Houghton (who fell out of love playing and has been given one year too many)

Crazy that in 2016 as well as Ellis we had both international captains from that year's Samoa v Tonga international in Pritchard and Manu. Minichiello captained Italy the following year too!

Gaz highly respected on and off the field yet our Mastermind coach (shortly ex coach) decides to get rid and would rather keep Gene

Hopefully ex coach or do you know something we don't?

Does anybody actually know what Gene brings to the Coaching set up other than a yes man or bodyguard for Smith?

Weve been saying the same thing for 3 years
Weve been saying houghton needs replacing
The errors are bad
The line speeds rubbish
The discipline is bad
No organisers

Guess what nothings changed its madness

Each coach comes in and just tootles along, repeating the same cycle

With such a backlash i just cant see how Pearson can save face other than sacking himself or getting rid of Smith

In response to Hull's Instagram post with the final score Frank Pritchard tagged Sika Manu and said "Round the gang up..."

If only.

And they would probably run rings round some of the feckless wonders we currently have.

oh for a halfback pairing of kelly and sneyd,or a back 3 of mini,manu and ellis.sad how far we have gone backwards since 2017

I don't think we quite appreciated at the time just how good that team was. 1-17 we had proper quality and threat throughout. I genuinely went into every single game thinking "if we play to our ability they cant beat us." The two cups were great, but we really should have had another trophy or two to show for those 2016/17 teams.

2018 was the start of the decline when we only brought in Fariamo, Paea and westerman midway through the season, then 2019 when we only signed Matty Dawson Jones, Danny Langtree and Levy Nzonghou, those two years we rested on our laurels not trying to further improve the team

Is that really the only signings we made in 2019?!

I actually had to Google Danny Langtree. Don't remember him at all.

For reasons unknown we decided to sign players just for the reserve team

no team has done that before or since...

I can't remember what year Motu Tony left but recruitment hasn't been the same since.

We signed Naulago for 2019. Savelio came but only played a handful of games and Satae played a few late in the year.

We released a few during the season though - Litten, Hadley, Thompson, Langtree and Miloudi.

Maybe I missed a few but I just remember that years recruitment being really poor when they were hyping up Dawson Jones and Langtree as our main signings that season.

No you were right - Naulago was a trialist who turned out a diamond and Savelio and Satae late signings.

Dawson-Jones scored on his debut at CP, got injured and never played for us again. Nzoungou made one appearance off the bench and Langtree didn't play at all. The recruitment was just scattergun.

Danny Langtree has some superb performances in the reserves, he never got a shot in the first team, he was a second row with great pace, and an eye for the try line, but the whisper at the time was because of the salary cap and appearance constraints he didn’t make it, I’m surprised this passed you bye.

Once I actually saw a picture of him it did start ringing bells, I just couldn't remember anything about him.

Because Gaz wasn't a yes man.
Majority of the players don't like Gene.

Also, Tex been told he won't be here next season

To be honest Tex makes sense.

Probably the most important recruitment in the clubs SL history (I'm sure I've said that last 3/4 years)

there would be a lot id let go before hoy.carlos,brown,cator,fash,okunbor,lane.its vital we get a top 7,at least 1 centre and at least2 secondrowers.if brown and houghton go,we also need another hooker and to play him at 9if i was smith and pearson id be trying to announce a top signing as soon as possible to give fans something positive.its all doom and gloom as moment..