Re: Sorry Jimmy but...... : Thu Oct 08, 2015 5:56 pm  

Just watched Jimmy's apology for ranting on Bulls TV; my word he's as thick as a builder's wrist.

If that's how he speaks to the players it's no wonder there's a lack of motivation.

Re: Sorry Jimmy but...... : Thu Oct 08, 2015 6:10 pm  

Did anyone watch the video of Jimmy and expect the camera to pan back at the end to show Mark Green with a gun pointed to his head?

Re: Sorry Jimmy but...... : Thu Oct 08, 2015 7:09 pm  

Bulliac wrote:

Remembering that Ferres said the squad for next year would be smaller than last season, it seems to me, given the players already signed until the end of '16, we don't have much to come.

Anyone suggesting we pay Jimmy off would be suggesting we maybe can't afford another half.

Ferres was saying after the Widnes game we had 6 signings already lined up.

Re: Sorry Jimmy but...... : Thu Oct 08, 2015 7:25 pm  

redeverready wrote:

Ferres was saying after the Widnes game we had 6 signings already lined up.

'Lined up' is an interesting phrase. You can have people 'lined up' without them ever coming to fruition.

If we have 6 singings that come to fruition then I think we have to assume that a similar number are going. That's fine if we are talking about Uaisele, Uluigia, Davies, Baille etc - as opposed to, say, Gaskell, O'Brien, Ferguson...

Re: Sorry Jimmy but...... : Thu Oct 08, 2015 9:57 pm  

paulwalker71 wrote:

Did anyone watch the video of Jimmy and expect the camera to pan back at the end to show Mark Green with a gun pointed to his head?

and did they have jimmy deliberately looking into the sun to make him squint all the time.
After 2 coughs he actually sounded emotional.
It takes a big man to apologise so publicly. I can count on one hand the number of times a coach has publicly apologised and actually sounded like he meant it.
I don't agree with what he said straight after the game but to be fair if someone had stuck a microphone in my face less than 5 mins after the final hooter and asked me what I thought - most of it would have been beeped out.

[Pumpetypump]

Re: Sorry Jimmy but...... : Fri Oct 09, 2015 9:21 am  

For context, as the hooter went in came my two young daughters from playing in the garden and asked me to get them something or other, to which I essentially told them to sod off and go back outside. The fact that I was a bit of an a.rse with the two people who mean more to me than anything else on earth makes me damn sure that if I'd had a microphone in my face immediately post match I'd have been an absolute d1ck.

So as a human with the capacity to be an utter muppet I'm inclined to accept Jimmy's apology, and I'd hope the others he apologised to will as well.

[Bulliac]

Re: Sorry Jimmy but...... : Fri Oct 09, 2015 9:31 am  

redeverready wrote:

Ferres was saying after the Widnes game we had 6 signings already lined up.

Well yes he did, but he also said we'd have fewer in the squad and I'm guessing he didn't mean just a couple?

We've got [on my reckoning] 27 currently signed for next year. If we take the 27 and add 6 currently 'lined up', that's pretty much the same as the season just past. Our average number registered, at any one time, what with players leaving or going out on loan and arriving late in the season would have been around 33.

Last seasons' full list, with not all here at the same time, has 36 names on it though 4 of those never actually pulled a shirt on.

Re: Sorry Jimmy but...... : Fri Oct 09, 2015 10:18 am  

A squad of around 30 is more than plenty, if (a) all of them are at least good enough to offer something and (b) we actually fekkin play them

[Bulliac]

Re: Sorry Jimmy but...... : Fri Oct 09, 2015 10:54 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

A squad of around 30 is more than plenty, if (a) all of them are at least good enough to offer something and (b) we actually fekkin play them

Would agree with that.

We do seem to be getting mixed messages from the club though. Smaller but stronger, another six "lined up"...which is it?

Re: Sorry Jimmy but...... : Fri Oct 09, 2015 1:01 pm  

Also, we are all one year older, uglier and wiser - which includes our academy lads. Are any of them anywhere near a chance in the first team squad, does anyone know?