What troubled me most yesterday was not only the abject display, the meagre crowd, the taunting of the opposition supporters, an ashen faced Tony Rea on TV, the total absence of any discussion of the team on SL Full Time - no I can just about cope with all that, it was that diehard supporters are now almost without hope, and starting to question their sanity. What has happened to the great little club we all loved, where we were all in this together, players, coaches, staff and fans, most of whom were on first name terms? I appreciate that is the preserve of a small club, but we are still a small club and it has disappeared! Once that has gone, it has gone forever. I realise the CEO is criticised for being out of touch with supporters and doesn't appear to understand what makes Rugby League special, but I think it goes deeper. I had the chance to speak to David after the game and he was critical of certain players ( I won't name them but they are the ones you would expect) and said a lot of them are here next year as well! Why were the team so flat in a must-win game? Tony blamed complacency ( which is my interpretation of "not dealing with the emotion of the game "icon_wink.gif after the Widnes game. You would have thought when it was only 6-0 at half time and Syko missed a sitter in front of the sticks that the players would believe this is their day after all. But no they were even worse in the second half. Why is this? I work as a Business Performance coach and underperformance from people who have the technical skills and experience to do their job well is invariably a result of attitudes and beliefs about yourself, others around you, your employer, your boss etc. So it strikes me there is an obvious lack of respect and a lack of trust in each other, particularly when under pressure. Perhaps the challenge of Wigan away will bond the team, you never know.

How can any Broncos team in the past 5 years be complacent against any team- thats utter tosh



They are not good enough.



The forwards were taken apart, the right side of defence was deliberately attacked and taken apart time after time(The first signal was the first try), when we had the ball we were pressured and struggled with our last play kicks.

Our 'two minute drill' to borrow an NFLism (well rehed plays that need little communicating in order to create as many chances for the team in position) was a joke.the final ptb of the first half was a panicked toss to Jamie O who then proceeded to run straight at his opposite number.



Clearly clueless and clearly underehed.



Agree with wire. How on earth we can be complacent against any team is a joke.

And given the 'fear of god' expressions on the face of our right side defence whenever they attacked, suggests that rather than being over complacent. They are utterly terrified.

You know what you're on about. Do we have too many spot players in the squad? Is the squad too shallow after a couple of injuries? What can we do?

We were very poor yesterday, we've actually gone backwards since the Widnes game, where we looked like we had little in the bag come the fourth and fifth tackles. Wakefield were well organised and disciplined and well worth the win.



I do think Bentham was very, very, poor, yesterday, and it's been a long time since I've seen a genuinely bad refereeing performance like that at The Stoop, he certainly didn't cost us the game, but I think some poor calls hindered us when it looked like we just might spark some cohesion, and that was important because even if we were never going to win a bit of cohesion might have helped confidence.

I quite agree with your analysis, so will most people. How would you interpret "not dealing with the emotion of the game"? I took it to mean that as Widnes were below strength all broncos had to do was step onto the field to win. What was the emotion they took into Sunday? I saw little resilience.

Isn't the coach at least partly responsible for that?

Anyone who saw the game yesterday will know the issue right now is not the coach. Absolutely disgraceful performance, probably the worst I have ever witnessed supporting the club for 15 years.

I fully agree! there was only one player who looked to have any enthusiasm in Dixon! some manager will soon be touting him in the North! Of course the coach has to take some of the can! he prepares the team which clearly was not done well for yesterday, he has half time to lift them, which didn't happen! We all got a little carried away perhaps art the end of last season with the little success we had.



Bentham was completely out of it as many referees seem to be these days in sport.



I will never miss the stoop come the end of the season, hope we do not try to negotiate another season if it is going to be the last one for the Broncos, we would be better playing anywhere in London!

Why put Witt a known poor defender up against Lauatiti(SP) on the already weak right side of defence



They hammered us there all day as did Widnes

Stick a strong defender there like Bailey or Rodney who can also control the youngsters around them

Agree with much of what's already been said.



I don't think I've ever seen a rugby team look so totally lost, and lacking in ideas, as we did yesterday. With ball in hand, we were hopeless - we didn't make Wakefield work at all. There seems to me to be an inherent laziness with some of the playing staff. Gower is left to do everything in attack, which just won't work. People aren't backing him up or reading his plays, and we become ponderous and predictable.



In defence, it's just shambolic. Wakefield were disciplined and organised but most teams would have been able to comfortably deal with their attacking threat (that said, whoever was kicking for them, left-footed fella - Sykes? - kicked tactically extremely well). Players like Kaufusi amble about, looking slow and out of condition.



Even under Powell, scoring was not a problem, it was defence. Now both seem to be broken. I just can't see how, with the benefit of a full pre-season with a largely unchanged squad, Rea hasn't been able to organise the team better than how it finished at the end of last season. It is baffling and upsetting.



Prepare for the attendances to get worse, by the way.

I apologise for my earlier misjudgements.......Witt is a better model than RL player and Dorn was indeed dropped! Hard to imagine why Teffers would drop one of our (only) 2 strike players!



It's getting harder and harder to sit through this torture....and it's not the Stoop that is the problem, jaybs, its the rubbish that's being played on the pitch!



Jeez, we thought we had hit rock bottom last year....our only success so far has been finding a new all-time low!