I thought Hall regardless of the position he was told to play fulfilled his duties. Having no prominent halfback who could dictate play around the park is where they failed.

No, its not just you!

I thought exactly the same!!

The two bits highlighted is where the season was lost for me. Replace these with McNally and either Ridyard / Drinkwater and we win at least 5 out of first 6 games. I also think Purtill will be ruing keeping Hall at Full back for his first one and a half games.

As for the departed players in general, yes they're doing well. They did well for us from week 7 onwards, but the damage was done. Watch the Halifax away game back. Hall, Crooks and B Thompson were all disgraceful.

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Yesterday our defence was all over the show , again because we didn't have a true full back organising , also we saw on several occasions long range ' cut out ' passes being thrown rather than having a full back/ex half joining the line third man out with the vision and skill to time and execute the pass and potentially then support the winger

Used to drive me nuts way back when I'd hear our fans lambasting Niel Turley , " Run it in you soft ******* " as he jinked in and out giving time for our forwards to get back up field into position , without trying to smash his way through bigger opponents who would happily try to take him out of the game given the chance , and then a minute later he'd be crossing the oppositions try line after getting on the end of a line break , offload or an inside pass from the winger , Similarily with McNally

I will always maintain that we would not have lost the MPG had McNally played, early doors we had 3 opportunities to score, the ball was moved left to right on each occasion but every one of our players had a marker on them, it cried out for the full back to come into the line, which was McNallys domain, Hampshire was nowhere to be seen, had we taken those chances I believe history would have been re-written, but genius Cunningham who I believe was instrumental in selecting Hampshire say it differently.