: Mon Nov 17, 2008 12:16 am  

Brian Smith's brother is nothing but a mumbling, whinging, loser clown.

What the hell he was doing in England winning a SL title is beyond me.

: Mon Nov 17, 2008 12:52 pm  

Daniel Anderson named new Parramatta Eels coach. that leaves smith where he is . Anderson was an assistant to coach Brian Smith at Parramatta in 2000 after leading the reserve grade team to the 1999 premiership. "I have a long history with the Parramatta club and I consider it a real privilege to be given the opportunity to coach the team over the next three years,'' Anderson said. "I started my coaching career here back in 1991 and it's long been a goal of mine to return. I'm a Parramatta boy, I grew up here and, apart from the last eight years, I've spent my life here. "Needless to day I'm incredibly enthusiastic about the opportunity that I have been given and I look forward to helping the team and the club rise up the ladder.'' http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/s ... 66,00.html

Daniel Anderson named new Parramatta Eels coach. that leaves smith where he is . Anderson was an assistant to coach Brian Smith at Parramatta in 2000 after leading the reserve grade team to the 1999 premiership. "I have a long history with the Parramatta club and I consider it a real privilege to be given the opportunity to coach the team over the next three years,'' Anderson said. "I started my coaching career here back in 1991 and it's long been a goal of mine to return. I'm a Parramatta boy, I grew up here and, apart from the last eight years, I've spent my life here. "Needless to day I'm incredibly enthusiastic about the opportunity that I have been given and I look forward to helping the team and the club rise up the ladder.'' http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/s ... 66,00.html

: Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:37 pm  

Not aggresive enough
no attacking game plan

defense patterns were schoolboy level

Not sure if it is Smith, the players or the dire coaching of juniors in England but somebody needs to shoulder some blame. By far and away the worse tournament display by any Eng/GB team in living memory.

: Mon Nov 17, 2008 3:30 pm  

JB Down Under wrote:

defense patterns were schoolboy level

That was the most depressing bit, for me.

Forget Australia, they're better than everyone by a mile for a number of reasons, but the NZ team that beat us was crap. When we lost, it just as much of case of how we were worse than them rather then them being better than us.

The majority of the NZ team would turn out to be the sort of very average SL signings they people decry for needlesly blocking young british talent.

Either Leeds or Saints would have trashed that Kiwi side. They're teams based around English players (who made up the majority of the Englnd team), so we've got some serious issues, especially when the line of defense is so woeful.

: Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:06 pm  

Offside Monkey wrote:

That was the most depressing bit, for me.



Either Leeds or Saints would have trashed that Kiwi side. They're teams based around English players (who made up the majority of the Englnd team), so we've got some serious issues, especially when the line of defense is so woeful.

This is what we all are thinking, Leeds and Saints would have had in attack decoy runners, switch of play, 2nd attack phase, chip kicks over the defensive line. In defense Leeds and Saints would be more aggressive, quicker onto the offensive line, covering out wide.
We didn,t see any of this in the England side, in most instances the players didn,t know what to do next in both offence and defence. There was also no one in authority on the field to organise any plays thats if they had any.

: Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:34 pm  

Judder Man wrote:

This is what we all are thinking, Leeds and Saints would have had in attack decoy runners, switch of play, 2nd attack phase, chip kicks over the defensive line. In defense Leeds and Saints would be more aggressive, quicker onto the offensive line, covering out wide.
We didn,t see any of this in the England side, in most instances the players didn,t know what to do next in both offence and defence. There was also no one in authority on the field to organise any plays thats if they had any.

It would have helped if the likely starting 17 had a pre WC game to do some work on this.

But no. The moronic Smith had a meaningless game versus Wales with many of the England players that night not even going out to Oz!!

Why not fly there earlier, aclimatise more and play a game out there with our start 17. Nz managed it versus Tonga....we couldn't.

Just how many play maker combinations were we runnin through in actual cup games? How many permutations of second row/centre/wing.

A complete organisational farce and Smith was responsible.

: Mon Nov 17, 2008 11:11 pm  

Just to put things a little bit in perspective, all the faults that have been evident at the WC were there in the last tri Nations here. We had one good performance when Sean Long looked like a halfback for a minute, but were dire in the other games. Meanwhile Australia have a more dynamic backline than they did then.

Under Noble GB's backline was just as bad as now. The forwards may have played better, but to be honest the gap wasn't much bigger.

: Mon Nov 17, 2008 11:12 pm  

Marsdengiant wrote:

A complete organisational farce and Smith was responsible.

Still bitter?

: Tue Nov 18, 2008 12:40 am  

TARANIS wrote:

Still bitter?

Enjoying myself. Thanks.

: Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:23 am  

Where is he going to go?
I can not imagine any NRL Clubs being interested, The Parra connection was a Red Herring.
Salford, Celtic?