Re: Rick Stone sacked : Wed Mar 28, 2018 12:55 pm  

jools wrote:

:shock: If Chris Thorman manages to get any points at all in the next week he should definitely get to keep the job.
Next to No prep time on the busiest week of the RL calendar, the champions, a trip to Catalan three days later for a bottom table clash, and followed by the LL, all with a massive injury list, and to top it all his Missus has given Birth to a son today.

How do you mean next to no prep time? How longs he been at the club? Maybe take a while if he's got the intention to change the way we play but he's nothing to lose with the next 2 games so let them play open rugby and put himself in with a shot at taking over permanently. We'll see what happens on Friday.

Grandad

Re: Rick Stone sacked : Wed Mar 28, 2018 1:02 pm  

brearley84 wrote:

way too nice as a club, can see it in the players

john kear i believe was shocked when he saw the difference in the clubs cultures when coming from sheffield with his lot

Mal Reilly said something similar in his autobiography. Too nice to win anything.

I’d go further - they lack the courage to try to win. Frightened of failure, which guarantees you’ll fail.

[Bullseye]

Re: Rick Stone sacked : Wed Mar 28, 2018 1:22 pm  

jools wrote:

God no- haven’t we suffered enough as spectators....

Would you rather play nice rugby and continue to lose more than you win? Or play it tough but unpleasant and win more?

Do you have that luxury?

Re: Rick Stone sacked : Wed Mar 28, 2018 2:45 pm  

In the unlikely event of Michael Mcguire esq being appointed our new coach my season ticket would be returned first class post,if i wanted to watch wrestling i would go to wwf ,if i wanted to watch arm wresting i would go to my local,i want to be entertained and so do a lot of other people by attractive winning rugby as provided not long ago by Nathan Browns team ,it is possible to have both

Re: Rick Stone sacked : Wed Mar 28, 2018 3:16 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

Break the bank and bring in Maguire. He might coach wrestlemania but he gets results and would sort out those that aren't giving 100%.

Maguire made it clear to Warrington that he would not return to the UK in any circumstances. No disrespect, but I doubt if he'd change his mind for the Giants.

Re: Rick Stone sacked : Wed Mar 28, 2018 3:55 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

Would you rather play nice rugby and continue to lose more than you win? Or play it tough but unpleasant and win more?

Do you have that luxury?

tough and unpleasant is what we had under anderson.. worked for a while till teams knew how to beat us... things havent changed, time for a different style of rugby ... thing is we have the same players who cant play that different style i dont think... well we know brough cant for one and everything revolves around him... another 1 year deal too

Re: Rick Stone sacked : Wed Mar 28, 2018 6:36 pm  

brearley84 wrote:

tough and unpleasant is what we had under anderson.. worked for a while till teams knew how to beat us... things havent changed, time for a different style of rugby ... thing is we have the same players who cant play that different style i dont think... well we know brough cant for one and everything revolves around him... another 1 year deal too

What we had under Anderson was a team who thought that offloading meant helping out when the brewery wagon turned up.

Re: Rick Stone sacked : Wed Mar 28, 2018 6:41 pm  

Jo Jumbuck wrote:

What we had under Anderson was a team who thought that offloading meant helping out when the brewery wagon turned up.

Think that’s more like what we had under brown tbh

Re: Rick Stone sacked : Wed Mar 28, 2018 8:43 pm  

brearley84 wrote:

well there we go, rick stone the scapegoat gets the chop... feel abit sorry for the guy, hes cleary a top bloke and been let down by the players that he inherited

Agree, the players who were generally deemed good enough pre-season to finish mid-table and, if I remember correctly, you seemed to think that this squad was good enough for 6th position. The team has, quite frankly, been awful so far this season and Rick Stone has been unable to get them to perform to the standard of which we think they are capable - even allowing for the injuries beyond his control. Much as I like him as a person, he had to go.

Re: Rick Stone sacked : Thu Mar 29, 2018 12:47 pm  

no fear wrote:

Agree, the players who were generally deemed good enough pre-season to finish mid-table and, if I remember correctly, you seemed to think that this squad was good enough for 6th position. The team has, quite frankly, been awful so far this season and Rick Stone has been unable to get them to perform to the standard of which we think they are capable - even allowing for the injuries beyond his control. Much as I like him as a person, he had to go.

certainly lost it the last two games with those hidings

with them not renewing his deal then its was always borrowed time, get someone in now who can try shape the team going forward best they can

unless they stick with thorman who himself says he has a great relationship with thewlis explains alot now does that