Quote: bonaire "I was confident of turning Saints over especially if we had beaten Leigh which given the fact that we gifted them their tries from our errors and indiscipline we should have done.
The problem was plain to see that when we lost Clifford we has no direction and when we did put some pressure on Leigh in their 20 we were clueless.
One man doesnt usually make a team but unfortunately for us Clifford does therefore i cant see us getting anywhere near Saints now and like Leigh they will target our right edge.
See little point of playing McNamara as he is just catch and pass,so i would play Sutcliffe at 6 as he offers a more of a running threat and is a better defender.
Satae back will help in the forwards but this continued use of using four lightweight forwards is killing us a go forward team
Out of Lane and Cator i would play Cator but they are both guily of repeated 6 agains.
Dwyer is a total liability and if we need to carry two nines then surely its time to give Balmforth a run or use Cator off the bench as the second nine and move Lane to 13.
Was really looking forward to this game but a defeat means the season is over and worse still we will have all those red and whits on here gloating about their big win over York'"
I’m not sure we can say we are a one man team just yet, granted we missed his skills he went off but who wouldn’t?
Think it’s difficult when you’re set up and trained all week to carry out a game plan but then you lose such a key player particularly when that player is the organiser.
I imagine without him the work in training this will take that in to account and likely Trueman will be the organiser. Let’s see how we go against St’s after they’ve had time to work on a game plan without Clifford.
Agree re Dwyer as he more often than not takes the wrong option or goes the wrong side when we have men over. As he’s leaving and IF Balmforth is staying then I’d like to see TS use Balmforth instead.
