CALLAND IN! : Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:05 pm  

Sick to death of the continuous Calland bashing, which will no doubt intensify tonight.

I was concerned at half time, the commitment APPEARED to be void and we looked well beat. But no one can doubt the players wanted it second half.

Yep ... the tactics were wrong, I think we thought we could take it easy in 1st half as we had the slope 2nd half and Batley had a 4 day turn around. But Batley surprised us all, and deserved the spoils.

Calland is an excellent coach ...he's proved it ... and this tough patch will make him stronger. As I've said somewhere else ... remember Fergie 1st 4 years at Man U ... he was ready for the chop.

Let's stick by the team ... Leigh next up. UP THE FAX!

: Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:07 pm  

HELL yeah.

Callands made this team give him the chance to see the job through and get us back to the form he oversaw earlier in the year.

: Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:07 pm  

i will join this cause, calland needs a chance to learn from his mistakes, this is his first real blip as a coach and it make take him a bit to work it out being new but am confident he will.

Up the fax

: Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:15 pm  

what has he proved

: Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:16 pm  

perhaps we should employ a 1st half coach and give matt the 2nd half coach job

: Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:18 pm  

joe kilroy fan club wrote:

what has he proved

as far as i can see, he has got us to near the top of the league- we may have lost 5 on the spin but everyone has bad runs, widnes had one earlier in the season and thats the reason why they wont win the league out right- they may do better in the play offs. the start to the season is what has left everyone frustrated now but this amount of defeats in a row was not uncommon in previous years.

: Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:24 pm  

faxtastic wrote:

as far as i can see, he has got us to near the top of the league- we may have lost 5 on the spin but everyone has bad runs, widnes had one earlier in the season and thats the reason why they wont win the league out right- they may do better in the play offs. the start to the season is what has left everyone frustrated now but this amount of defeats in a row was not uncommon in previous years.

Well put, faxtastic. It's all about being patient ... again it was obvious tonight we got beat in the half backs ... Handforth controlled EVERYTHING for Batley and Black couldn't, partly cos he's injured. Calland's not daft ... he'll realise what needs to be done and will build year on year until we get it right. Maybe the worst thing that could have happened this season was to have such a great start ... everyone now thinks we should be world beaters!

: Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:25 pm  

if he can take the credit for getting us to the top, he's got to take the responsibility for bringing us back down!

: Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:27 pm  

our forwards being overrun is nothing to do with form, its a physical problem

we might as well start hunting for some new ones for next season now

: Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:29 pm  

Er! its now official, were going backwards and have worse record than last year, this comeback will be bigger than lazarus, somehow i dont see it happening, were just not big or tough enough. Sorry guys.