I didn't think you were all that bad tbh. Your pack held their own which no other side has really done against us yet and in fact for about 15 minutes after we had gone 12-0 up you were dominant. The difference between the two sides was when the ball went wide.

Jeffries was a terrible signing for you imo and Deacon looked very avarage too. Nero is cracking player on his day but he is a back rower, not a centre. You just don't have those players who can make things happen. It was a tight game and but for a few magic moments from Manu and Thorman you could have probably won.

That was Les Dawson-esque timing.

Except its actually two games less - they have played 50% more games than us. But hey, why let the facts get in the way again, eh?

Not sure how anyone can say Scruton has been good. He drops most balls that come to him. He was even looking the wrong way when one came to him yesterday.

I'm just hoping that it's a case of lots of new players needing to gel and players getting used to playing out of position, ie 13 2nd rowers (or almost that many) and changing position about 5 times in each match. But I'm not too confident with that hope right now, my bigger hope is that we scrape 8th somehow and use the spare cap to buy a new team for the playoffs.

Because some of us have watched him





. . . and some of us clearly haven't