Re: Questions to the Chairman : Mon Oct 12, 2015 7:16 am  

I agree. It's strange how we went from having a squad that was considered stronger than 2014's before the season started to being only a shadow of what Wakefield had available in the MPG. This season should have felt like the days of dominating Super League but in a Championship setting - that utterly ruthless attitude with momentum building towards the "business end". You'd have thought Jimmy would remember this from playing in that team. His team changes and odd selection policy was the major part of the problem. Rewarding some players who had the odd dodgy game by dropping them (great for confidence) but carrying on with cart horses like Lauaki.

[Bulliac]

Re: Questions to the Chairman : Mon Oct 12, 2015 9:09 am  

M@islebugs wrote:

Promotion was entirely possible.

Well, yeah it was. It was entirely possible that my wife might have won the lottery last week too, but neither of those events occurred. Absolutely everything is 'possible', but the odds remain heavily stacked against either happening next year too.

The very fact that Wakey imploded and it still couldn't be done shows just what an advantage playing regularly in SL really is.

Re: Questions to the Chairman : Mon Oct 12, 2015 9:15 am  

Bulliac wrote:

Well, yeah it was. It was entirely possible that my wife might have won the lottery last week too, but neither of those events occurred. Absolutely everything is 'possible', but the odds remain heavily stacked against either happening next year too.

The very fact that Wakey imploded and it still couldn't be done shows just what an advantage playing regularly in SL really is.

No it doesn't. It shows how poor we were.

Re: Questions to the Chairman : Mon Oct 12, 2015 9:35 am  

Bulliac wrote:

Well, yeah it was. It was entirely possible that my wife might have won the lottery last week too, but neither of those events occurred. Absolutely everything is 'possible', but the odds remain heavily stacked against either happening next year too.

The very fact that Wakey imploded and it still couldn't be done shows just what an advantage playing regularly in SL really is.

Disagree. We didn't get promoted because our bench didn't provide any impact. We have a better bench, we win that game, simple as. A purely rugby matter. Saying Wakey had a massive advantage is looking for excuses. We should have won that game but didn't because of our weak bench and asking 13 players to play nearly the full game.

Next year however, Wakey will have a massive advantage due to funding. They won't be as bad as they were this year which is why i think we've now missed the boat.

Re: Questions to the Chairman : Mon Oct 12, 2015 9:48 am  

Bulliac wrote:

Well, yeah it was. It was entirely possible that my wife might have won the lottery last week too, but neither of those events occurred. Absolutely everything is 'possible', but the odds remain heavily stacked against either happening next year too.

The very fact that Wakey imploded and it still couldn't be done shows just what an advantage playing regularly in SL really is.

Correct me if I am wrong but did we not have a kick, with about 2 minutes left to tie up the game v Wakefield?

The way some people go on about it you would think that we got mullered in the MPG. As it was, despite us having everything against us in the form of salary cap limitations, playing away from home and not having the experience of playing SL intensity RL each week, we ran Wakefield very close indeed.

[Bulliac]

Re: Questions to the Chairman : Mon Oct 12, 2015 1:03 pm  

mystic eddie wrote:

Correct me if I am wrong but did we not have a kick, with about 2 minutes left to tie up the game v Wakefield?

The way some people go on about it you would think that we got mullered in the MPG. As it was, despite us having everything against us in the form of salary cap limitations, playing away from home and not having the experience of playing SL intensity RL each week, we ran Wakefield very close indeed.

That was the point though Eddie - the best championship side from the eights and all we could do was run a very poor Wakefield side pretty close. The remnants of our SL team, after the insolvency last year, the one which got relegated, would have murdered them, but then that team had been playing SL all year.

Just think, that team beat Wigan, Warrington, Catalan and Leeds as well as doing the double over Wakefield, but do you think out current squad, after a year in the championship, could do that?

Re: Questions to the Chairman : Mon Oct 12, 2015 2:07 pm  

mystic eddie wrote:

Correct me if I am wrong but did we not have a kick, with about 2 minutes left to tie up the game v Wakefield?

The way some people go on about it you would think that we got mullered in the MPG. As it was, despite us having everything against us in the form of salary cap limitations, playing away from home and not having the experience of playing SL intensity RL each week, we ran Wakefield very close indeed.

Spot on. In fact, if on the day Danny Addy had kicked the two missed goal attempts, then we would now be back in SL. That is, literally, how close we came.

My personal view is also that a better coach with better team selection and tactics would have been enough to swing the result our way. And I am convinced we would have won it had we not taken the crazy last kick at goal, too. But at least we would have tried to win, as opposed to simply trying to tie the scores, which wins you nothing. Bad call.

Also that the reason why we had the chance to come so close - the disarray in which Wakefield found themselves - was a one-off, and no future MPG contender is likely to come up against anywhere as near vulnerable an opponent ever again. Unless they do, then no team will ever be promoted via the MPG, as the gap is simply far too wide. Something wil have to change, to narrow it.