A quote taken out of context to support your own eternal optimistic view. Well done.

If you're going to try have someone over at least get it right



It was not the winning under discussion but the praising of our defence and our opposing views on the subject.



Do try keep up.

Anyone that knows my posts on here will know that I can be quite critical of the team and am far from optimistic most of the time. However I also believe in praising the team too.



Let's not forget that we won last night. And yet there's far too many people on here still not happy. We should be celebrating the win, not picking it to pieces by criticising the defence for only conceding one try.

Don't try to be positive Doc you will get shot down

You keep proving the point I've made mate. Cheers,

Cool.

And kicking

I noticed.



I said on Friday after the match that it wasn't our best performance but that it wasn't our worst performance either.



What people need to remember is that we was coming off the back of three straight defeats, the last of which was a hammering. I don't think we was ever going to go from being hammered one week to hammering a team ourselves the week after. I think the players will have been nervous not to make it four defeats in a row and decided on playing safety first rugby designed to get us the win. They delivered.

This is exactly what I said pre season. We've spent stupid amounts of money on the back row leaving our back line woefully short on quality.

I do sometimes wonder how the atmosphere in the stadium affects the players. The whole atmosphere on Friday was nervous and subdued from the start with audible chuntering and moaning all through the game and nervous was exactly the sort of game we had.

I'm in no way blaming the fans btw. Its something of a chicken and egg situation. A good atmosphere helps a good performance I feel but you need a good performance to get a good atmosphere, at the KC anyway.

It was caused by the staff/team from the previous week, I think everybody knew we would beat Wakefield but it was the manner the team set out to achieve this, I know they've worked on defence all week, I've said before wakeys plan is to frustrate & slow down the opposition, really poor plan but they've nothing else, the players seem to be lacking confidence maybe it's the narrow defeats & the embarrassing display at Widnes, they will grow in confidence it's still early in the season yet, so for me the 2 points each week is all that matters, I know they will be addressing a lot in training we will come good we have a very good squad with experience, we all have bad days at work.

Had similar thoughts about the atmosphere last year after hearing something about the players not enjoying playing at the KC. They do need the fans behind them to give them a boost to deliver a good performance but it has gotten to a point now where the only way the crowd will be fully behind them is by giving us a good performance. As you say, chicken and egg.

You forgot the middle 8s as well