Joined: Jun 01 2007 Posts: 12645 Location: Leicestershire.
...we lose.
First of all, i’m going to count some of our blessings and acknowledge some current difficulties.
The last couple of seasons the team has achieved its main goals, and we’re up and running this season with a couple of wins, including a dramatic last gasp victory in the derby. Also, we are missing a few and we’ve got a few still settling in. Plus we know we’re unlikely to be challenging at the very top of end the league, so defeats are going to happen. This, isn’t all woe is me.
But what the poop is it with us chucking away big leads quite as often as we do? It’s like it is in our metaphorical DNA, the flip side of the coin to ‘never write off the Saints’, whoever is playing or coaching. ‘Never bank on the Rovers’. Does it just feel like it happens to us more than to other teams at our level, and much more often than we do it to others? Or is it a real thing?
Has it happened so often that the crowd gets tense when we go 14 up, and that transmits itself to the players? Or something like that?
Bloomin’ heck.
'Thus I am tormented by my curiosity and humbled by my ignorance.' from History of an Old Bramin, The New York Mirror (A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts), February 16th 1833.
First of all, i’m going to count some of our blessings and acknowledge some current difficulties.
The last couple of seasons the team has achieved its main goals, and we’re up and running this season with a couple of wins, including a dramatic last gasp victory in the derby. Also, we are missing a few and we’ve got a few still settling in. Plus we know we’re unlikely to be challenging at the very top of end the league, so defeats are going to happen. This, isn’t all woe is me.
But what the poop is it with us chucking away big leads quite as often as we do? It’s like it is in our metaphorical DNA, the flip side of the coin to ‘never write of the Saints’, whoever is playing or coaching. ‘Never bank on the Rovers’. Does it just feel like it happens to us more than to other teams at our level, and much more often than we do it to others? Or is it a real thing?
Has it happened so often that the crowd gets tense when we go 14 up, and that transmits itself to the players? Or something like that?
Bloomin’ heck.
It’s early hopefully the real rovers will turn up I hope
Sau should have seen red. Again we are on the wrong side of it Tomkins perfectly good try wiped off. Lack of speed at PTB.Missed tackles and poor end to sets. Should have won that but until we have our key men playing with heads up and controlling things we invite teams back in. Hastings milking penalties and being generally grubby doesn't mask the fact he's the best half in the league
We'll always be perenial under achievers untill we sort out our defencive problems, missed tackles, dropping off tackles, shooting out of the line. We never improve in these areas year after year, no matter who the coach is. Last week half time came at the right time, unfortunatly it went against us today because we went in thinking the job was done and we never got going again. Credit to Salford for jumping on us as we dozed off
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