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Interesting to hear Hall speaking post match pitch side, calling out Willie Peters half time speech for being positive and having a negative effect on the team’s second half performance.

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2 hours ago, Sports Prophet said:

Interesting to hear Hall speaking post match pitch side, calling out Willie Peters half time speech for being positive and having a negative effect on the team’s second half performance.

That’s what he brings to the club. Incomparable experience. Every day is a school day, and if Hall is right then Willie will improve from that feedback.

Every club needs more than one “coach”

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1 hour ago, Worzel said:

That’s what he brings to the club. Incomparable experience. Every day is a school day, and if Hall is right then Willie will improve from that feedback.

Every club needs more than one “coach”

It’s one thing to be a leader with vast experience and give feedback, but to declare it publicly like that is just not on in my opinion. 

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It was refreshing to hear a player express an opinion rather than churn out the usual tripe of ‘yeah the boys dug deep, we just got back to the process, completing our sets and maintaining our discipline’.

Differences of opinion are healthy in an organisation and even if it was publicly, it wasn’t anything controversial. He’s a senior player with plenty of experience of winning something so his views hold some weight. It’s also the sort of attitude that Leeds would benefit from next year 

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Yes. There's no question he did criticise Peters's approach a bit, and a younger player who perhaps wasn't SL's all time leasing tryscorer might get in trouble for it - particularly relaying the criticism to Brian Carney rather than more discreet channels.

As it is, it made for good insight and I'm sure no harm done.

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1 minute ago, Just Browny said:

Yes. There's no question he did criticise Peters's approach a bit, and a younger player who perhaps wasn't SL's all time leasing tryscorer might get in trouble for it - particularly relaying the criticism to Brian Carney rather than more discreet channels.

As it is, it made for good insight and I'm sure no harm done.

It was quite surprising.

Ryan's a legend, who's about to retire and move into a leadership position elsewhere, so he'll get away with it. What are they going to do, drop him from the GF?

Anyone else tho, it'd be a fine, 10 laps and a b#ll#cking behind the scenes. Whatever the merits of the case, you don't criticise your own coach's methods live on TV.

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1 hour ago, The Blues Ox said:

Im sure this could lead to a fantastic League Express article with an out of context title........

You'd need it to happen four more times first.

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1 hour ago, Toby Chopra said:

It was quite surprising.

Ryan's a legend, who's about to retire and move into a leadership position elsewhere, so he'll get away with it. What are they going to do, drop him from the GF?

Anyone else tho, it'd be a fine, 10 laps and a b#ll#cking behind the scenes. Whatever the merits of the case, you don't criticise your own coach's methods live on TV.

Are you commenting on Leeds work ethic by saying he is about to retire.

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It's easier to gloss over it because they won, but had he said it after a Warrington come back win, it would have created much more of a stir.

I think he just got carried away with the moment, rather than it being a calculated slight at the manager - I expect he was still angry and frustrated because he felt the team hadn't come out for the second half with the right attitude.

Nevertheless, it's not the sort of thing it's acceptable to say as a player, and hopefully he will apologise to the manager behind the scenes, if not also in public.

It's difficult for a manager because they've only got a few minutes at half time to make their points, and therefore you can't customise things individually for each player. I'm sure when Willie Peters speaks to his players throughout the week in training or privately, he knows which players respond to praise and which ones need a bit of tough love etc.

But he doesn't have that luxury in a crowded changing room at half time.

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For what it's worth, we can't complain about players talking in cliches and being robotic and then complain when they are as honest as Hall was and as light-hearted as Joe Burgess was.

I enjoyed both interviews. What I took from the Hall one is how he responds to being pushed on and strive harder yet Peters may have concluded that the team more widely benefited from a more encouraging and positive approach.

Must be very difficult for coaches to make team talks when different players respond better to different things.

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3 hours ago, Dunbar said:

Are you commenting on Leeds work ethic by saying he is about to retire.

Lol, you're right, I forgot he was going to play one more year before moving upstairs. Will he be so blunt in public about the Leeds coach?

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33 minutes ago, Chris22 said:

For what it's worth, we can't complain about players talking in cliches and being robotic and then complain when they are as honest as Hall was and as light-hearted as Joe Burgess was.

I enjoyed both interviews. What I took from the Hall one is how he responds to being pushed on and strive harder yet Peters may have concluded that the team more widely benefited from a more encouraging and positive approach.

Must be very difficult for coaches to make team talks when different players respond better to different things.

Yeah, it is a bit of a funny one, I don't even bother with the interviews a lot of the time so we should encourage individuality in them.

But if I was his coach I wouldn't be happy with him. I think it's a bit arrogant to present his preference as being a core reason why Wire were better in the 2nd half.

The reality is it was two evenly matched teams and it was always likely that Wire were going to get a good spell in the match. That's how RL often works.

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Reading the headline above (and many others), I wonder if the word 'slam' in the title was yet another click bait tactic or merited in this case? 

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