Quote: Hacked Off "It must be a worry if you can't get up for or bring your A game to a quarter final. Do you think this is an indication of a lack of big game mentality or the start of your annual decline?'"
It might be a worry about bringing our A-game to a quarter final, but yesterday was the same script that I've seen twice already this season against Warrington. It was the result of getting completely bullied in the middle of the park which resulted in a massive possession deficit. If you have as little of the ball as we did, then any team will usually beat you; if you do that against a team like Warrington then you have to expect to get embarrassed.
It's not the start of a decline, in the two previous seasons our decline has started in or around the mid-point of the season either over Easter or at the "magic" weekend; whereas this season we're six games from the play-offs, sat second in the league and part of a three horse race for the top spot.