Thought we were pretty average overall. ellis was immense and logan had a good game with sneyd showing some good touches. If we ever found an attacking threat we'd be great but as it is we spend plenty of time in good attacking positions but still struggle to score. We looked worryingly easy to score against today too.
Can't see anything but 3 losses between now and the split
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Loads of effort and commitment today, team spirit seemed fine, no negative body language but still far too many basic handling errors. Our defence was also disappointing as I thought we would have been able to handle their attacking threat much better than we did. Still I'll take the two points.
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We always looked the most likely to win the game. A wins a win, but it's pretty depressing that our season partly hinged on beating a pretty poor Wakefield team.
Ellis was a monster today. If we'd had Sneyd on Wednesday, we'd have won, without a doubt.
Wakefield played on a piffpoor referee who let them lie on every single tackle, time-waste all game and niggle.
Really pleased for Logan who now should keep that spot. If he can forge a partnership with Michaels, that will do me.
What is worrying is that we needed a drop goal against a terrible bottom table club. Our defence has fallen to pieces. If we didn't have an outstanding pack, we'd be looking towards bottom 2.
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It was disappointing that we didn't defend the first error that led to the try particularly as we would have been pretty fresh then. The second try obviously wasn't a defensive error but an attacking one. The 2 they scored in the second half were good tries. We could have done better but our defence wasn't catastrophic IMO. Helps if you kick the goals.
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Irregular Hoops wrote:We always looked the most likely to win the game. A wins a win, but it's pretty depressing that our season partly hinged on beating a pretty poor Wakefield team.
That's the way I feel too. Pleased we've won but hardly buoyed by the fact that yet again we are having a poor season, only just beaten the bottom side and are still playing so inconsistently poor.
What I find puzzling is that we were like this earlier in the season then transformed completely but we've now reverted to type. Some of our attempts at attack are worse than watching U11's
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Jake the Peg wrote:What I find puzzling is that we were like this earlier in the season then transformed completely but we've now reverted to type. Some of our attempts at attack are worse than watching U11's
Don't think it was that bad overall. 6 tries and 2 held ups is a lot better than we managed earlier in the season.
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Jake the Peg wrote:We were playing the bottom side with the worst defensive record in SL though.
Always tough after 3 games in 9 days and low on confidence against a team that are much improved and high on confidence, hopefully we can kick on from here,
Thought there 3rd try was a really poor effort from Rankin who should have dealt with the kick better.
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