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| Quote ="Big Dave T"The problem too i guess it that nothing changes on the back of empty threats, especially whilst the tills are still ticking over.'" Even if there was to be protests i still don't think the board would pay much attention.
They are strong willed (which is a good thing) and are adamant that Agar will deliver. There isn't many people who agree with them tbh.
The tills will always tick over.
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| Quote ="EXPRO"now THAT is a man who can find a complaint in stats , you are the master!!!
you just cant admit that were sat in 4th because we have earned it!!
we have not been given points cos someone at the RFL likes us but because we won enough games in our fixture list so far to place us there, wether you like the performances or not we are there because the rosta took to the field and won enough games to get us there and thats all there is to it!!
I ask again stat master ... where were we sat this time last season at this point???? not points etc but what position please'"
I answered you're question, 4th. Poor teams are always found out and if you're happy (and plenty of people are) with playing poor and grinding out results to get 4th in games where we should be blowing teams away then thats up to you. My view is that in the big games when it matters the style of rugby we play simply isnt good enough and we'll get found out. We also seem to have issues beating some of the poorer teams. It's helped us massively this season that most teams have taken points off each other otherwise we probably wouldnt be anywhere near 4th. League position has never impressed me, performances do. Performances inevitably lead to decent league position and success.
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| Quote ="EXPRO"there is an old song sang at most sports events that sum that up for you
" you only sing when your winning"
cant only support when times are good old son sorry but you have to know and experience the hard times to know how good the great times feel!!
if you only wish to see a winning team each week then buy a dvd of the best bits and watch that whilst others go to the match .'"
Have you read my posts over the last 18 months? I'm pretty sure my view hasnt changed based on winning or losing. I want to see performances. You've just made yourself look rather silly. (more than normal anyway)
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| Quote ="Staffs FC"Sorry to hear that we need to announce a big signing quick to get you back.
I fully understand the frustrations - I spend a lot of money myself to watch the same - but from the low points of 2008/9 I think we are emerging albeit a slow and bumpy ride. Half back is an area we haven't sussed, save a couple of cameos, since J Smith and Crooke left, and this has been our biggest woe IMO. Fix that and the next few years will see us improve further. Wigan/Warrington/Leeds and Saints have the best squads in the league when fully fit - a couple of those have struggled when injuries have hit them this year mind. And yes they have better coaches as well although the player quality is no doubt linked to that. They all have quality playmakers which, if you want to play high points scoring rugby, you need. There is no other way. Recruitment needs to be better than ever - we still make mistakes. But I think things will even out more as British players take the overseas slots. We are not badly placed to go forward from here.'"
I still dont buy the halfback injury problem entirely. I've said for the last couple of years that no matter what half back partnership we play they should be able to pass the ball to our centres. Most of the time they look like theyve never even met each other never mind pass to each other, there's a huge gap in what we do with the resources we have and what we should be doing with the resources we have and that falls on Agar and his gameplan/training for me.
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| Quote ="Big Dave T"I answered you're question, 4th. Poor teams are always found out and if you're happy (and plenty of people are) with playing poor and grinding out results to get 4th in games where we should be blowing teams away then thats up to you. My view is that in the big games when it matters the style of rugby we play simply isnt good enough and we'll get found out. We also seem to have issues beating some of the poorer teams. It's helped us massively this season that most teams have taken points off each other otherwise we probably wouldnt be anywhere near 4th. League position has never impressed me, performances do. Performances inevitably lead to decent league position and success.'"
sorry I just want to get this straight, your saying then that last season we were sat in 4th place in the table with 6 games to go before the playoffs , Just humour me
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| Quote ="Big Dave T"Have you read my posts over the last 18 months? I'm pretty sure my view hasnt changed based on winning or losing. I want to see performances. You've just made yourself look rather silly. (more than normal anyway)'"
Dave no need to be personal just to make your argument stronger because it is a weak one mate,
lets stick with facts and stats as you like to do!
