Agreed, when you think about it we have nothing going for us at all at the minute do we?!

There may be trouble ahead! Still 32 degrees here in Canet. Recovery will be an issue for the game v Cas and they will come out of the blocks fast and try to blow us away. Shame we cannot conjure a few fresh bodies other than MCB.

Can't see recovery as been a major issue for next week ,we're talking top athletes here not a team from down the pub .
Our major issues are shoring up our defences, running onto the ball at pace ,giving away penalties and stopping the offloads ,all basics of the game but for some unknown reason it either doesn't sink in or is not coached in the first place .Get these basics right and we will become a competitive team who won't be the fall guys for every team supposedly targeting us as a win .

Not sure how fresh MCB will be given he is still playing sevens rugby in the Cayman Islands!

Top athletes ? Sorry for having an opinion, should have known better.

I agree 100% FIL. Spot on. BJB is the biggest culprit. All those in the crowd can see it, so why can't those that matter?

I’ve tried to explain this on numerous occasions, edge defence starts at marker and pressure on the attack ripples from marker out toward the wing as the ball travels through the attack out toward the edges.

The reason edge defence gets caught with 2 or 3 Vs 1 is because defenders on the inside don’t push out as the ball travels out. That then forces the edge defence to jam in trying to kill the overlap before it happens or to position themselves between the opposition winger and centre (no mans land). If the ball bypasses the winger via clever passing then it looks like the edge has failed but most often it’s the middle that caused it.

There are other skills that can help like edges jamming in as a unit or folding as a unit to avoid committing too early but they’re all symptoms of bad, lazy or poor decisions made by the middle.

Chester and Co seem to have zero clue how to coach edge defence - YES but they can’t coach defence - PERIOD!

Bout time they gave someone else a go on that right wing. Lets see if we can blame the other 12 players then.

Wasn’t a dig Manuel ,but these players have the best of everything these days and all we ask for is 80 mins out of them and they couldn’t be d doing that .Good job their not race horses or it would’ve been the knackers yard for the lot of em after that showing .

Just hearing Bradford were playing at Toulouse in near 40c heat and had a cracker of a game to come away with a win.Tells you all you need to know .

Thanks for the technical insight Avenger...it makes you wonder whether the Coaches actually watch any other matches to try and work out why we are so poor at edge defence and what needs to be done to rectify the problem, 'cos it sure ain't rocket science !!
Are we taking bets on Eden getting a hat-trick on Friday night ??

A hat-trick is just wishful thinking. He'll probably score 4.

Based on how Castleford played against Leeds, it's going to be a dog fight IMO but regrettably one we're probably not going to be up for...

well for me its an opportunity for the players to dig deep and for the supporters to view the effort and access what should be a 100% improvement . If its not it will show just how committed the players are and they will deserve all the flack they get.

I don't see any kind of improvements in any department. We are not coached and if we are why persist with under performing individuals. Positional changes needed asap.