Pumpetypump wrote:If you see the start to the season through the prism of us being a fallen giant then you could get downcast I suppose but I'm firmly telling myself the whole time "We are newly promoted". The other day we went to an established top 5 Championship club and beat them on their own turf. The fact that they hate us and lost to a freshly promoted side must have been really annoying.
The capitulation at Feath better not become a habit but nor is it a disaster. We are roughly where I expected us to be, the only thing that has surprised me is that our attack hasn't clicked, and I thought that would have become more fluent by now.
On the attacking front, for me it's more that we don't attempt, rather than don't achieve. We're far too formulaic and don't seem willing to try anything different. Our halves don't take on the line enough, whether it comes off or not, if you don't even try it then the defensive line can discount the (lack of) threat from an acting half and just look for the runners - we're making their job easier.
Off-loads is an other area we don't make enough use of. I can understand that JK probably considers it 'risky', and it is but I'm not suggesting we do it every other tackle like some clubs. There are plenty of tackles where players could be given the discretion imo, and again, if we never do it defences can ignore the threat and concentrate on making the 10, again making their job easier. It is a balance I know but imo we haven't got it quite right.
