I don’t get the Grix knocking he’s a class player and we’ve missed him this season.

Up the Trin

That's not my point. Grix was awful in the Super 8's last year, yet played 6 matches and Jowitt only one (Cas away). A lot of people kept saying Grix deserves to make up for his mistakes game by game, I think Jowitt deserves the same courtesy no?

No we have not.

Well sport is all about opinions, I like Grix and thought we played better last season, with Grix in the team.

Up the Trin

Yes I do agree with that.
I've liked him at full back and Grix days are numbered so I'd favour Max but he has had two games with errors now. The sin binning at Hull would have cost us against a better team.

In terms of missing Grix (on the other post)...... We have definitely missed him in attack. I think we'd have scored some of those early chances yesterday with him.
....... but equally we may not have been as steady at the back.

I agree Grix's days are numbered. Jowitt will grow with experience and I would like to see him get that in the remainder of the 8s against the best teams in the comp.

I'd be disappointed to Jowitt is dropped off the back of last night but Chester has been pretty quick to haul players out this year for not being up to scratch - Johnstone, Pauli, Horo are three.

Bit of an over reaction to last night going on. Saints are the best team in the competition and were faster into defence and ran harder with the ball in hand. They'd done their homework and did a job on us.

Are you by any chance related to RTHICK95 from Eastmoor?

The mistakes from trying something I can take - that can happen to anyone, and the only way to avoid mistakes is to not do owt; the defensive ones are a bit harder to swallow, but all you can hope is that he watches the video, listens to his coaches, and learns as he goes.

Personally, I wouldn't drop him - I'd keep him for the remainder of the 8's so he can get a real opportunity to learn on the job; he's got massive potential, it just needs to come together.

Maybe we should have a topic called "This week's scapegoat is........".

He made some mistakes, he wasn't the only one.

I couldn't sit through the recording when I got home so I may be wrong but:

I thought the game changing moment was when Miller tried one sidestep too many instead of putting in a grubber or even a pass. He got ankle tapped and we had to go into headless chicken mode for about 3 passes until Huby was the 1st to get composed and try his own grubber. It, unfortunately, went dead and Saints got 7 tackles, went up field and scored their 1st try. The seal was broken.

The silly short offload in our own half to Pauli Pauli killed our come back.

Look forward to next game now.

That said, if it had found the hands and he'd crashed over, we'd be singing his name on the terraces.

I get the frustration, but short of playing 5 drives and a kick, we have to accept that with entertaining rugby, comes some inevitable mistakes; Saints made plenty too, it's just frustrating when several happen in the same game, and they *appear* to have caused a loss.

Hopefully with a time, a settled squad and another preseason together we'll see a reduction in these errors. Only really highlighted as some were jumping on PP's back about it. Fine line between hero and zero in sport sometimes.

Great young player, a great kid and Jow to his friends