Our defence was a real worry last night every time the Ausise Frogs got anywhere near our 25 they scored with ease.
I was surprised when the Aussie Frogs came onto the pitch how much bigger and athletic they seemed than us, they looked like a SL side.
I would honestly say that was probably the most professional performance I have seen from a team in this division this season.

The Attitude of the Widnes players stank in the first half last night, Toulouse ran harder and tackled stronger and we were pathetic in every area. The comeback in the second half was noted but it still leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Not good enough.

What a complete crock of !!!!
At one point we had something like 10 squad players unavailable and the situation is only marginally better now with some players playing through the pain barrier at the moment.

The only solution would be to have a larger squad and when you are trying to stick to a cap of £300k that is nigh on impossible.

Agreed, i would like to see another championship squad cope with 10 missing.

VM,

I don't really disagree with you but there are a number of factors that went into that display... the implosion happened when our two senior players went off the pitch at the same time. Smith and Gannon go off and the rout began. It wasn't until these players came back on that we looked anything like ourselves again. We have three 'leaders' Smith, Gannon and Webster... last night for 30 - 40 minutes none of these guys were on the pitch... ordinarily it might not have mattered too much but Wynn had an exceptional game last night.
There are also a number of players who are playing with knocks and injuries.. I know Houghton (hand), Koe Love (shoulder) and Coyle (hand) are still some way short of fitness but have stepped up to offer themselves for selection.

I'm surprised by the overreaction on here...
Toulouse performed very very well last night and a lot of teams would have struggled against them. They were quick and aggressive in attack, their kicking game was immaculate and constantly put us under pressure and they slowed the ptb down when defending and defended well as a unit. It didn't help that there were so many individual errors from our side and we were undone to an extent by some sloppy play.. I think this will be a one match blip and we won't be so complacent again.
I certainly don't think it was as bad as some are making out.

I'd agree with that... they looked very good indeed.

I would go along with that mate, Webster is back in training so will probably make a show next week, we have Heckenberg to come in and having both of them fit and ready will be a huge bonus. Gerrard can then move back to loose forward and we will start functioning as a team again.

Personally I think that would make a huge difference. We are really struggling at full back and Webbo is a massive organiser for us. Thacks is good but he can't do it all by himself (although he's having a bloddy good go of it).

Gerrard is next to no use in the SO position... he just doesn't have the nouse or the guile. Plus... At the moment we have a bit of an issue on the 20 minute mark when Smith and Gannon are rotated off. We lose our two on-field leaders. With James playing the full 80 minutes we have at least one old head out there for the full match directing things.

Plus I think Ford will lend himself to the attack quite well.. pre-season he linked up well and turned up on quite a few occasions in the line just when we needed that extra man.

If Allen can get back fit too I think we will look in good shape again.

We had six missing and caned them 50-6

Ive got to say it was the worst we played so far this season, didn;t seem like anyone wanted to play in the first half, Gardner is awful drops to many balls and to drop it falling over the line is a sin, can;t wait to have dean gaskell back.
Toulouse played well last night did the basics right and had a good kicking game, hope for a few more players being brought in this week as the forwards did seem to struggle aswell.

You had conceeded shed loads of points before yesterdays game though hadn't you? Even in victory. So it shouldn't come as that much of a suprise. Cullen can't seem to coach defence particularly goal line defence. Teams finding it far too easy to score when attacking the line was a big problem for Warrington under Cullen also.

Scoring tries is never a problem though. But saying you score 30, we'll score 32 will only get you so far.

Completely disagree about Gardner.. so far he has been very good. He normally takes high balls very well but it is always more difficult when the on-rushing player can jump from a run compared to a jump when you are standing still. Especially when the kicker is having as good a game as Wynn was last night.

Personally I think reaction or over-reaction is because of Toulouse previous results. Before they played us their results were pretty awful and on that form they looked like they'd be a bottom 2 or 3 side. I don't know what the handicap was but everyone I knew was expecting a 20-30+ win. For us to be 30 points down to any team in this division is unforgivable and just not good enough. They did surprise me how well they played, but you don't know how much of that was taking advantage of our mistakes and lack of determination.

Personally I think we've been crap all season. We've been playing poor for 60 minutes and then coming back at the end. Your Leeds, Saints etc don't do that, they steamroller teams off the pitch and just keep going. In games we've been into the 2nd half and we've been behind at Batley, Sheffield, Barrow, Toulouse, Halifax and Dewsbury. Think the only teams we've beaten comfortably have been Wigan St Judes, Gateshead, Swinton, Keighley and lastly Whitehaven. Every other game has been a struggle and possibly only won through sheer will and determination. Not a lot of skill or professional displays going on. IMO we need some experience and get the likes of Strong and Yates out of the team - easy said than done based on our luck with injuries.