Quote ="Jack Burton"We won, but with the ball, that was our worst performance of the season. The standard of the basic skills and execution are so poor, it really looks like they do nothing in training.'"
10 games in now and, from memory, our new spine has remained injury free and played most games together (think Miller missed one). Still absolutely no indication that it is starting to ‘gel’. In fact it’s probably getting worse. Frawley had a shocker. Not just his usual unimaginative kicks straight to the winger or full-back but now mixing it up with kicks directly into touch. Defensively, where I thought he’s normally pretty solid, he got beaten on the inside a couple of times. Miller is obviously a maverick and a dangerous runner but has now been worked out. Getting tackled into touch on the first tackle pretty much summarises his last few games. Croft keeps showing glimpses of class and Ackers has been solid if not spectacular.
We should be starting to see some understanding by now, some set moves, some flowing passing movements along the backline with decoy runners. Instead we had entire sets today with our backs doing every drive.
Whatever gel they’re using isn’t setting properly in this unusually inclement Spring weather.
