Your last six posts are:

Slating the quality of the shirts

Criticising our new training facilities

Doom and gloom after the Wakefield, Derby and Salford games (time two)



Interestingly nothing after the initial friendlies, the Huddersfield game, the Warrington game. Nothing about our academy's reasonable start. Credibility requires balance IMO.

www.thereddevils.net/news/post/v ... gic-assist Ripping us apart

www.thereddevils.net/news/post/v ... gic-assist Ripping us apart

Can't watch it back yet. Rangi's done us over that many times I find it amazing we just watched him take control.

p155 poor defending

Tbh im livid. To buy new half backs, be told this team will be different etc then to be served up the same old rubbish has seriously annoyed me to the point that if the team cant be d then i cant either so will give the Leeds game a miss now and save £100 in the process



For me Radford got it all wrong last night with the pack, the bench was way too light, they had Morley on the bench, we had Green - says it all. Feka needs to play next week as does Bowden and he aint even that good. Id find a way of somehow bringing another bad ass forward in as this is where we are seriosuly lacking. Even Lauaki is a better player than Green and he plays in the division below

Im sorry my opinion is different to yours,it seems I must be wrong. The huddersfield game was a good result,imo not a great performance against a team who played awful,warry was a tough hard battle which imo was a better performance than huddersfield and could have gone either way,perhaps we were a tad unlucky. Last night was awful as I posted earlier,and what I omitted in my previous post was lineham is unrecognisable from the player of 2 years ago,I think the injury has took more of a toll on him than we know.Sorry if thats a bit more doom and gloom as you put it,and iam sure you'll disagree,but thats what these forums are about isnt it. COYH.

Warrington were always the better side in that game and di enough to win without breaking a sweat, if we'd of won it would of been unfair imo

You've missed the point. You only take the trouble to post when it's negative. That's up to you, but very telling, IMO.

I'd love to know what this magical 'attitude' is that stops other teams being better than us.



We got caught cold at the start and conceded 3 tries down our left side, it was absolute pi$$ poor defence. Attitude is just a buzz word that masks deficiencies in player's individual games.

It isn't magical, it's about knowing what make people tick, what to do when and how to deal with X scenario at any given point. you've obviously no experience in the field but what the top sportspeople do, what professional outfits do is ensure that the mental attitude and how people react is part of their fundamental setup.

I explained this in hard factual detail after the 'show a DVD to the lads and say nowt approach' that went on in Portugal and I got barracked. it's exactly that type of unprofessional way of doing things that I was worried about and last night is a classic example of players just not able to get into the mindset/do their individual tasks straight from the kick off and indeed throughout the game..

It isn't rocket science to figure out but instilling it is something that professionals should be doing.

It's really not. Every single player in that team can tackle, defence is 99% attitude. We looked lethargic, our line speed was poor, we allowed quick play the balls constantly. If everyone has these glaring deficiencies then how do we only concede 1 try in 2 games?



Were you at the game last night? The first try Thompson scored, in front of the Hull fans. He was never going to be stopped, you could see the determination on his face, it was as if his life depended on it. That's what we need from everyone for us to compete at the highest level, and we saw very little of it last night.

I agree with this point although I think it's fair to say that the top players approach every game mentally correctly whereas the players with less ability don't. That is a deficiency in the lesser players in its own right and backs up your point.



Defence in the first 20 cost us the match around the ruck and to our left side. Salford were enthusiastic (credit to them) and we were passive almost to the point of being lazy. We've defended like demons for two games then we decide 'not today thanks' and defend like a park team. This was all before the Chase magic that appeared later - that should have been a side show.



In attack we were fine - if you include the Lineham no try that seems should have been given then we scored 30 odd points - the 28 we did score should be more than enough to win a SL game. Pryce in particular looks dangerous more or less whenever the ball is in his hands. In my opinion there are still three or four players in the team last night that aren't good enough particularly in the area of back up prop and back up second row (and I'm clearly not referring to Thompson).



On the Ellis debate - when he doesn't play we have no one anywhere near his level to take his place - that's why he is our biggest loss when absent.