Sickness.

Get into their faces and especially pressure Walsh and we have every change, addey and Gaskell are more than capable of putting in decent kicks, last season addey did extremely well at 7 when he gale gale kept switching. Like we bag gale as crap then when he is missing it's the end of the world make up your minds.
I have every confidence we will pull out all the stops and maybe even a surprise today here hoping.

To be honest I don't think Gale is a huge miss. Even last week, he did ok. Nothing more. Put a few decent kicks in and that's a bout it. He's been pretty poor this season overall. Agree with other comments about Kear at FB. He's a much better FB than Foster, but like other coaches, FC seems fixated on this chiming into the line tactic. First job of a FB is be able to catch a high ball and tackle a man on a break. Kear is better than Foster on both these attributes. Fosters been playing well on wing, keep him there. Yet to see him play well at FB.

No props on bench.
Why wasn't Bates in squad, is he injured too?

Gale won't be missed that much,but Kearney,that's another matter.

Simple,don't give Walsh any room to dictate play and get in his face.

We look clueless going forward once again. Not good.

Where has the passion from last week gone?

No doubt the coach will take some positives so here is mine. Next year's season ticket will be cheaper !

The passing from the teams at half time was better than ours. Don't think I remember a team who pass as bad as ours (that's when we do pass) Just awful!

Dire x 100

Pretty dismal afternoon. Came up against a very good Saints side but we don't do ourselves any favours. You can't expect to compete with the better sides when we gift so many opportunities to attack our line. Badly missed Gale and BK in attack, I don't think we even came close to scoring other than the solo effort from O'Brien. The injuries aren't helping us either but we are where we are I guess.

The appeal will make or break our season now for me, the sooner it is heard the better. Least we will realistically know where we stand and plan accordingly for the future.

Dire performance. Another game lost is another game closer to the Championship, players should take note with 2 teams less in SL you may not get to play in a SL team again so i could well be Championship rugby for you as well.

I know it didn't effect the result but how bad are
cummins use of interchange? In 60 minutes, used one interchange apart from O'brien for Diskin. He then brought George on for Kaufusi on 60mins. He then brought Mellor (who played well last week) on for for last 3 mins.

We lacked leadership and direction without any of BK, Gale or Diskin on the pitch.
I'm assuming Diskin picked up a knock as he never came back on the pitch after his first stint.
Gaskell is far more effective playing at FB, so hopefully Gale is ok for next week.

A disappointing performance, but realistically not a game we were ever going to win anyway.

We need some bodies back desperately. It's going to be hard enough as it is to pick up wins from here onwards, but without Gale, BK, Nas, Fakir, Ferguson and Donaldson it's pretty much impossible.

To be fair there was little point in risking Diskin once it became clear that the result was only heading in one direction. It'll be another Giants walkover next week though without some bodies back in the pack though. Obviously we will be without Kaufusi who has shown up well for us.