Some pretty poor excuses being made - referee, linesman, weather, good Hull KR side.
All complete nonsense.
We should be winning that game. That was a very average HKR side last night.
Our big pack should have dominated theirs last night, but the reverse happened.
This passive, slow, laboured defence is giving the opposition momentum and territory and that meant that Abdul was in a position to put up an attacking kick every time and put us under pressure.
How many times were we in that position for Austin to do the same?
The game was played in our half.
The opposition make 70 metres a set, we make 30.
And our kicker is under pressure every time, the oppositions isn’t.
Recipe for defeat most of the time.
I think we’re getting a sense of where we are.
We’ll win odd games and then lose 2 or 3.
We’ll probably finish 7th or 8th.
We’ve pretty much played one, maybe two decent halves of rugby in 7 games, which is a reality check.
I’m not one in the ‘Smith Out’ corner, but the knives are out and the pressure will build.
On the face of it, I can take a 20-12 defeat to HKR, but the performance and ’tactics’ were dreadful.
That’s down to the coach.
He’s supposedly got a reputation of developing younger players, but doesn’t seem to fancy some of our highly rated ones like Johnson and Tindall (coupled with letting Edwards go).
Surely, they can’t be any worse than some of what we’re seeing.
On paper, no way should that team be losing to Cas, Hull and HKR.
If only we played on paper...
