Quote: Winslade's Offload "Our intensity within the forwards was nowhere near good enough and that tends to obscure / bias interpretation of what else was lacking from some of our players. The half backs have little room to work, and the ball never reaches the wing because the forwards are tied up by the opposition in mid field. And of course if the defensive line is slow it simply encourages the opposition to run at you even harder. So instead of seeing the attacking flair from your best players you see their defensive qualities instead, which in some instances (Patton, Ratchford) is not their best.
Fix the intensity and you probably get a more balanced view of the players. You can guess what level of intensity we will see against Salford.
Having said all that, we do need at least one, preferably two decent bench props, and they are not going to come from the Academy in the short term.'"
Can't argue with that - our pack were owned on the day.
