gloss it up all you like......

Quote: the flying biscuit "Matty Russell is a huge problem for us... he is great on the Eye when running the ball out from the back, and when the team is largely rubbish and lacking effort and skill, he looks quite good.
Unfortunately he doesnt link up at all with the backs like Hodgson did (who does though) but more worringly he doesnt do it as much as Mathers did.

Its players like this that just make us massively weaker all round the park.

We missed Hodgson Last night more than any of the other departees.

favourite moment for me last night was in the last couple of Minutes Waterhouse put a decent hit on a player and stood over him with the billy big balls stance he does as if to say "did you like that" and the dummy half picked the ball up and ran right past him without him even knowing.

It was disgraceful but funny in a painful kind of way.

I dont have a game in my immediate memory bank that I can say was as bad as that.

Tony Smith defend that poop at your peril'"

I said something similar about Russell on a thread the other week.
Running it in he's brilliant, industrious and gets us on the front foot.
He's brave and he's got that knack of knocking off tacklers.

I noticed though that he does on ocassions slow down attacking plays, he chimes in and almost stops play.
Can't fault his effort though.

I do love some of the comments on twitter blowing Fiddlers ferry amounts of smoke up his backside.
The same people who think 5 scoot rugby is exciting.