Quote: SomersetSaint "Psychologically, next weeks game is massive, and extends beyond the cup. If we win I reckon it will set us up nicely for tge rest of the season with the confidence that we can beat anyone in tge big games, no matter where we finish in the top eight. Lose, and we might as well hold the end of season party, because confidence will be shot, and I could see us taking a pasting in the next few difficult games, possibly even slipping back out of the top eight.'"
That's what I think as well.
I would also add I'm not as confident as Blobby in our defence. I don't think we look any different to how we looked under Simmons defensively and KC/Rush insist on letting Meli remain on the wing which, as we found out on Friday night, is an accident waiting to happen.
I am also still of the view that we are limited not by the coach but by the playing staff we have and that is why we are no more capable now of playing creatively when Robes is either absent or rendered ineffective than we were at the outset of the season. Our losses prior to Leeds were without Robes and we would go the same way again if he was out injured again.
We have missed Wilkin as an attacking threat and hopefully he will be back in the team on Saturday. He at least sometimes remembers that we have a right edge and chooses to use it. Robes/our halves seem incapable of passing anywhere other than to the left which is a great shame, especially while we have Makinson on the wing as he is pacey and a great finisher.