Defence Defence Defence

Quote: Michael Potter "

JUST LOOKING BACK TO HULL KR. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS NOW?

Well we'd pretty much lost the game after the first twenty minutes. We made six errors in our own half and you can't do that because you just can't cope with that amount of possession against you. Defensively we were poor on our edges. I thought the middle defended very well but our edges were poor. It's not what we practised to do and it gives us something to keep working on. Having said that there were some things we did very well but we just didn't spend enough time down their end of the field to make them count.

It's pretty much the same mistakes every week and we are continuing to work with players individually and in team groups and with the team as a whole. We will just keep doing what we know works and hopefully we will start getting some results. We have some things that need urgently addressing. It's becoming a bit of a theme that when the opposition score, some heads go down. Well it's not about what has happened; it's about how we react to it and what comes next. Having that body language is not good and we are trying to get across to the players that it's what you do about it that matters. It's about changing that mindset. Whether you have conceded or scored; it's how you react. I think our players are very sensitive at the moment to the fact that we aren't winning games. It's not that we aren't trying; we are trying hard to win every game we go into. We are just not working in the right direction all the time, which is what we have to do.
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Some interesting comments on the attitudes of some players. We'll see if heads go down to easy this week for sure.