O'Meley was the pick of the props imo and Fitz put in another commited display. Horne and Washy both tried hard but it just seemed like every time they got the ball the momentum stopped. Some credit has to go to the Crusaders defence for rushing out and cutting off the wide runners but they just seemed to take far too long to get their passes away and ended up just holding it and cutting back inside.

cheers, bring on the quins

mmm maybe not lol

At last, someone who is speaking sense.

Some of the over-reaction on here has been unbelievable.

As has some of the over hype bollox

Good post.



We win a game and people talk of MOS awards etc. We lose a game and it's Agar out etc etc.



It's really quite tedious on here so well done for being more balanced.

Good post ZH.

Defensively we never controlled them and they will us with second phase possession from offloads. They had all the territory in the 1st half and to go in at 12-12 was quite good. 2nd half was better but we failed to produce with the ball in hand.



I blame attitude more than anythign else, like most of the fans I think the players turned up expecting to win and you can't do that in SL anymore.



Tansey must play 7 whilst Long is out, he was head and shoulders our best player today. Even if it means changing 4/5 other players it has to be done. Also Hall needs to play centre, he showed today how elusive he can be with ball in hand.



The other thing is it's easy to blame Horne and Washy but there were so many times when they tried to take on the line with no support that it was untrue. It was one out most of the time. The other thing I noticed again with our attack is the lack of width and wrong focus. When the dummy half passes the ball the next player is too close. The next player should be a bit wider and then next player wider still and then have the runners off that man which means the attack is focused on fringe defenders. By the time we get the ball out that wide it's gone through 3/4 pairs of hands and is way too slow. This results in us attacking the wrong defenders and the halfbacks having less time and space. I don't know why we don't do it???



Still it's one game, just like Saints was so lets see how the Quins game goes.

I guess it could have been far worse, had Agar not played mind games about Long.

Great post

Good post.



I was pretty cross listening on KCFM yesterday (and that was just DDD), but you put a decent spin on it. Roll on Friday!

All good points. I think we've had enough of the wrong attitude for 2 years now and it's time the coach stopped putting teams out with anything other than the right attitude. He might think about dropping certain 'names' and replacing them with hungrier fringe players to achieve that.

Great post, good to see both positives and negatives and not the extremes, which is too common on here.



And I agree Staffs, I think he said in his post-match interview that there will be a couple of changes, will be interesting to see what he does. About Luauki, he does need to control his temper and stop mouthing off. He did it against Hudds, and did again yesterday, from what I've heard on numerous occasions. We do need to take his rough with the smooth, but only as long as there is more smooth then rough!