What's happening with this lad, confidence, past it, not fully fit, lack of concentration, trying too hard?

Tonight, sorry Ryan but in a game that lacked general quality anyway you managed to pick up the absolute stinker prize.

+1

Shame, his near first pass to Penny for his try was a peach!

....saying that, he probably could have scored himself too.

I didn't think he was that bad.. Oh well it wouldn't be a new season without a player for the fans to dig out..

Hence why i asked a question rather than full on slate him, but to defend his performance as anything other than poor is something an American lobbyist would struggle with.
It's not scapegoating to say someone is poor either, especially of they are poor.

Personally I would not have moved Currie to accommodate him, however while Atkins had only just returned to action following injury, and so long as we continue to win, I'll allow more time to regain match fitness.

I was seething with him after he dropped that walk in from Sandow. But in the cold light of day I can see hes just a player whos a bit low on form. Admittedly I also can't remember the last time I though . Atkins had a good game today .
I just think Now we have the reserves side we should let him play there for a few weeks to bring back the confidence and bring in Toby King to cover .

Wasn't the best pass from Sandow who messed up what should have been a walk in. Atkins should still have taken it though.

I think you had a better angle . It looked like it was straight to his hand from where i was stood.
I think the whole south stand had a collected Sigh at that point .

It beggars belief that Wire Yed (esteemed Forum Monitor) should return from the game and rush to add a comment on events by handing out the "absolute stinker" award. For that I hand out the "Totally Intact Richard" award to him. Couldn't you think of something positive to say about the game? Pathetic.

What was a shame, was that the two previous games we have looked dangerous as the ball is thrown out, with great lines being run by the centres and that did stop last night on his side. I thought Rhys a decent game on the other side and got through a lot of work. He is quality player and will score 15+ tries this season as he has done for most of is time at the Wolves. He will get back to his best with half backs like those two

A game and a half in and we've already got a thread having a go at Atkins. Thought he was fine last night other than the dropped ball. Some bellend in the South started giving him abuse after someone dropped the ball in the play after Ryan had been tackled?

The opinion i got from Atkins for dropping the walk in try was that Sandow was giving Wakey the run around but was running out of options of who to pass to & decided to throw the long pass to Ryan which went to ground, he was in a similar situation against HKR & threw out a similar pass to Lineham who scored off it.
I think in Sandow we have a player who was much better than some of us expected, very off the cuff with his passing & a good range of field kicks. Maybe it is just a case of the coach fine tuning the team to Sandow's style of play. I think we have signed a rare talent though who was a victim of bad Aussie press.
I know we dropped a lot of ball last night & put ourselves under unnecessary pressure but i thought it was a very enjoyable game to which Wakey made a good contribution too. Can't remember a ref giving so many penalties for not square though.

I'm not his biggest supporter but he does look to be trying hard, perhaps too hard to get right. A bit like Penny used to do.
I still think the centre isn't his position. I rather see Currie or Hughes at centre and roll Atkins into the back row for a stint. It wouldn't effect structure too much but would release some of the pressure put on him over his passing skill, which he looks like he is desperate to resolve.