Just all very amateurish, not surprised though.

Are you saying that Smailes would have used a week-old interview for yesterday's news? Hardly, any RL journalist knows a couple of days is a long time in the sport for things to change, never mind a week! That would be most unprofessional of [iSmailes[/i and I think that's an unfair slur.

Anyway, it's a moot point as Shaul wasn't injured. He was playing and training with the same condition as he has had for months which hasn't stopped Radford picking him until now. Shaul insists he was dropped and was called in a couple of days before to be told that.

Why Radford's fluffing the issue by insisting it's injury-related is the question. Why hasn't he just confirmed Shaul was dropped?

Have you listened to the interview?

You really do amaze me. An unfair slur. What next?

And did Smailes write it? He said "paper only reporting what the coach said", and there is no mention of his name in the HDM article.

Yes - he said Shaul was dropped due to injury concerns. In addition there were performance issues against Huddersfield. Why bring the injury thing into it at all?

Because there are injury concerns which Shaul confirmed, even saying his training was restricted, but rehab was improving it.

Stop being dopey - Radford was telling Shaul to come and give his version and considering it all related to tweets last night i think it being done last week might be a tad impossible unless FC have a time machine - if they do can they go back and get Brian Smith please

But the interview was from the week before. So was he "mistaken" about when the interview related to or when he said shaul wasn't playing Friday due to injury concerns?

Sorry, you're the one being dopey. I was referring to the HDM article.

You and a few others on here really do amaze me. How can you can defend the indefensible all the time, and see no wrong, is just laughable. I'm all for people's own opinions, but it's bull , complete bull!

the 'injury' shaul is supposed to have is he cant train on hard surfaces! this time of the year, most surfaces will still be soft under foot!


the only real pace in our team, (lineham apart) and he gets dropped!

Funny, really, because I find your persistent ridiculing of anything and everything to do with the club quite pathetic.

Naughton is faster than both of them. Oh, wait

Smailes is the deputy editor.

Well I have listened to it three times now and basically I guess Radford says Shaul was injured and was dropped for that, but adds that it was also because he was rubbish against Huddersfield while Shaul agrees he has injury issues that he has played with all season but believes he was dropped because of a poor performance against Huddersfiled. I want to believ in my Club and want to get behind them but what a blooming mess and one that could have been sorted by the coach just saying it was a misunderstanding and its sorted. It would have raised a few questions but it would have died away.

Instead we have players being described as nieve, a player being dragged out in front of the media like a naughty school boy, attempts at being funny which where cringe worthy, total confusion and Radio Humberside milking out plight for a its worth. Following his efforts post match last Friday how anyone can defend that interview by our Coach completely beats me it was abysmal!! Just my interpretation I guess but I found it a bit embarrassing!

yes, forgot about naughton, another who has been shat on imo

Pretty much sums up how I feel about it and things in general. Really hard to see any light at the end of the tunnel for me

Pretty much how I see it. Regardless of the appropriateness of attempts at humour and dragging Shaul out, the strangest thing to me is that for a piece supposedly to put the issue to rest, they still said opposing things and actually further muddied the waters rather than explaining anything. Radford said he was left out against Salford for injury concerns, 'Jamie is young and naïve' (bless 'is little cotton socks) 'we can get Jamie out here to clarify things if you like' and 'we can soon solve this'. Duly, out comes Shaul and says he wasn't injured last week and was disappointed not to play, so pretty much exactly what Radford said wasn't the case. So either Shaul's still confused about whether or not he was injured last week and why he didn't play, or he wasn't prepped very well tonight. Those interviews actually make what appeared pretty much a non-issue farcical.

I don't see how anyone can find that interview anything other than embarrassing.
Amateurish in the extreme, and indicative of the direction the club is heading in.

He'd get on well on here.

I'm just wondering what method you've used to determine beyond all possible doubt that Shaul is the one telling the truth. Or indeed that the whole thing isn't some disagreement over the definition of 'injured'.

You like to state things as fact that aren't.

Not exactly the club's finest hour. This was basically a non-issue and then the Radford & Shaul show on RH turns it into a farce. If this is indicative of how things operate behind the scenes then no wonder we're in trouble.

Deary me.

I remember listening to my father speak almost in exactly the same tones, the insistant proffering to give an example to back up what's being said, to 'prove' that something was so, the 'jokey' putdowns, all repeated ad-nausuem and so on and so forth...
Then and as it is now, utter gash.

This interview sums Radford and indeed the club up for me, bewilderingly, incompetently, clueless, seriously is there no-one, no-one at all able to deal with things like this, to actually act in an adult way and tell players what not to do from the outset.
This is what happens when you don't have a CEO, when your so called directors are little more than yes men without any idea whatsoever, where's our 'communication 'director' or indeed Pearson, not this buffoon who hasn't got the foggiest idea.

It needs someone to be able to come out and tell the truth no matter how hard that might be, if for tactical reasons you tell a white fib to fool the opposition that's fine, but micturate poor communication and the inability to ensure players aren't involved in idle gossip relating directly to the club on ter or elsewhere is unacceptable.



Have the decency & the balls to say to a player upfront (for example), you weren't at the races and frankly I think your knock is effecting you, and that club policy -which forms part of your contract of employment, re social media (a policy we should have in place!) means we don't have idle chit-chat regarding what you might or might not think about such situations. WE DO NOT NEED ANY DESTABILISING SITUATIONS TO ARISE..PERIOD.

Instead we have untruths, manipulating the facts of whom read what when, yadda yadda & an interview of epicly ridiculous proportions were our coach is saying he is physically striking the players to get them to conform, albeit jokingly to the interviewer but there's enough in there that even if he didn't he is obviously extremely narked about this (partly because he's being found out) so obviously can't help but dig himself and the club a deeper hole in a pathetic attempt to cover his , when clearly he just hasn't the knowhow to get his house in order and relate that in a believable way to the media, really you couldn't make this fairy-tale up!!

Yet another failing of our glorious leader and Pearson is micro-managing this? FFS



RADFORD OUT!

Jamie was on the hospitality circus last Friday and when he came in to our box we were told that we couldn't ask him about injuries !!
His body language was shocking.

Shaul deserved dropping.

His attitude and performances are not good enough.

Plenty of competition for his spot so he needs to seriously 'up' his game if he wants to get back in.