Quote: dddooommm "This sums it up perfectly. Last week we were very good and today we were exceptionally bad. We've been brought back down to earth with an almighty bump!
I felt that we fell in love with ourselves after last weeks performance and all we had to do today was turn up and we'd take home the 2 points. We lacked go forward, our discipline and attitude was very poor and we looked absolutely shot to pieces in the final 10 minutes. We never seemed to win the arm wrestle and just let the Eagles march us back down the field time and time again.
Sheffield played the conditions perfectly and their kicking game and go forward in the second half had us pinned in our own 20 for large periods of the game. That area of the field was a mud bath and we couldn't get ourselves out of trouble. The game plan was all wrong and we tried to play fast expansive rugby in terrible conditions. Lots of individual errors stunted our limited attacking threats. Patton tried his hardest but became frustrated and ended up in the bin because of it. After we scored in the second half and got ourselves back in front, I said to myself, "Who's dropping it from the kick off then?" and Crossley goes and makes a meal of the restart.
A very bad day at the office for JK and the Bulls.'"
Couldn’t agree more with this. Fell in love with ourselves after the dewsbury result. Scoring very early against Sheffield and I think we started to think about Leigh next week. Before we knew it we were in a game and by half time we were only ever going to lose.
As someone else mentioned, even with the bad weather I was surprised how empty the terracing was. A good win today might have encouraged some back. Todays performance will have encouraged people to skip Leigh away (although I’ve already agreed to go
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