Still some weaknesses in the squad which I think will stop us competing at the top table. Halfs not consistentlty good enough. sneyd needs to start to stamp his authority on games, pryce I expect will be less effective and more injured and abdul needs to drop some weight but even then we can't rely on a 19/20 year old. 3/4's average at best and no real cover for houghton.

If ellis doesn't come back from his injury we need to spend his salary cap in the backs IMO

Agree with all this. As just said we need to leverage our strength in the pack through eager support of the ball carrier to offset lack of quality 3/4s. Unfortunately it doesn't seem a priority.

I thought support play was better against leeds but mainly due to shaul who has always done it. Interesting that all 4 of the youngsters playing that night looked to "promote" the ball much more than the regular first team do. Different mentality or just lack of experience meaning less fear of it not coming off?

Richard Horne's influence possibly. His linkage with Shaun Briscoe was great. Agree about Shaul but it's a vicious circle. Our attempts to play more expansive rugby have been fraught with errors costing us points. It's not in our mindset so tends to look clunky. If we're going to by to work on one thing in the off season it has to be this. Pointless having a big pack if we're just getting them to cart the ball up and do a bomb on the 5th.

The Tank has a sublime offload that he's exquisitely demonstrated in the Dogs last two games.
Will be criminal if it's not adequately taken advantage of.

Watts is 3rd in SL for offloads (55) also. Need to build around this.

Let's go offload crazy
Let's go offload crazy
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