I also believe in my humble opinion that over the time i have been on this forum you have said some quality things and made some valid points but you have also said some erm not so clever things too, like using insults to back up a weak point of view
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| Quote ="EXPRO"sorry I just want to get this straight, your saying then that last season we were sat in 4th place in the table with 6 games to go before the playoffs , Just humour me'"
Did you not read my reply again. I fully appreciate where we were sat at this time last year and where we are sat this year, performance wise there has barely been an improvement. (other than the success that is Fitz)
In all seriousness putting everything into perspective we are an really poor team with a dire coach. (you can let 4th in the table hide the reality as much as you want)
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| Quote ="EXPRO"Dave no need to be personal just to make your argument stronger because it is a weak one mate,
lets stick with facts and stats as you like to do!
I also believe in my humble opinion that over the time i have been on this forum you have said some quality things and made some valid points but you have also said some erm not so clever things too, like using insults to back up a weak point of view'"
I guess youre previous condasending post calling me 'son' maybe rubbed me up the wrong way mate
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| Quote ="Big Dave T"I still dont buy the halfback injury problem entirely. I've said for the last couple of years that no matter what half back partnership we play they should be able to pass the ball to our centres. Most of the time they look like theyve never even met each other never mind pass to each other, there's a huge gap in what we do with the resources we have and what we should be doing with the resources we have and that falls on Agar and his gameplan/training for me.'"
We'd have to disagree massively on that then. If you think that Wire/Wigan/Saints and Leeds haven't scored lots of points becuase of the international quality of their playmakers then I'm not sure what else it is. Of course they need a platform as well. The fact is that some players are much much better than others - somthing that at times I think you fail to accept. These are the players that finish up playing for their country. Before Long how many of our halves had done that (at half back) ? Horne maybe but he was less than successful at that level. The best creative (and running) halves play for the top teams. The top teams score the most points. It isn't a coincidence.
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| Quote ="Staffs FC"Sorry to hear that we need to announce a big signing quick to get you back.
I fully understand the frustrations - I spend a lot of money myself to watch the same - but from the low points of 2008/9 I think we are emerging albeit a slow and bumpy ride. Half back is an area we haven't sussed, save a couple of cameos, since J Smith and Crooke left, and this has been our biggest woe IMO. Fix that and the next few years will see us improve further. [uWigan/Warrington/Leeds and Saints have the best squads in the league when fully fit - a couple of those have struggled when injuries have hit them this year [/u[umind.[/u And yes they have better coaches as well although the player quality is no doubt linked to that. They all have quality playmakers which, if you want to play high points scoring rugby, you need. There is no other way. Recruitment needs to be better than ever - we still make mistakes. But I think things will even out more as British players take the overseas slots. We are not badly placed to go forward from here.'"
saints lost pryce and eastmond last week at home to the bottom team and duly got turned over!!!! same with leeds,earlier in the season when they lost sinfield.they struggled without him there!
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| Quote ="Big Dave T"I guess youre previous condasending post calling me 'son' maybe rubbed me up the wrong way mate
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My apologies
However Dave please please humour me by using your knowledge of stats as you are so good with and i am so useless with and tell me please which position in the super league table where we sat with 6 games to go last year at this very same point
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| Quote ="Staffs FC"We'd have to disagree massively on that then. If you think that Wire/Wigan/Saints and Leeds haven't scored lots of points becuase of the international quality of their playmakers then I'm not sure what else it is. Of course they need a platform as well. The fact is that some players are much much better than others - somthing that at times I think you fail to accept. These are the players that finish up playing for their country. Before Long how many of our halves had done that (at half back) ? Horne maybe but he was less than successful at that level. The best creative (and running) halves play for the top teams. The top teams score the most points. It isn't a coincidence.'"
Dont get me wrong, i understand that. My point is simply that with Washy and Berro in the halves for example we should be doing better than what we have done. I said the same last season when Washy and Horne or Washy and Berro played too, i appreciate we aren't going to look as good as we would with Long in the side but i still expect more from what we have. They look like theyve never met.
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| Quote ="EXPRO"My apologies
However Dave please please humour me by using your knowledge of stats as you are so good with and i am so useless with and tell me please which position in the super league table where we sat with 6 games to go last year at this very same point'"
What i will tell you is that in 2009 we won nowt and played poor. In 2010 we will finish with exactly the same record.
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| Quote ="Staffs FC"We'd have to disagree massively on that then. If you think that Wire/Wigan/Saints and Leeds haven't scored lots of points becuase of the international quality of their playmakers then I'm not sure what else it is. Of course they need a platform as well. The fact is that some players are much much better than others - somthing that at times I think you fail to accept. These are the players that finish up playing for their country. Before Long how many of our halves had done that (at half back) ? Horne maybe but he was less than successful at that level. The best creative (and running) halves play for the top teams. The top teams score the most points. It isn't a coincidence.'"
