Quote: Pepe "I don't think we were out played. I think we just made made it harder for ourselves with poor tackling, discipline and silly handling errors. If you are constantly gifting possession and field position to the opposition while tackling like girls, as we did yesterday, you're going to struggle against anyone.
We're still looking poor in the pack, although Pickersgill and Varkulis looked a lot better than usual. With Hall here and Toa fit again, Varks can stay in the pack. Perhaps we can now drop Doran, with Varkulis, Banister, Fletcher and Morrison in contention for a back row place with Patterson likely to be back at loose soon. Doran is now becoming a major liability. Ostick was nearly as bad though.'"
I'd agree, the handling errors and discipline are costing us dear. They almost certainly cost us the game last week and could have cost us the game this week. I actually thought we tackled quite well early on. We scored our 2nd try in the 8th minute and they didn't score their 1st until the 33rd. In the 25 minute gap in between those tries, it was mainly York attacking our line which we defended sucessfully. Obviously with the constant wave of attack after attack, we were going to conceed eventually. We did start to drop of tackles towards the end of the 1st half, but I suppose it was bound to happen with the amount of tackling by us and off-loading by them.
Its quite simple really, you can't win the game without the ball and the errors and discipline are 2 things that have been costing us all season.
