I'll admit I'm more interested in how my Kabbadi side, the Jaipur Pink Panthers got on in the Pro Kabbadi League than I was in Saints.
That game tonight was unwatchable and the standard was truly shambolic. Hull KR are a shadow of themselves because of all the injuries, but had Albert Kelly not gone off they would have probably won tonight.
I can't wait to see how next week goes against Cas. There is a real danger that if they play like they did against Hull that we'll be blown off the park. But if we manage to win the next two, we'll probably be in a very pretty position in the table. Perhaps I'm overstating the impact of how poor we are, the standard of the competition seems to have taken a huge step backwards over the last few years.
The performance tonight was criticised by Carney and he was bang on, tonight was poor. The players are so static in both attack and defense. They highlighted it at half time, the team just defends like a garden fence, they spread out and stay still, it's a worrying sight and I think we could be on the receiving end of a true hammering this year from someone if we don't improve. In attack it's much the same. Whenever we have the ball there is usually only three players who move, the dummy half, the player he passes to and on occasions if that's a halfback the player he then passes to. The rest of the line are static. One of the things most noticable about the NRL sides was the numbers of players in motion when they had possession. They really put the effort in to giving options to their hooker and halves and support the ball carrier. The forwards have options to pass before the line and support if they get an arm free or make a break. We just go literally one out so often it makes us incredibly easy to defend against. I didn't watch too closely tonight, but I can't think of many clean breaks tonight at all. We scored twice from kicks, one from a dropped ball where we were lucky to not concede at the other end. The other two were incredibly basic barge overs from close to the line that were very soft tries.
I just don't know where to go first however. There is so little right about us, where do you start trying to improve that?
