Tuesday 4 February 2020

Here we go again...

Where to start with this club eh?

I will be honest and say there have been times over the last week where I have been thinking that investing my time, money and interest in another club would be preferable.

After this shambles, the transfer window for my family and I remains open. Get in touch if your club needs supporters.

But I am old school and am cut from the cloth that says when you pick a team you stick with a team.

How Steve McNamara retained his job last season remains the best magic trick I have seen since David Blaine was suspended over the River Thames in a box.

It defies belief. He got a lucky run to win the Challenge Cup final of 2018 but even then managed to ship out that seasons best player in Josh Drinkwater and replace him with Matty Smith... How'd that one work out Steve?

We have gone from playing some of the most exciting rugby in the division to some of the worst and if anyone was looking at us as a playoff club this year, you want to give your head a shake.

We are in a battle to stay up and need to hope Toronto keep the level of performance they put in on Sunday.

It's not just McNamara that's at fault here though. The club seems to be carnage from the meat cleaver wielding owner down.

Recruitment seems a joke.... Remember Josh Drinkwater from a couple of paragraphs ago? he got brought back once the club realised Matty Smith needed a lot of time to get fit. Confused?

You will be.

Joel and Sam Tomkins seemed to bring the worst out of each other, especially in a McDonalds... so they spent some time apart with Samkins in France with us and Joelkins at Hull KR. This winter the club felt they should be back together... in a beach resort with loads of bars.

So far so good, but there is still plenty of time for that to go nuclear.

All of this bizarre, bizarre behaviour has been knocked into a cocked hat by the awful decision to sing Israel Folau.  You will all have read John D's excellent pieces on this site about that issue and seen we are committed to trying to push an agenda that is against hatred, so no more needs adding on that.

However throwing all of this in the mix, it's probably very little surprise that Dragons were beaten heavily by Huddersfield.

Catalans Dragons (6) 12

T : Fouad Yaha, Sam Tomkins
G : James Maloney 2

Huddersfield Giants (16) 32

T : Joe Wardle, Jermaine McGillvary 2, Aidan Sezer, Louis Senior
G : Aidan Sezer 6

Where do we go from here?

Well Wakefield actually... and I fear another hiding is coming.