Quote ="mdean"The more pertinent question to me is that in attack, we were under strength so let's say scoring 12 was acceptable for arguments sake.
The reciprocal however was that in defence, we should have been at least solid, there was nobody new in the line, so none of the disruption is responsible for conceding 70. Arguably Ferres is a better defender than Danny or Rangi, so with him in the 13 as well, it should have been better.
There are 17 people responsible for serving that up yesterday; whatever you say about selections, and for the record I would not have picked Brierly either, going down 24-0 in 20 minutes is the run on 13 simply checking out. You can say that's the coach's job, but not at the elite level, they should make a statement about their performance yesterday becuase RW and IW rightly on wrongly get thier share of abuse, but 17 players abused their positions yesterday.'"
I agree entirely with your comments, i fail to see how the coach can be blamed for players deciding they are not going to tackle the opposition. Millward certainly doesn't coach a team to let other teams destroy them in the first 15 minutes of a game which is what happened yesterday. The players need to take a long hard look at themselves and do the job they are getting paid for. If you put the same effort into your job of work would you expect your boss to get the rollocking, i don't think so. These players have a duty to us fans who have supported them through 2 relegations but displays like yesterday's are totally unacceptable.
