Prior to the game on Good Friday I was confident that if we remained relatively error free, maintained good discipline and kicked Saints into their own twenty then we would win. I did also predict that it would probably be a low scoring affair due to the poor forecast.
Well our discipline was shocking and we made numerous costly errors, yet only succumbed very late on from a winning position with only twelve players.
Why was I so confident beforehand? Put simply Saints these days seem unable to attack from deep to score (and if/when they do its very rare). Would love to compare Makinson's tries over the last two seasons to Marshall's. Field's to Welsby's, Lomax's to French.
Give Saints a penalty in your own half and you're asking for bother. Make them come away from their own line and its comfortable. This is where we failed Good Friday.
That said they play Hull FC at home at the weekend, if they don't score 6-8 tries against them lot (at best) or even get beat again then they really are struggling, obviously can't see this happening as FC are shocking so should be a easy win.
