Quote S="S"Paper over cracks time again. Everyones happy with the result but the best team lost. Our defence is shocking and the pack too lightweight. Boy do we miss Ellis.'"
What ''cracks''?
It's become a cliche to say it because of the sky commentators but this season for me has seen a sudden spurt in the evening up of the competition.
If sinfield misses that conversion hudds stay 2nd..........with 4 rounds to go.
Teams like hudds often start well then fall back into the pack pretty fast. But this season is different.
The only difference in the sky games this weekend has been that leeds and saints have had that winning instinct.
In fact leeds have relied very heavily on that this season as do saints at times (i find saints tend to be winning their games more comfortably than leeds), but you can only rely on it so long.
Sooner or later saints and leeds will be knocked from their perch and it really will be anyones league. Hell it could easily happen this season with the new play off format.
So what are those cracks?
Warrington stifled our play for large periods, we occasionally got the upper hand.
People are going to see less and less champaigne rugby and more and more close tense arm wrestles like we saw tonight.
So don't put it on leeds, ''what's wrong with leeds, papering over the cracks'' etc etc. Other teams are just getting better.
Get used to it.
We've had 3 titles in 5 years with 4 grand final appearences in that time. Our time will soon end.