Spine is a problem and it looks like the whole spine will be changed next season, but I'm more worried about fitness and tactics than the spine.

He shouldn't be but he will be selected again on Friday, especially if Fash & Mitch do pick up bans.

The defensive “efforts” look even worse watching the highlights.

You must have a masochistic streak a mile wide to want to watch any of that again!

Nobody should be getting beaten on their outside for pace by Hurrell. LMS sidestepping the fullback to score was another lowlight.

Especially on a Monday morning!

I put the 1980 final on instead.

Some of the worse attempts were by people who we’ve renewed (Wynne), or looking to renew (Lovodua).

So much for clearing the squad out

There were several points as well where most of our forwards were walking back slowly to get into our line, it looked like there was nobody available to run the ball up or really obvious who would be taking the drive up and therefore incredibly easy for saints to defend against.

You’ve gone too far now!

You could just about list every player, Houghton, Connor, Longstaff and Satae make some shocking defence decisions and attempts, if you analysed every try I'm sure you could pick out every player.

It feels like when it starts to go wrong everyone loses faith in the men either side so they're caught in 2 minds rather than focusing on their job and trusting the others to do theirs.

Quite agree Dave but despite Hodgson being in the job nearly 2 years I have yet to see any real hard tangible evidence we have any of the things in your post I've put in bold.

On the field we are an absolute shambles and it beggars belief what they actually work on in training as watching the games its worse than watching a group of kids that have never played the game.
I don't buy Hodgsons excuse of fatigue either as is we are that fatigued before and just after halftime then there is something seriously wrong.

Its just no longer a surprise when the team serves up shambolic performances and teams must rub their hands at the prospect of facing us as we are just so predictable.

Hodgson for me is just not the right man for the job, you only have to look at Leeds to see the difference Rohan Smith (who is also an inexperienced head coach) has made to the way Leeds play in his short time at the club since replacing Agar with the same group of players.

The defeats are one thing but it is the manner of the defeats that are just inexcusable and indefensible and typical of the usual mid season nose dive we have seen for far too long now.

wonder how rovers will fare against the cheats on friday?

Bet they won’t give up like our lazy lot