Think the residents of ealing would not agree that it's awful.
So if it was free you still wouldn't come listy?
For thd marketing and the thread discussion what woukd tempt you back?

Standard of rugby so far has not been too bad at home. The game against kr was actually one of the best live games I have watched in a fair while.

Api named in the 19, wonder if he is going to get a run out

It was competitive,with evenly matched teams and the result could have gone either way - right til the end. Overall good entertainment.
But it wasn't a great standard game by a long way - far too many errors from both sides, many of ours were unforced and ultimately cost us the two points.
The big crowd added to the atmos but I don't think a similar type of game against a team that brings a dozen or two in support will feel quite the same.

Think yr being harsh Rob. No game is error free. In my opinion and from where I was stood it was an excellent game of Rugby League, am talking about the game not the atmosphere.

Atmosphere adds to the game for sure, players get lifted by it.
We bombed several good chances especially in the first half. KR made several mistakes in the 2nd half which let us back in.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the game - hadn't seen one in the flesh since the disappointing international at Stratford, but it was a good Championship game, that's all. Most SL games will be a lot better.

Are we all looking foreward to this evening, will be interesting to see how good the lights are, let's hope it's a good game!

Reference the KR game, you could take the other view re the errors as being forced errors from good defence rather than poor play.
As for bombed chances!
For us I think we have been guilty of pushing things a pass too far rather than taking the tackle and building pressure, we think everytime we get near the line we have to put points on the board

Dreadful performance to date! 06-18 down....

Soundly beaten by a better side! Given a lesson in fast flowing rugby.
If there are any positives, Mark Loanne looked good, Dixon seems to be getting his mojo back.

*Ioane

Listening on the radio and following the Twitter feed, Dixon seemed to make numerous errors.

Giving away penalties and constantly dropping the ball, especially in the opposition 20, seem to be a reoccurring theme.

Thats halfway to ensuring my Toulouse trip is safe. Just need Toulouse to lose. [ This stuff writes itself. ]

I always get marks name wrong. As for Dixon well from someone who was at the game I didn't say he was error free I said he seemed to be getting his mojo back. Not afraid to take on the line, and a really good defensive stint with a couple of big hits. Only dropped ball of note was a bombed try, poor take or poor pass? Dont know I was too far away

Those two tries from the first two Toronto attacking sets knocked the Stuffing out of the squad, put us on catch up rugby straight off. The worry was the try that was mirrored in the second half, coming from the centre position diagonal
Run through a massive hole to score by the sticks, second half one was on the last play and came from a nothing position. That's poor communication in defence someone coming out of the flat line defence.
Players need to get wise to the moving off the mark issue as well, we gave a stupid one away on our 30 just daft.

Too much dropped ball again as well.

Have to concede though, Toronto were well drilled and pacy, noticeable was speed of the ptb, they would not look out of place in the championship.
At least the RFL have there story for the next round.

Slow sloppy play the balls, panicky, often not clear what we are meant to be doing, slow line speed in defence, minimal grunt up front. Not sure we are clicking as a team on occasions. However Barthau's kicking was generally good. Continuation of Halifax game really. Wasn't expecting us to do anything really as Cup isn't our priority but quite a few things that really do need to be worked on.

We are missing both our experienced hookers while Battye and Spencer are big losses in setting platform. However the expectation is for others to step up and they haven't filled that gap yet.