: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:50 pm
TBH I think everyones going a bit OTT with the sack Noble thing and just how bad things are at the club.
The Wakefield game was absoloutly dire - no excuses for that performance at all.
The Hull game I didnt go to but from what I hear it werent a bad performance and we tired badly due to injuries which lost us the game.
The Castleford game I thought was below average but I didnt think we were that bad. Tim Smith costed us the game 4 out of the 5 tries with absoloutly shocking defence. As a professional rugby player hes got to put his hand up and sort his defence out as well as that the coach has to make sure he is hidden in the defensive line as well as the players around him. There is alot of teams with poor defenders worst than Tim Smith so this can be resolved so I am not worried about this.
The other 16 players I thought were not woeful. Theres a good few of them ie Fielden and Coley I would expect a bit ok ALOT more from but otherwise I thought we played some really good rugby and moved the ball a bit which gave us some good options. Obviously theres alot more to be done but I was quite pleased with the style in which we played and that there was room for improvement.
Also had we had Paaat on the pitch he would have probably won us the game with boot and there wouldnt have been as much moaning going on from the fans.
Ok weve lost at home against 2 of the 4 worst teams in the league but it is a competitive league and it CAN happen to the best of teams. Cas and Wakey will turn other decent sides over this season - Fact.
As much as Noble annoys me with his "the seasons won in October" rubbish he does have a bit of a point and he has got form for getting his teams ready for the business end. I dont agree with it but I dont think we have a squad good enough to compete at the top of its game from Feb to Oct.
