Scruton says in an interview today that Brian Smith suggested he leave his wife and kids to improve his rugby.

I have a lot of time for Smith but for me that is way out of line.
Especially as Mrs Scruton worked at the club.

Smith was going through a messy divorce so I reckon was not in a good place for that kind of advice.

Jesus! Where's this PT?

I hope there's more to it and it wasn't as direct as that.

https://twitter.com/rlwithjd/status/114 ... 03936?s=19

https://twitter.com/rlwithjd/status/114 ... 03936?s=19

Don't know the full context but seems odd, that however doesn't mean Smith didn't think he was helping.

He may well have thought he was but I think it is at least showing a lack of emotional intelligence of how someone would react to such a suggestion and at worst interfering with someone's life.

The fact that Scruton was so agast at the suggestion shows how off the mark it was.

Totally ridiculous suggestion!

The bloke was capable of being spectacularly wrong just as often as was searingly correct!

Any respect I had for Brian Smith went when he left three games into the season.

The situation was a bit more complex than him just deciding to leave. Certain people know more than me; but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t that simple.

Seem to recall him suggesting the club was in trouble on Facebook and loads of people accepted that and backed him up. Where’s that post gone ?

I could not defend a coach saying that to a player, however, Nick Scruton was one of the players to complain about the hard close season training that Brian Smith had them doing, that is the fittest i have ever seen Wakefield as a team ! Chester certainly benefited as did the players & team ! But I counted that with poor attacking playing tactics which Chester is better at !!!
I love Wakey T, but we are still not fit enough for 80 minutes on a regular basis ! only my opinion !

Not as bad as Shudds looked on Friday

Tricky balance, I guess. Didn't Chris Chester say when he first moved to us that he aimed to put a smile back on the players' faces? The result of that was an amazing upturn. I wouldn't have a clue where the tipping point is, a player being fit but not enjoying it against a player being fit and raring to go.

Any fitness issues we've had seem to be more to do with older players being a bit busted as opposed to players not being fit across the board. Our problem has been lacklustre first halves, which suggests fitness isn't the issue.