Well, that was fecking awful. You can't play for 15 mins and expect a win. 

It's from 14, 15, 16 and 17 that we aren't getting enough. And no's 2 and 5 are completely forgotten about until the game is gone.

The optimist in me likes to think that's because they're marked out of the game and shut down, but the pessimist (realist?) side of me thinks we just don't bring them into the game until it's too late as we said. 

Burgess seemingly happy with that according to his interview then. He must have seen a different match to me. I have a horrible feeling we're banking on Wembley. Ugh. 

Our reserves and academy keep winning week after week. Any chance we can see some of those lads in the team in the near future? Especially seeing as a lot of that so called team we had out today thankfully won't be here next season. 

That would require thinking outside the box! I also believe that first team football would suck the life out of them. 

A champion team scores when 4 pts behind and 8 mins on the clock.


That, we are not 

We're no different now than we've been in the past 8 years. In fact I'd argue at least we had better defence under Price. Attack still toothless, its painful to watch. And I wouldn't mind so much if Burgess called it like it was but he now seems to have fallen into pretending like we're making a good fist of it when the reality is we don't give a until its do or die and then we wanna start playing. Would be nice to see Tai & Dufty release the ball every now and then aswell - Ashton and Thewlis only get the ball when they fall back for a kick.

A dreadful watch. We were never in it despite the close scoreline earlier on. Leigh had 2 tries disallowed and we only came back with 2 scores in the last quarter. too little too late. Too much one out rugby. We looked slightly better when walker went to 9. Not sure why use him as a 6 as we never even used his kicking game. We tried him at 6 a few years ago IIRC and it didn't work. We may as well have stuck Currie there. We had some joy on the left edge with Dufty but we didn't try this enough (until we were chasing the game). Only glimmer of hope is that Saint's are just as bad as us in attack so unless with can grind out a slug fest next week i feel we're in for another loss. 

I can literally hear Morrissey singing this:

Garbage team selection
Garbage squad utilisation
Players we siggggn and don't truuust
Players we sign and persist with
Even though they are useless
No rugby IQQQQ between them

Picture the scene


You enter a surprise competition,  where your prizes are allocated on the draw.


Way hey, you've won 


Your prize is an allocated concert,  with transport and food included.


Your transport is a brown Austin Maestro


Your food is an unlimited supply of ready salted crisps


The concert is Coldplay 


That's how ordinary we are. Drab, drab, DRAB.


All that expectation, and that's what you get.
Tai, Russell, Crowther, Powell and plenty more that are NOWHERE NEAR the level of what's required to challenge. 


We are where we always were. Competitive in some big games, but short when it MATTERS, and still lose normal games.


The Burgess and Vaughan extensions of contracts are coming home to roost. Both need to earn their money.....let's see it.