Just back. Missed opportunity. Still were in it till six minutes from
time but failing to score after the break when we had several good chances was costly. Some decent stuff in and amongst but the cup will be our best chance of making a final and some money for the foreseeable and it's a long time till the 2014 draw.

You were rubbish. The only tactic you had was hit and offload.

Completely outplayed. Well played London

Too much one out rugby up the middle got us nowhere!!

Force the ball too much when we just needed to build pressure...

I'm not claiming a crisis here but need to do some soul searching this week and get the tackle bags out!!!

The effort is clearly there... just wrong decision making.

am I the only one that thinks we are seriously underperforming since Gale came back from injury

Nail. Head. Along with plodding forwards.

It doesn't feel any better this morning either.

When it was announced Gale was leaving London I was pleased. He is a one trick pony. Every now and again he does something magical, like a chip over etc but in the main his game mgt is poor.
Gower showed him how to run a game last night

The wheels are half way down the road, lets hope someone can catch em and get em back on quick!

I agree about Gale, i was excited when he was due back but we've been poor with him in the side and with missing Langley and now Manoukafoa we are getting bullied down the middle.

The Salford game is MUST WIN now for me, a loss and it will be tough to get back in the 8.

He certainly hasn't performed so far this year but as you say neither have several other players recently. I did wonder if our small pack would be able to punch above its weight all season. To be honest they have done for much longer than I expected. I didn't see the game last night but it sounds like certain players are really letting the team down due to some poor form. It's difficult to see where changes can be made though without throwing in a bunch of kids which isn't a great idea. I think O'Brien coming in for a few games is one really obvious change we could make, but the lack of go forward without Manuokafoa in the side is going to be really tough to address.

Morale will probably be pretty low after that performance though. As Franny said after the game, nobody likes losing a cup tie but it is bearable if you at least give it your best. Sounds like we just didn't perform last night and it might be an opportunity lost to boost the coffers and feel good factor that making the latter stages of the cup would have brought.

Wonder if a loan signing of somebody like Richard Moore might help us? We need to bring somebody in and the options would seem to be pretty limited. He's struggling for a game at Leeds right now.

Agreed. If Kearneys injury isn't serious , then I would put him to 6, drop Gale and put Kear at FB.

Even more annoyed this morning and the players need a serious flogging this week.