One of the problems with the defence seems to be the spacing between defenders.For me we seem to get too many players too close together in the middle of the pitch leaving us just the winger and centre to mark 4 players.Luke George saved us a couple of tries yesterday when he came in quickly to stop the ball getting to a 2 man overlap.

basically ther team that do it have the SO about 5 yards further back than we do and the rest of the backs flatter, gives SO time to assess the defence and defence time to be put in 2 or 3 minds, means also attack is naturally on the move quicker than the defence and its easier to maintain spead than to pick it up, and its not new Shaun edwards was a master at it, Nigel wright best ive seen do it at wakey.

I agree and i thought that Luke George had a good game yesterday saving a couple of trys and also scoring a very good one.

Agree with the last few posts about the technical side of how to combat the problem/create the problem for other teams.

What I did notice crucially yesterday was Mathers was involved in their attack a lot more than Blaymire was for us. Full back attacking play now is crucial if you look at the top sides, Tomkins, Wellens, Webb, Hodgson, etc.. just in SL. With the depth of full backs to choose from, we should be able to get someone who can become part of a pivotal attack.

Im afraid Kear got it all wrong yesterday. Millard on the bench at the expense of a mariano/howarth, Lee at lock, Vievers on the wing, Spiers on the bench we all mistakes. We ain't got a great squad but he managed to use what we have extremeley poorly.

Think Millard was on bench cos of move to Catalans,dont want him injured then stuck with him.If he was in team then he should have been centre with veivers fb,blaymire dropped,murphy on wing and mariano or howarth on bench.

So should everyone be fit, what would be your ideal team be.

Morrison should have been at lock with Mariano 2nd row. Lee as interchange hooker off the bench. He was knackared when he took over from Rinaldi and we lost our spark. Vievers looked like a fish out of water on the wing, he should be at fullback. Blaymire doesn't offer enough going forward. Ideally Gledhill would be fit to be the fourth prop but until he is or we strengthern then Hendo should do the job. Spiers doesn't look ready yet. Millard either starts or doesn't play. Howarth should have been on the bench.

Personaly thought Hyde was non-existent.

Agreed but he isnt good enough to play at half back in SL, so that was kears fault.

Lee could have gone into the halves or Howarth could have played stand off.

There does seem to be a trend in having lots of small men in the 17 which baffles me.

We used to have Latu, Obst, Drew, Brough, Rooney

Now we have, Obst, Lee, Rinaldi, Hyde, with Smith & Jeffries to come in at some stage.

If we go down lets get jd back as coach to inject some passion and pride.

If we got nobby we wouldnt have to pay his wages cos rl would do it,so more money for players.

JD & MORRO? The new dream team!