Whilst I don't blame Lowes, it was a very Lowes-esque performance. Ie, it was what we were churning out week in week out pre Smith. It's difficult for us to know why that was, we're not in the camp, i'm sure that Smith will get to the bottom of it, what was clear from minute one though was that we had no shape, our defensive structures were poor, and every collision Bradford looked like winning, I thought they looked like making a bust every touch of the ball, they looked fitter and had far more appetite for the game, which annoys me.

When I turned up today I said to the guy beside me if we lose this everyone's gonna blame jimmy and he agreed!
It was a very jimmy like performance, but we were due a loss. all those people that have been thinking of 10 game winning runs needed a reality check. hopefully that has come today and we can put that behind us and realise we're not invincible and we need to realise we've pulled things back well this season but there's a lot of hard work to do!
If we lose next week aswell, will that be down to Tony or the same players who played this week? Anyone is going to struggle losing 3 of their best players plus Briers.

Cheers Jimmy.

believe what you want lowes in charge and yet another defeat no effort'no passion, no heart. no chance when lowes is in charge

Lowes Out!

Fingers crossed, I think he will go at the end of the year.

What a bizarre thread !!

That's the key really. When I looked @ the interchange bench my thoughts were that Monas was to play interchange hooker, with Briers going off that plan was in the bin.

Fact is Clarke & Bridge with Monas should have been good enough to move us around the park which they weren't.

Don't think you can lay all the blame with Lowes. Considering the players away and the Briers injury he was really on a hiding to nothing. If Wire had won convincingly then I'm sure the credit would have gone to TS.

That doesn't mean I'm a Lowes fan, far from it.

I SAW that as well, would have been an inspirational move in my opinion, shame briers got injured.

very unfair

When we lose next time are you going to attack TS with such vigour

Bridge is better at centre but:
1) With Higham out we needed someone else to cover that role
2) Bridge has looked reasonably good alongside Briers
3) The backs still lined up well even with Bridge at 6

Without Briers Bridge hasn't enough variation in his game to carry the 6 slot, but no-one could have predicted Brier's injury would make this necessary.