Nor do we have the forwards to win a game up front against a side willing to dig in.   York made more ground than us consistently. 


Halfbacks cant create.  We had heaps of good ball in the second half but no creativity shown at all.


Backs not ruthless enough.  That time we broke through in the second half, three on one and we muck it up.


Attack is hopeless.   Players look like strangers.  What do they do in training? 


Same old story from Noble postmatch. Hearing this too often now.  

Okunbor been poor for weeks but today was abysmal.  The dropped ball, the ambling back to get McShane's kick.  The inability to finish in the corner.  

Hallas at dummy half is like watching us in slow motion, despite the late try.  We're bad enough in attack without having the slowest service ever from dummy half.


Why was Rogers trying to step inside all the time?  Run your weight!  Our forwards hardly got a quick PTB all day.


Fulton running across the field too much.  Just kills the attack.  Rum straight!


Joe Keyes anonymous.  Doesn't look fit.  Both halfback chucking hospital passes.


No kick pressure and our kick chase lacked any vigour.


Doro the best player by miles and he's off back to HKR.

In a nutshell. The signings have been a massive let down and it looks very likely it will derail our chances of success this year.

We literally have nobody who can grab the game by the scruff of the neck and break down a strong defensive team. Our forwards did well today and probably got the better of York for most the game, but our attacking plays are so slow and predictable. Keyes offered zero running threat and his kicking was poor. I'm afraid neither him or Meadows are going to lead us to success and im not sure how we fix that this year.

I thought the pack was good today, it was other areas that let the team down massively. 

We were comfortably beaten up front in the first half.  York made more and more ground with each set and that got them in position to score their tries.


Second half flattered us because they kept dropping the ball.  

We barely had the ball for parts of the 1st half. It wasn't the forwards throwing offloads in our own half to nobody or putting in nothing kicks.

We've been outmuscled by York in previous games but today I didnt see that. I did see some clueless attacking shape though and nobody at halfback taking control.

I'm with Bullseye. When the two sides went set for set, York were consistently kicking on the last in our half. Whereas we were consistently kicking from our own half. York giving away soft penalties was what allowed us up field. Only for Lilley to miss a simple penalty and level the game up.


I feel for Keyes. He produced our one bit of quality. So there's not a chance I'd drop him. But he's had multiple half back partners who all have their own issues and who have also played different positions. No wonder pit attack looks off. Lilley needs to move on for me. He's simply not good enough to play 7 anymore but gets a free ride from the fans as he tries his nuts off. But we simply have to look at quality over effort now. 

I'm with Bullseye. When the two sides went set for set, York were consistently kicking on the last in our half. Whereas we were consistently kicking from our own half. York giving away soft penalties was what allowed us up field. Only for Lilley to miss a simple penalty and level the game up.


I feel for Keyes. He produced our one bit of quality. So there's not a chance I'd drop him. But he's had multiple half back partners who all have their own issues and who have also played different positions. No wonder pit attack looks off. Lilley needs to move on for me. He's simply not good enough to play 7 anymore but gets a free ride from the fans as he tries his nuts off. But we simply have to look at quality over effort now. 

Keyes was absolutely dreadful didn't look bothered.

Keyes hasn't been fit for a lot of the season and even when he has been fit he has been mostly underwhelming. The recruitment of Meadows and Keyes hasn't worked for the club and it was an area that we needed to strengthen to move forward. Unless we can pull a rabbit out the hat (which is highly unlikely) it will be our undoing this year.


Lilley has his imitations (certainly playing at halfback) but we'd be in a much worse place without him this year. I expect on Friday he will go back to hooker where has had his best games, unless Souter is back. If we are looking for a scapegoat there is are better candidates from this year's squad.


Does anyone know what is happening with Tafua, he seems to have been a few weeks away for about a month or so now. Could certainly do with his yardage carries coming out of our own half. 

Didn't say he played well, but again he was the only one who created anything. He was also the only one who backed up Hooleys late break so I don't buy he's not bothered.  


He's not playing well over 80 minutes. But as I said, when our spine is completely chopping and changing every week, it's causing an issue. Lilley tried but we could have still been playing today and I don't think he'd have created anything. He's no long passing game so it's a crash ball to Gee every time. He's an interchange Hooker now to bring some energy but that's it for me. 


Hooley/Holmes/Keyes needs to be our 1/6/7 now until the end of the season and see if they can get some cohesion/confidence together. 


For us to be at this stage of the season and our coach or fans not have any idea what's our best spine combination has been a farce and has what's cost us this season.