Quote: M@islebugs "Our big forwards couldn't handle the conditions and Sheff worked our middle over. Wallace, England and Doyle worked their balls off but Sheff advanced as a line. The backs tried their best to help out but Crossley, Walker, Evans, Baldwinson couldn't get up and back. Every time we pinned them in their own 20 the ref gave a penalty because we couldn't make the 10. Corey Johnson looked lost. Walker only came back on when the game was over. Why is he so big?
I don't believe the stuff about attitude or falling in love with ourselves for one minute. Our defensive line speed, totally and 100% collapsed in the conditions because of the fitness and condition of our middles to handle an absolute bog. We simply weren't prepared and we desperately lack work rate and legs around the ruck.'"
I didn't watch the game so can't comment on the fitness/attitude. However listening to the radio (so apologies if this isn't accurate) it sounded like the same schoolboy errors that cost us last season. In that second half we got caught on the last tackle on the half way line early on in the half and never recovered as it sounded like we didn't get out of our own half from that point on. We had a 7 tackle set after they kicked the ball dead, knocked-on first tackle. Then we were 2 points ahead with 10 minutes to go, and we fail to deal with a kick-off. I'd love to see the stats on us fielding kick-offs as I reckon we must make more errors than the entire league combined.
So frustrating as we get ourselves in good positions to do well as a club and completely blow it all by ourselves. Sheffield will be in the bottom 4 and we've lost our first home game of the season against them.