Thought he was good on it tbh.
He was on about us - he also said that we'd be "competitive."

Just watched the game which I enjoyed very much ... we could well have come out of that with two points...
three comments though

1) our edge forwards had no penetration at all
2) having no interchange with 12 minutes left in the game is really poor
3) if one player needs a rocket up their it Kelepi Tanginoa.. didn’t have the ball in his hands for the whole time he was on the pitch in the first half... during that time Battye was chasing around looking for carries... Batchelor was involved in everything but Tanginoa kept sliding one or two players away from the potential carry... by the time he left the field his contribution had been negligible

And when the opposition are tired and we are one score from winning the game in the last 10 we should be able to introduce our most destructive runner ... see point 2

Oh and d) was there an invisible Trinity player on the pitch that Jowitt used as an obstruction... seemed to me it was a Hull player he doubled back behind to find the gap!

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Did you see the Batchelor no try? What happened there.

Spot on. Kalepi had the cleanest kit on the pitch. Honestly not sure why he didn’t seem to get stuck in.

The Jowitt where he wrong footed the Hull players was a strange decision from ref. Nobody in the stands had a clue what he’d blown for. There was no obstruction and it was just great footwork.

Batchelor was excellent along with Dave in middle. Batch should start next week for me.

Crowther was great in defence but really needs to find a pair of hands sometimes. I’m all for giving him a bit of time to find his feet at 13 but couldn’t help think Walker would have been handy when we were camped on the Hull line with some of his deft kicks and good hands.

Overall though, that was a very close game and there’s plenty of positives to take from that.

He knocked on... and he knew it...

Watched the game again and thought Arona was probably the most consistent and had biggest effort and Battye, when he started offloading had a greater effect.

I agree that sort of game management needs to be reviewed.

I also agree with previous posters that there was a lack of penetration from both starting back rowers.

It would be good to see Batchelor start alongside Tanginoa in the back row against Catalans with Whitbread starting at prop with Fifita…

Arona was best metre maker per run in the forwards and was massive in defense so he has to stay IMHO.

I also saw Miller call for 2 points early on but was told to run it by Poaching. So it's not as simple an on field fix we need.

We are possibly down up to six players plus Reece on Saturday so the choices may be limited. This is the current unfair nature of playing games in France early in the season.

Looks like we are down to our last 2 centres in Hall and Minns.

We may be missing a few due to vaccinations but we should still be able to put a team together to go and fight for 2 points.

This is exactly the point Mr Carter was trying to put across, do try and keep up.

He also came on very late in the first half, IIRC, seemed a strange time to put him on.

And went off about 15 minutes into the second half...was very under-whelmed with him on Sunday

Yes I know he did, at least you are able to retain some facts when you want to. He did hope that three of them would take the vaccination, I suppose you will be able to regale us if they have.

Very little point really, you seem to have the matter in hand.

I think you're wasting you're breath here, EW seems ro have disappeared