Obviously there are positives and negatives.
Negatives:
- Shipping too many points.
- Short kick offs were the only real advantage they had over us, but they really took advantage of them. It's an underused tactic and today was obvious to see why.
- The semi comeback, the inability to hold on to the lead, the soft tries after good defensive work.
Positives:
+ Youngsters comfortably amongst the best players on the pitch. Hulme was great and Flynn was my MOM.
+ Some creative tries, neat little passes inside and good running from coyle and hulme.
+ Discipline was better, we were pinged for some stupid errors but it wasn't a dirty game from either team.
+ Dominant, and a second half performance where our defence was less shaky instead of more. Unfortunately for us, so was theirs.
+ Entertaining, uplifting, in front of a big healthy crowd.
+ Better than many expected after ridding ourselves of four players, those left behind really worked hard to reassure the fans that things were on track.
+ Logan Tomkins, worked harder in 80 minutes than his brother did in his whole time he was here. Looked like he relished the game, not like he was on a holiday.
So positives to take away, some negatives to work on. Fax do not look like a relegation side but then it's so tight in this division they have to buck their ideas up soon. We have to work on that defence, but we've got some real reasons to be happy today.