Tough watch last night, two very poor sides in which Wakey threatened to blow us away yet again. It shouldn’t have to be applauded that our players played for 80 minutes, but thats how low it feels like the standards have fallen with this team.

Injuries obviously haven’t help our situation by any means, but as I’ve mentioned previously, we seem to seriously suffer more then most in recent years, is it coincidence? Or is there more to it. I don’t know, but it has to be something to be looked at going forward.

Sadly another season is going to fizzle out just like most have since 2018. It’s horrible seeing our club like this, not making the play offs is unforgivable for a squad of this cap size.

The one positive for next season is the injection of pace we should hopefully see from the likes of Hoy/Trueman. It was painful watching how slow and to be honest awful our players are at passing a ball. McNamara got a bit of stick last night but there’s not much he can do at second receiver when it’s taken as long as it did for the ball to reach him. That’s where our problems lie in attack for me.

On a final note, this is a club absolutely desperate for some leadership on the pitch. I don’t look at any of those players and see them as someone the players look to for inspiration. Naturally it should be the likes of Taylor/Houghton/Gale, but I just don’t see it. A minichiello esc signing would be the perfect use of our final quota spot

Basically, you are determining success in the Challenge Cup is the barometer of Gentle and Radford's tenure..
Ignoring the fact,both had a win ratio in the League of below 50%..
How many of the deadwood players ,have played in the recent thrashings ?

Cup runs are nice but in the modern format means you've won about 3 games a season. League games are where the club makes its money and performances have been well below standard. We've finished above 6th twice since 2007 and even then we flopped in the playoffs when Old Trafford was in our sights.

Worth noting also that the video ref last night was Jack Smith. He was TJ last week against Saints and was on the side where Hopoate threw his forward pass.

Thought he was going to be a decent ref when he first appeared on the scene but he has become as bad as the rest?

Also doing chopping motions with his hands after the game conversing with James Clark and him nodding back to AP. Hodgson looked like someone who knew he was in for the chop, stood talking to Ellis, at the end of the game. Could have sworn his eyes were very moist, almost tears. Who knows.

The law is to stop players deliberately heading the ball forward and was introduced to stop players avoiding being tackled with the ball. In this instance the ball hit the head rather than the head hitting the ball and so was play on. The decision was correct.

not all bad news at least toulouse are down.

Slight positive

Big stats from Satae and Sao (who played 80 minutes).

Thought at the time Littem stood up well and backed up with his stats, I'd start him on the wing on Thursday.

Time to throw all the kids in and get them some vital minutes of experience. We don't need to see plodders like Johnstone again.

Think we will have to use everyone with the quick turn around.

Where does it state any of that? Nothing about deliberate or accidental in the law?

That’s like saying when an attacking player throws a pass and it hits the hand of the defender it should be play on if the defender falls on the ball. But we all know it is given as a knock on.

Same rules apply surely?