Quote: SirStan "I deserved that.'"
Fair enough - forget about it.
As far as the game went, the absence of a few experienced forwards shouldn't result in the complete absence of any attacking threat what-so-ever.
After watching the game back after I got in, Cullen said a couple of times that Keeting and Burns spent a hell of a lot of time trying to organise our young forwards but they were hardly any dummy runners or players hitting holes and we struggled. The responsibility for this lies with the coaching staff - CS has had the time and resources to deliver so now he has to come up with the goods or face the consequences.
You could tell Welham is starting to feel the pressure with his reaction to the chicken wing (that Finn didn't actually follow through with) but more notably his idiotic head-butt whilst we had the ball FFS. His crisis of confidence is forcing him to make even worse decisions than he does normally.
If Gleeson is back next week then he needs to go straight in to right centre and move Salter over to the left (Welham will probably be suspended anyway).
Lovegrove had a decent game last week but him and Welham were targeted as a pair on that left edge and they will continue to be until there's some personnel changes there. We're a second-rower light IMO and I think it may be worth trying to get Ferguson in if the Bulls go bust.
The only real positive was Caro's performance - he was our best player. I also thought Cockayne tried his best to take some responsibility of being a more experienced player by trying to inject some energy with his dummy-half runs but it's difficult to have a big influence on the game playing on a wing. I thought Larroyer played well too.
