Quote: Itchy Arsenal "Geoff I have no problem in losing with a depleted side but the lack of urgency, pace, basic skills and zero and I mean zero attacking options should alarm me but now I just accept that we are an exceptionally poor outfit because that is what we are.
We could very easily be where Huddersfield are. In fact I'd say we are the worst performing team after HKR I have seen this year.
I accept the injuries but can't accept that Powell who was allegedly a half back can't or won't kick and he can't pass a ball into someone's bread basket on a half decent basis.
I can't accept Isa as a player. He ain't a forward in the memory of man and has still to make one and I mean one break this season. What the hell did we sign him for?
I can't accept that Burke & Sutton as a young thrusting professionals can just trundle in and hardly make any ground and seem totally incapable of doing more than 15 minute stints. These are supposedly our young guns who want a career in RL but do not show a tad of ability or a willingness to grab the game by the scruff of the neck. Basically they play without balls. I want young bucks ripping into to teams our lot are timid and lack raw aggression that SW allegedly drums into them.
I can't accept that Tierney has a position of any sort. What does he do well? He has no apparent pace, can't catch a high ball and seems totally detached from all aspects of the game.
You mention 6 forwards missing the problem is that we will always have players missing due to injury and add the fact that SOL will never be a regular and MM can't play 80 minutes and has done nothing for over 2 seasons therefore, some of the lads who were on the pitch last night are effectively regulars.
Without Bateman we are a bottom 4 team without any shadow of a doubt in my eyes and even when some players get back we are most definitely not a top 4 team. I can go with that if I saw some semblance of green shoots I really could go with that but I just see numbingly boring, pedestrian and joyless rugby.
I'm not overreacting to last nights defeat because it was obvious we were never going to win and I can cope with that what I struggle with is that people assume it will get better when last season showed us we are a poor rugby team and I've seen or heard nothing that demonstrates we will improve.
Dewsbury will give a good account next and unless our forwards grow a pair they will be knocked about like rag dolls and another embarrassing performance is on the cards'"
So Basically 5 players, only one of whom would be in the 17 possibly if we had a full team out (And bear in mind most people would go with MM for 80 then probably none) are not good enough?
But we can't use that as a reasoning why were not flying?
Were not a Top 4 team even with 7/8 players back yet
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Warrington Wolves
13 10 0 3 391 210 20
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Catalans Dragons
12 9 0 3 356 248 18
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Wigan Warriors
13 9 0 4 248 273 18
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Hull FC
12 8 0 4 323 265 16
We are currently a Top 4 team without them even though you say were a bottom 4 side?
I'm not saying by any means that everything in the garden is rosy, but surely we can see that when we have to play so many youngsters, squad players at once it's no surprise that we can't beat EVERY team and we are going to get Blips.
That's because they are young players, That's because they are squad players and that's why they aren't the Big Earners.
9 wins from 13 has been a massive effort from those squad and young players mixed in with 5/6 1st teamers each week - I'd rather praise them than criticise them for it.
Possibly 7 players (Maybe even 8? ) last night would not make my 1st 17
Total count of squad numbers last night
Wire = 197
Wigan = 278
Get our 1-5-8-9-10-11-12-13 back (And I appreciate MM may not get back this year) and I'm confident we are a Top 2/3 side maybe even good enough to win it - I'll judge them when we get a big proportion of them back and hopefully in the next 2/3 weeks that will happen.