Very happy. I was excited seeing this team being assembled and frankly wasn't too worried about shipping points in the early games. We were bound to.
There's some real steel in our defence and a willingness for the guys to share the load.
It's unfortunate that injuries / suspensions seem to be making our pack lack depth, but everyone gets injuries.

I listened to Jon Wells talking about gelling a new team last week and he stated that attack is a lot easier to gel that defence. That he said takes a lot more time on the training ground and a lot more understanding as its harder to drill.

As no expert I always assumed the other way around but it does seem to be coming to fruition with us. I like most despaired after the Wakey debacle, the defence looked like it had gone backwards and even 1st half v cats looked abysmal. Shows what I know, now this might all be a flash in the pan but at last(prob for 2 or 3 seasons) I'm looking forwards to watching us play.

Rovers are currently 3 points better off than from the equivalent fixtures last season.

That will remain the case even if we lose all of the next 3 SL games so from that perspective anything we get will be an improvement.

Very tough run of games but we seem to be competitive every week right now so anything is possible.

In comparison to last year, we are a better team with better players and the overall gap between some of the SL teams has definitely narrowed.
That said, to use a well worn record this year, there is no easy fixture in SL anymore which is a good thing, so we should take nothing for granted.

We had an easy fixture last Thursday/

I did say some of the teams and that ain't one of them.