Not sure that we will get a better chance to win a game all season, we threw it away. The suicidal 5 minutes after half time undid 40 minutes of good work and we had ample opportunity to get back into the game but we failed to do so.

To me, there are 2 main issues at present, neither of which I am confident can be addressed this season. Firstly, we carry too many inexperienced and weak defenders, especially on the outside edges. I won't name names but I am sure we can all identify them. Every week there is a calamity of some description and I can't see it ending.

Secondly, I've never known a London team so utterly clueless in attack. We laid a fantastic platform for our backs but we were absolutely terrible whenever we got near the Huddersfield line. Drinkwater is an absolutely awful player. His kicking is dreadful, today even worse than usual. Passing appalling. Hopeless defender. Cunningham isn't good enough to play 6. Farrar is abysmal. We have no potency whatsoever when it comes to attacking, it's painful to watch. We can't even execute simple plays correctly. I've noticed that several posters are persistently calling for '1 or 2 big ugly props' but I think this is a fallacy. We competed with and arguably overcame a big Huddersfield pack. We had no problems making yards, we fronted up well down the middle, no issues there. But supported by the tripe that plays 1-7, particularly in the halfbacks, we won't be winning a game this season.

Very frustrating afternoon.

Can't argue with that assessment but with Solomona walking wounded & the ref in Hudds pocket it was also effectively 12 vs 14.

Thought the ref was OK, especially for allowing our 3rd try from a pass that was a yard forward.

Oh and the guy on the PA gets worse every week, embarrassing. Is he a drunk?

I'm getting increasingly annoyed at the lack of a game clock. I was sure it was in the rules a few seasons ago each ground had to have a working game clock in the stadium? We've had one this season, and it was the sky game.

You had a working game clock. At the back of the west stand

Pa guy was hilarious.

James has gone off for London......... Sorry Scott Moore !

Hilarious

Criticism seems a little harsh on the attacking issue. What I thought worked well in the first 40 was players taking the ball to the defensive line and passing late, thus creating space. The dreadful 2 minutes at the start of the 2nd half seemed to put the mockers on any repeat in the 2nd 40.

Same thoughts I've had since ther beginning of the season, we have lightweight forwards and need at least TWO (prefferably 3 or 4) big old ugly Props else we will continually just run outa steam!

Being half asleep at the start of the 2nd half didn't help either.

When we have an attacking scrum or ptb in the oppo 20 and all the backs are in 1 flat line you do wonder if they have a clue!

Where exactly? It would be good to know for future occasions. When I looked round all I could see was the scoreboard.

Frustration! Sums it up really . A pretty decent first half gave us something to build on, first score of the 2nd half was going to be decisive and not only did we let them get one, they got two!
Agree with Paddocks comment about our backs, all in a line, all static and all of them offering nothing in the way of attacking options!
Such a shame as I reckon with a bit more savvy we could probably have won today.

Lots of valid points here about the shortcomings, but what a spirit! Was the difference in the end just those crazy couple of minutes at the start of the second half?

As Jamie Peacock pointed out, you can't do much about the inexperience but you can applaud the spirit.

It's to the right of the scoreboard......trouble is you can barely see it as it needs to be higher...And Listy all those points you make in your first post on this topic...spot on...

The clock was the other side of the TV camera position from the scoreboard. It wasn't raised so most people would have had a restricted view. Why was the time on the scoreboard not used? It was stuck on 40 the whole game.