both half backs were average and the kicking game was awful, non existant at times. he's deluded

Sounds like a copy and paste summary of the opposition in many of our games from the middle of last year

You must have mis-heard, surely?

He said it was good. Which it was. It got us out of a hole a couple of times when we were stuck near our own line and more often than not our kicks found the ground and gave us decent metres downfield.
He also praised Saints better kicking and said the main difference between the 2 teams was the kicking.

It wasn't even good. It was amateurish at best,

That's just being silly though isn't it. It clearly wasn't amateurish otherwise the kicks wouldn't have found the ground and they wouldn't have gained much ground. Which, in general, they did.

Which other aspects of our kicking impressed though? Short kicking? Cross field? 40/20 attempts? I thought there was a lot lacking tbh. And even our kicking up field was aided by some very tentative attempts to field the ball by saints.

You must have been watching a different match to most other people. Your view is in the minority. It was awful kicking display, the whole game management full stop. Any amateur can boot a rugby ball, if that is all that floats your boat.

So he didn't say "very good" then? 1st game of the season and they're making **** up already.
Kicking was OK considering the pressure we were under at times but Saints' kicking was definitely the difference, just like the coach said.

I'd Agree with Him, and though I can't read his mind, Brian Mac in that our long kicking game was pretty good. I think our attacking kicks started in the right vein but we didn't execute and went away from it really quickly.

Interesting watching the Wire put in a similar performance to the one we put in against catalan today, in my opinion of course. Could just be an early season thing, and I realise Wire have the WCC to worry about.

Sutcliffe was VERY GOOD according to McDermott.

A very bizarre comment TBF from Mac IMO
IMO Sutty's best position is centre as he is an out and out runner of the footy rather than an organiser or a directer of play

The long kicking was ok.the rest of the kicking game was non existant and Sutcliffe was dire.

Not really bizzare, while Sutty was let's be honest pretty bad, I wouldn't expect a coach to throw a young player under the bus after a very narrow loss. Especially one who has shown he is capable of better and who we might see a lot of if Danny's injury problems continue.