Trojan Horse:
I don’t think we run out of bodies and we were right in that till around 50 minutes.
What let us down in that game was two things for me and it wasn’t the lack of forwards at all.
1. The discipline and errors. That second half we continually squandered possession in the kr half and turned over cheap ball. That led to inviting KR on our line way more than needed.
2. The spine shuffle half time with moving positions. That affected our attack a lot and defence on the left was left short more than a few times.
Honestly though I thought Lino was excellent last week but this week he cost us dearly with stray passing, kicking out on full etc. it led to a number of pressure sets on our line. He will I’m sure come back strong.
I thought we gifted KR that game more than them taking it. We continually invited them onto our line and it told a few times on the edges.
All those things are exacerbated by not having regular middles.Even in the first half we were under pressure as we couldn't get any field position. It was just that we were good enough with the ball to score when we got chances.
Peters said post match that his tactic in second half was to rush our half backs to cut out our best plays. It worked and we had to push passes and hold down which cost us.
Rovers were just better than us. We didn't have enough forwards to keep the pressure on.