Terrible missed tackle in the first eighty seconds.

And another.

And another.

To be fair to the lad in attack, he doesn't have a single dummy runner to play off.

Well, if nothing else Adam Quinlan is lucky.

So - if you "jump" at a ball you've played at it.

But if you "walk toward" the ball you haven't.



And Stuart Cummings is a REFEREE?!?!

No. I'm a referee. Cummings is an ex-referee who embarrasses actual referees at least once per televised game.



Back to Walsh-watch. I think he's already been a lot better than last week.

He's looking really dodgy whenever Huddersfield try to attack him.



Going forward he's trying. But we look totally disorganised.



WHO is supposed to be organising the side?

TACTIC: Everyone follow Savelio.

Agree he looks like the worst defender in the competition. But I think he's doing a lot more in attack. What he doesn't have is runners. Perhaps it's been too long without creativity, and our players have lost the habit of running lines and making themselves available.

Huddersfield don't look anything special. But they have a gameplan. Their pack and backs are functioning as a cohesive unit.



We look completely disorganised. What points we've scored really have been a product of individual effort.

To be fair, it must be hard to develop any kind of consistency when the playmakers keep changing each week.

Cunningham has a real problem now. Whether Walsh's difficulties are down to a lack of confidence or a loss of mobility we can't afford to keep playing him and watch opponents sail past him.

We have two decent attacking centres. What we haven't developed is a way of giving them quality ball in space.



On the plus side, Roby seems to have decided that now we have a fullback who can back up again, it might be worth his while running from dummy half again.

True. But it's the halves who dictate the attacking pattern. So far we've shown none. We look like a side desperately short of confidence.







Yeah. We'd be lost without Roby.

I'm baffled why Sky are concentrating on Turner over the first try. Had Walsh stayed with his man that break doesn't happen.

I think there's a decent argument that we should play Walsh at FB in defence. He'd only have to slow down any breaks till the cover got there, but more importantly, there'd be far fewer breaks without him in the line!

I've just replayed a few incidents in the game and it's very noticeable that Walsh leg (I assume it's the injured one) often splays out maybe twenty degrees. It's not perpendicular to the pitch.



It could just be an idiosyncrasy of his game. But I don't recall it last season. Is he protecting that leg? Is he in pain shifting weight across?

Gee whizz. That left edge defence is dreadful.

Six missed tackles.



To be fair to Walshy, he looks a class act with ball in hands. It's that [ishift in direction[/i which concerns me. He looks like someone who's either protecting his leg or in pain.

The thing that mystifies me is what happened to that solid, brick-wall defence which moved up rapidly and in a straight line at the start of the year? We've gone from hitting the opposition at or behind the advantage line to letting them come onto us.



Kyle Amor looks a shadow of the player he was.

Never mind the left edge. It's been a surrender-fest every time Hudds have got a bit of territory. A lot of work to be done with this defence.

We're in trouble here. Huddersfield look more likely to score.



Nearly all their tries have resulted from Walsh's defence. But we're also giving Huddersfield the territory through stupi, stupid penalties.

We look completely knackered. Desperate times call for desperate measures. I'd give very serious consideration to taking several of the senior players out of one of the upcoming games. If it means throwing a game - so be it.

The irony. The irony ...