I think that Russell got caught out too many times yesterday. Out of position once is forgivable, but 3 times Ormsby scored from identical moves. Is it Russell's fault though ? Last season Russell said he wanted to play wing, so he needs to step it up when in that position.

BUT........ is this not the same wing, and playing outside the same centre that Chris Riley used to get slated for being "MIA". Atkins is having a cracking season going forward but I still think question marks exist on why he (or the system makes him) play too narrowly in defence. As a result, our winger is often caught 2(or3) on 1, and often get caught when they come inside to cover the centre channel.

The frustrating thing about this season, is frustration its self.

Without getting [iall Wigan [/i about this, we SHOULD be winning this league at a canter.

Sizeable leads in games against Stains (h), Hull (a) simply thrown away. Sizeable leads given away yesterday (twice, 8 and 10 points), the bizarre game against Salford (a), add to this, only managing to draw against 12 men for 50 minutes, HKR, and getting nilled against the bottom team, just shows the frustration for us fans.

5 years ago (under the same coach), when we got 2 try leads against sides, we'd put them to the sward, and put fifty on them. Nowadays, we invite them back into the game. To me, that's not SL getting more competitive, more us being complacent .

I fully agree with deckchair's comments, about us being a side with good players yet not being a good side. Realistically, there's only us paying transfer fees for British talent, namely Clark, Lineham and Westerman. Add this to proven talent like Sandow and Gidley, and established players like Hill and Westwood, and a somewhat rejuvenated Atkins, we're nowhere near the levels we should be at.

As I've said before, when we were 7 wins from 7 games after Good Friday, people on here were saying it's down to fitness levels. I disagreed with it then, and still do now. Our great start was down to attitude. We had a never say die outlook (Salford and Cats away) added to the sweeping away of sides (Cas HKR). Since then, we've seen the lack of attitude, as I alluded to re throwing away leads, not forgetting the total capitulation v Cas at Newcastle.

Are the players and coach [ion easy street[/i? Don't forget, we extended Smith's contract not long after the great start, and his attitude to me, has been [ic'est la vie[/i ever since.

A couple of days ago, we had a thread regarding Moran's deep pockets. He may well be sewing them up again, as we're not seeing anything for it, recently. We saw the same with Peter Higham. Top dollar Aussies (Boyd, Davidson, Roach, Blake) to the Welsh experiment (Phillips Bateman, Ellis and Davies). He stopped buying big, then switched to youth ( Harris, Hilton, Wainwright, Sculthorpe, Roper). He's a businessmanm and the scattergun approach with the chequebook has wielded nothing since 2012.

Food for thought.

Excellent post. Not a fan of negativity but this is realism. At our best we are way ahead of anyone in this league but have barely shown it since Easter. We have had disruption but all teams have that it is as quoted down to attitude as shown in our first game at Leeds.

I am hoping Tony Smith is building us up to that for the business end. Play together as a team with attitude and we will have all 3 trophies because we know we have the individual skill which has been getting us through games recently

To be honest,i think our first try was very fortunate & i think Huddersfield were very unlucky not to score off what was a very good move. Like many teams this year Hudds were making easy yards with the ball & mostly only handing over possession in parts of the field that weren't to our advantage.
Let's not kid ourselves, both sides scored 6 tries,which is quite good for a bottom of the table club, & we won because of more consistent goalkicking, just as we lost to Hull & Saints earlier in the season. Our team does ,& has done for a few seasons, find itself short of ideas when close to the opponents line & many attacks collapse at close to the line plays after a lot of hard work to get there.

Yesterday wasn't great but I honestly believe we will bring our A game in the semi final.