I agree with you on both counts. Plenty of effort despite the lads clearly being fatigued from Friday. Saints were bigger and faster - we need to get our recruitment right in the next 3 years to improve the size and power of the team. Shorter term we looked better when we moved the ball and against many other teams we would have done enough today. Loads to work on but Friday was nowhere near as bad as the overreaction of some and today there were positives.

Must admit that, apart from us dropping the ball far too often, the radio coverage also sounded like we had improved over Friday's performance.

Here's hoping we can take some confidence from today and build on it.

It sounds encouraging but unless this performance is backed up with further improvement on Friday against Wakefield it will count for nothing. We need to win and stop the slide asap.

Its the kicking game which needs improving as yet again we giving Saints good field position off of the back of our poor kicking game.

Seems odd that we went away from the tactic Sharp always employed against Saints of kicking it dead which worked really well i thought.

Thought Washbrook made a massive difference today as he is such a smart footballer plus a running and passing threat which we lack when Radford starts at 13.

The off the ball running for the Calderwood and G.Horne try was very good but its a shame we had to go behind by so many points before we start actually spreading the ball out.

If you compared our sets from the first half when we were in Saints 20 to the sets in the second half it would look like a entirely different side.

Impressed with Washy today. He's had a stop-start beginning to the season, but looked more like it today.

I was impressed with Washy too but I still think the radio over hyped us.

alot of the time the poor kicks are because we are not making enough ground when we have ball in hand. Making the 30m line or a little over it doesnt give you much of a chance to get a good kick away

Hallellujah - someone whop understands. Oh, hang on, somebody will be telling us Brough could kick further - why did we get rid of him?

im not excusing his other bad kicks tho lol

Washy has been a massive miss for us this season, to have him and Whiting back is excellent news. Despite all the doom and gloom I don't think we are that far off being a good side and we could easily finish in the top four.

Very true.

Its always the same though, we only ever start playing some decent rugby when the game looks to be gone or we are chasing it and the players think "might as well go for it now".

Agree Paul, Whiting is a big plus and Washy can make breaks and put people through gaps and help out Thorman and Horney.