Incredulous was my first feelings on hearing Stevo on backchat this morning?

He attacked the Bulls big style for the circumstances surrounding the dismissal of Francis and Lee. Citing the disgraceful way it was done by the Management, after FC and Hillaire had been totally loyal to the club and had single handedly kept us afloat when the chips were down...True to a large extent?

But did he fully appreciate the circumstances surrounding this obviously very difficult situation we as a club were faced with.

Firstly we have shipped approx. 40 points against us in every game we have played recently, also 4 games in 16 is still the worst result in the league barring the bottom club, London. Irrespective of the 6 points deduction.



Tell me Stevo if these results had happened with, say Leeds, would you have been surprised if GH had have made this decision? Would you maybe have said, "I don't know what else they could have done?"



What you forget is that the Bulls supporter base is dropping drastically, because they deserve consideration also.

Most supporters don't care what happens behind the scenes, they support for the reasons of entertainment, and to see their team,who they identify with, perform well on the field of play> they don't expect them to win every game, but what they do expect is to go away from the ground after the game with an element of pride, that their team have done the best they could, and have attempted to always salvage a result with pride and commitment.



They haven't seen anything like this for months, effort yes. But it has never looked like the things they expect, which is why season ticket holders and long term supporters are voting with their feet.



Not only that my erstwhile impartial friend. ( or supposed to be impartial) what about all the hospitality and matchday staff who have been laid off since the debacle with our team? And office and lottery staff, plus Marketing and others, why didn't you show any empathy for all who have given, and worked for nothing over the last two years. Don't you realise that the BAROMETER of a club's success is mostly on the field of play for most fans. If those results are as appalling as ours have been, something has to change, unfortunately collateral damage always takes place. WE did not need Matt Diskin's comments, and we certainly didn't need your outburst either. Most of us a deeply saddened by what had to happen.



Change was inevitable, it's just a shame we have had to suffer "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune " once again.

If Stevo, Irvine et al. are moaning, you can pretty much be sure that we've done the right thing.

Thing I find with SKY pundits (and Gary Schofield made this point the other week) they aren't really critical enough of anyone. You watch other sports program's and they slate teams if they have performed poorly. RL just seem to say "he'll be disappointed with that effort"



I'm sure they will quote the line of Walker playing at prop and asking what else he could do, but he didn't have to play Walker at prop. Also we won't losing games in the last 20 minutes which you could put down to not having a big squad and us tiring. But oppositions HALF BACKS were running straight through us I'm the first 20 minutes when we should have been ripping in to them.

What I find incredulous is that anyone thinks Stevo's opinions are worth 20 minutes typing a message in response.

This.

With respect I would rather hear Stevo`s comments - having had the audacity to actually score a try against Australia for his Country - than most people on these Forums.

OTOH somebody's got to get the message out, say come on.

Your time here might then be less profitably spent than you would like, since he does not frequent these Forums.

What he said..

Stevo has become a caricature of himself and acts more like a 'shock jock', just out to create the headline. I wouldn't ever knock Stevo for what he's achieved in the game because he was superb, but just like Gary Schofield, he's taken up trying to be the story instead of reporting it.



Sad really, Stevo knows as well as anyone how it rolls in pro sport, and RL is no different from all the others.

I agree with that completely



Also while we are on about Back Chat,Rod Studd is the most annoying tool in the Sky Sports box.

I would say he is a whisker behind Paul Cullen...