: Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:11 am  

Richie wrote:

An ability that protected Graham Murray very well late in his tenure.

a point a few of us picked up on over a beer at the celtic game this year!

: Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:14 am  

I've thought about this over the last 24 hours and I've come up with the reason Bluey is getting more support than Smith over a similar run.

It's all down to the shape of his head. Bluey's head is almost rugby ball shaped, thus leading to people believing that he has a "rugby brain". Smith has a head shaped like a tennis ball, so he's considered to have a "tennis brain".

Obviously a "rugby brain" is significantly more use to a rugby coach than a "tennis brain", and so people trust Bluey more than Smith.

It's easy when you think about it..............

: Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:17 am  

batleyrhino wrote:

I've thought about this over the last 24 hours and I've come up with the reason Bluey is getting more support than Smith over a similar run.

It's all down to the shape of his head. Bluey's head is almost rugby ball shaped, thus leading to people believing that he has a "rugby brain". Smith has a head shaped like a tennis ball, so he's considered to have a "tennis brain".

Obviously a "rugby brain" is significantly more use to a rugby coach than a "tennis brain", and so people trust Bluey more than Smith.

It's easy when you think about it..............

: Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:19 am  

I think that it 'helps' Bluey in some way when the fans are now stating to accept that we are going to lose more games than we used to. We're talking of going into the Catalans game (a team that finished bottom three years ago) next week as underdogs and justifiably so.

At the end of last season Tony Smith said that the team that wins the 2008 championship could well lose ten games in the season - I think most of us are probably starting to realise that now.

: Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:19 am  

batleyrhino wrote:

I've thought about this over the last 24 hours and I've come up with the reason Bluey is getting more support than Smith over a similar run.

It's all down to the shape of his head. Bluey's head is almost rugby ball shaped, thus leading to people believing that he has a "rugby brain". Smith has a head shaped like a tennis ball, so he's considered to have a "tennis brain".

Obviously a "rugby brain" is significantly more use to a rugby coach than a "tennis brain", and so people trust Bluey more than Smith.

It's easy when you think about it..............

This would explain stevos lack of rugby knowledge

: Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:21 am  

Barry Mac ate my hamster wrote:

This would explain stevos lack of rugby knowledge

Indeed. I have often thought that the shape of Stevo's head is slightly reminiscent of an booty, so the theory stands so far.

: Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:22 am  

Surely the leeway is because we are now used to this position. We experienced it last year, we knee jerked, and Smith delivered in the end. Perhaps out of this experience we just expect the same again.

Also though which cant be swept under the carpet. The very team that Smith won the GF with has only been available to Bluey, on one occassion this year. The rest of the time players have been missing left, right, and Centre, through injuries. This is not something that Smith had to endure throughout his time here.

Re: Understanding of thread : Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:36 pm  

Barry Mac ate my hamster wrote:

Your initial point was why such leeway for bluey? - My answer was that we can still win every competition this year and untill that changes why should he get stick.

he shouldn't. Why should Smith have?

Re: Understanding of thread : Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:54 pm  

G1 wrote:

he shouldn't. Why should Smith have?

Cos he didn't have a "rugby brain", I've told you............

Re: Understanding of thread : Mon Jul 07, 2008 1:01 pm  

G1 wrote:

he shouldn't. Why should Smith have?

Because Smith was judged on more than just Rugby League and because Smith made mistakes which he refused to publically accept.

His failure in 2005 was down to ineptitue, in fact his tenure in charge of the Rhinos was an up and down affair, culminating in the final up in the GF last season.

As far as Bluey in concerned this proof will be in the big games starting with the Dragons in France followed by the Saints.