Yet Big Dave would have you believe that we are sat in 4th having had no real halfbacks again this year because were crap !!
so we have had no thought process or direction out there for the third year on the trot and were in 4th because were crap !!!???!!!
with a settled uninjured half back pairing we could have been top two!!!
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| Quote ="Big Dave T"What i will tell you is that in 2009 we won nowt and played poor. In 2010 we will finish with exactly the same record.
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WITH 6 GAMES TO GO LAST SEASON WHAT PLACE WERE WE ???
go on Dave you can tell me whilst no one else is looking quick !!
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| Quote ="Big Dave T"What i will tell you is that in 2009 we won nowt and played poor. In 2010 we will finish with exactly the same record.
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| Quote ="EXPRO"WITH 6 GAMES TO GO LAST SEASON WHAT PLACE WERE WE ???
go on Dave you can tell me whilst no one else is looking quick !!'" Will you give it a fecking rest, he knows were we were, we all do, why do you need him to say it?
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| Quote ="EXPRO"Yet Big Dave would have you believe that we are sat in 4th having had no real halfbacks again this year because were crap !!
so we have had no thought process or direction out there for the third year on the trot and were in 4th because were crap !!!???!!!
with a settled uninjured half back pairing we could have been top two!!!'"
The sign of a top team is playing well through adversity. Do you honestly think we've done that? (forget the 4th in the league argument just for one minute)
Have our halfbacks (even with our main halfbacks injured) given us a little bit of direction and created a link? Have we worked on improving any of that in training? Do we look the same disfunctional side as we did last year?
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| Quote ="east hull FC fan"As will at least 11 other teams.
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But if Saints, Leeds, Wigan or Warrington lose out at least they can say they performed well and enjoyed watching their side this year.
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| Quote ="Big Dave T"Dont get me wrong, i understand that. My point is simply that with Washy and Berro in the halves for example we should be doing better than what we have done. I said the same last season when Washy and Horne or Washy and Berro played too, i appreciate we aren't going to look as good as we would with Long in the side but i still expect more from what we have. They look like theyve never met.'"
In the last game I agree they were poor. I think they're being asked to do a job they can't/don't want to do. Bad luck on them really they should have done better than they did.
But your wider point, and that of some others, is that the brand of rugby we play is not exciting enough. My point is that you can't just go and play exciting rugby if you aint got the skill and organisation - tools if you like - to do it. Otherwise Keighley could anounce that their squad was entering SL and expected to win it because their intention was to play an exciting brand. They would get mullered of course because their players wouldn't be good enough.
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| Quote ="Big Dave T"The sign of a top team is playing well through adversity. Do you honestly think we've done that? (forget the 4th in the league argument just for one minute)
Have our halfbacks (even with our main halfbacks injured) given us a little bit of direction and created a link? Have we worked on improving any of that in training? Do we look the same disfunctional side as we did last year?'" What would you class as adversity?
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| Quote ="Big Dave T"What i will tell you is that in 2009 we won nowt and played poor. In 2010 we will finish with exactly the same record.
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BUT in a far higher league position with a play off game which is a zillion per cent better than the last two outings , in my book, the book of the club and any other coach/ director and 99% of fans would accept that as a result compared to the shambles that was the last two seasons and a building block for next season...erm apart from you
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| Quote ="Big Dave T"But if Saints, Leeds, Wigan or Warrington lose out at least they can say they performed well and enjoyed watching their side this year.
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| Quote ="east hull FC fan"Will you give it a fecking rest, he knows were we were, we all do, why do you need him to say it?'"
to prove he is wrong simple as that, its too easy to slate the situation and use stats to prove a point however stats also can be used to defend the situation
WE ARE 4TH ITS BETTER THAN THE LAST TWO YEARS COMBINED!!!
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| Quote ="Big Dave T"But if Saints, Leeds, Wigan or Warrington lose out at least they can say they performed well and enjoyed watching their side this year.
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wtf are you honestly saying that a team that plays champagne rugby but looses and wins nothing is better to watch ???
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