We've certainly lost our intensity, and silly errors are creeping in a dumb decisions again.

yea just remembered that our last 4 matches of the season are against the bottom 4, not a good start

Two Talanoa mistakes late in the game cost us the points tonight.
The worrying thing for me is we struggled to make metres tonight whereas leeds made easy metres putting a lot of pressure on our defence.
We are back to last years style of play with no creativity in the opposition 20,relying on line bashing and Snyed kicking on the last tackle.

Injuries wil begin to creep in when a club begins to play poorly. It wasn't me boss I've got an injury. Funny when we were flying how we stayed injury free.

cant argue there Bonaire

fook me, people acting like we've just been relegated to league 1 on facebook.

watts has done a hamstring, green was a minor knock and should be ok for next week. too early for the others

Our minds are 100% on CC semi final. Simple as that.
We don't have the big team mentality yet where we believe it's normal to make CC semi finals and still play like a top of the table team.

On a big picture basis we need to WIN a trophy and that will help the team believe we deserve to be at the top.

I want the CC ten times more than the hub cap or GF trophy but I also want Melbourne Storm LOL

Our minds are 100% on CC semi final. Simple as that.
We don't have the big team mentality yet where we believe it's normal to make CC semi finals and still play like a top of the table team.

On a big picture basis we need to WIN a trophy and that will help the team believe we deserve to be at the top.

I want the CC ten times more than the hub cap or GF trophy but I also want Melbourne Storm LOL

Anybody but Wigan and you have saved your worst till last.
Watched Hull two consecutive times on the TV expected good stuff from the heir apparents ... because the game NEEDS new winners and some of your guys need to take a good look at themselves.
Hara Kiri

i hope you can bounce back in the cup.

Well it shouldn't and that would be down to the coach if our focus is other than on the next match and I don't believe that is the case, just that we aren't mentally prepared well enough.
This 'big team' mentality is just guff, I've watched plenty of times as 'big teams' or great individual athletes whom have imploded because mentally they weren't prepared.
Yes the mentality comes from within to a degree but it's predominantly down to the coaches and one would hope sports pschologists just as all professional outfits do, players are just tools. It's the same in a family group, your parents teach you about how to deal with scenarios, sportspersons are no different at all.
You prepare them to act out your plan, you instill in them everything you want along with the right attitude/mental fortitude and target those players that are more experienced and/or leaders to help you as the coach on the field. We lacked leaders tonight, Ellis is always a big miss and losing Mini too compounded that.

We are clearly a confidence team more than most in this league and it has nothing to do with 'believing' in how we derserve to be at the top or a top team, that's complete rubbish. It's about being mentally focussed enough to carry on acting out the plan that you've trained for when under duress, carry on targetting your mini goals in each given period of time etc.
A game is a game is a game is a game, labelling it as 'x' and giving it more importance than any other has negative consequences, a semi final, a final should be no different to the first game of the season, trying to say having a big team mentality just because you have been to a final before (or half a dozen finals) doesn't equate to not cracking under the pressure/performing well because invariably that isn't how we deal with things.
Ask any of the top sports coaches/sports psychologists.

Mahe Fonua, I just dont get it.

annoying that he had an actual centre stood on his outside all night.

He is just a liability in my eyes. Makes too many knock ons and gives a fair few penalties away. I wouldnt blame him for tonight but struggle to see what he brings to the side.

A game is a game is a game is a game, labelling it as 'x' and giving it more importance than any other has negative consequences, a semi final, a final should be no different to the first game of the season, trying to say having a big team mentality just because you have been to a final before (or half a dozen finals) doesn't equate to not cracking under the pressure/performing well because invariably that isn't how we deal with things.
Ask any of the top sports coaches/sports psychologists.'"