Quote: pmarrow "For all the armchair coaches claim the team selection was wrong and we are too light in an ageing pack (which we can't do anything about til next season but let's moan anyway) we only just fell short. Failure to handle two kicks (which was backs and not forwards) a knock on our own line (which again was a back) was ultimately our downfall.
Two uncharacteristic misses at goal by Sneyd and poor in field kicking (from youve guessed it the backs) was the reason we fell short by a margin. On another day it would or could have being oh so different.
That's not being happy to have a small loss on record or just a general happy clapped. It's being realistic and calling it how it is. I will more then anyone slate the club and players when it is warranted, not just after every loss.'"
sneyd's kicking wasn't great but he was put under a lot of pressure by warrington, something we failed to do with austin which is either a tactical error or players not following the coach's instructions. He was also invariably kicking from inside his own half because our backs were ineffective at gaining good ground out of our 20 and we didn't have enough size in the forwards to dominate the opposition. I started watching the game back today and the speed of their play the ball compared to ours was massively quicker as they were completely dominating the ruck.
We really should have won that game if we'd played anywhere near our potential but poor ball control and poor kicking put us under consistent pressure and didn't really give us a chance. The team who controlled the ball better yesterday were always likely to win and wire did that by some margin