We bet saints without big dave with a real gritty performance ,then roll over the next week without so much as a whimper.Against cas the effort was there for all to see ,but the attack was all disjointed and our last tackle options were awful apart from our try and the disallowed one .

Things that I think we got wrong yesterday:
1) Flat line of attack
2) Failure to complete sets of six tackles
3) None creative half back
4) Failure to create overlaps for our wingers
5) Forwards standing still when receiving ball instead of running on to it
6) No one with captaincy skills
7) Not going for the two points when on offer


No one breaking the line in attack
9) Slow play the balls
10) Not varying the kick offs

And that is why we aren't winning games, simple.

So where does the fault lie, is it with the players for not executing the coaches orders, or is it the coach who isn’t giving these orders in the first place. We see games from Wakefield of sheer brilliance, a glimpse of what the player can do when it all drops into place. But all too often we see at best a workmanlike but average team. Consistency is what ever coach strives for in their players, unfortunately we fall short too many times .

On me own again but I thought Pauli Pauli went well, no way he should have played the full 80 though.

No you're not, Pauli did go well, I dunno what the crit for him is all about tbh.
Dunno about mom but he did his bit in a clunky team.




You read that list and wonder why we aren't getting blown off the park.
Surely that is a 40+ point hammering, more likely its a slight exaggeration.
I dunno, there wasn't really much between the sides, definitely not 20 points anyway.
The stats may say different but watching it back its just little bits and pieces here and there that accumulate, a compound of mistakes/poor reffing/end of sets/game management.
It doesn't make us poor, it just means we aren't giving ourselves the opportunity to win.
As always the criticism here is ridiculously harsh, I know its a forum populated by extremists but who actually thought we'd go to Cas and win, who has won at Cas this season ?
Its frustrating I know, frustrating because we know this team can go to Cas and win.
Despite the obvious effort, clearly it just isn't coming together for us atm.

Look at the metres made in league express as a team we made less than 900! Our half back pairing who are more runners than play makers made 29m between em so clearly not playing to their strengths

Horrendous stats and imo shows we lack punch in the forwards without big Dave

I agree with that bit mate, you only conceded 3 tries, not much to rectify in defence. Its the attack that seemed woeful on Friday night. It will be interesting to see the stats for metres made by the respective forwards. Watts, Millington and Moors all seemed to drive on for another 10 meters after the initial contact and landed on their front with a subsequent quick PTB. Where as wakey's forwards seemed to almost give themselves up on contact, Pauli being the exception

Watts did over 180m and McMeeken and Sene Lafao over 120m. Pauli was our best forward and managed 89m some of the others had pitiful numbers

And Pauli played all 80 mins

Can't argue with that at all.
But I think we to be careful we don't blame the forwards in isolation, its a team thing, the forwards need direction, they need a plan and somebody to implement it.
There's nothing wrong with our pack, they're as good as anybody's, but there's a lack of organization which ends up with drives being compromised before they've started, lost collision = no platform, no momentum = flat lines 5 and a kick without troubling the opposition.
Can't leave it to the backs to pull something daft out the hat to get us on the front foot, but that's what it is atm.

Our forwards are stood when receiving the ball most of the time,not running onto the ball .They then get tackled before building any momentum up ,which ends up putting the team on the back foot all too often this season .