Quote: Pumpetypump "I'm not feeling the woe just yet because the injuries we have, and the specific positions they are in, means we were always going to lose this one in my opinion. Like someone else said I was very surprised how many tipped a bulls win. Not sure where that optimism stemmed from.
If we still look adrift and clueless when we are playing with settled halfbacks and a strong, fit pack, then I will start to worry.'"
Indeed.
I had us down to probably lose this one long before the injuries/suspension so I'm far from surprised. For sure, we could/should have cut out some/most of the errors and definitely all the gobbing off but I still wasn't disappointed. Well only about the nil, I certainly didn't expect that, but not about the display as we were always on a loser with neither halves nor our best tactical kickers in the line up.
On the plus side I thought the effort shown by the lads was exemplary. We never gave up and many sides would have collapsed totally in the last quarter, so they get a big round of applause from me for that.