The number of handling errors was ridiculous; thats just basic stuff that we should be getting right by now.
The weather was fine, the pitch was ok (despite the slope), the ref could have been better but the loss was simply down to the players.
That game was a big wake up call - We can beat (in one half anyway) the team that everyone else has beaten so far but that doesnt make us invincible, we had to go out and put the effort in against Oldham and we didnt.
Take nothing away from Oldham - they bossed the game, and deserved the win.
Seems we’ve got a couple of things to sort out at the moment on the field. We’re making too many errors and we’re getting outmuscled up front. In every game we’ve made unforced errors and this has cost us. Recent examples of errors costing us being away at London, at home in the cup vs Fev and now yesterday at Oldham. If you don’t put any pressure on the opposition you’ll not score enough points and they’ll win the energy battle as it proved yesterday.
Losing Murray was a blow yesterday as it was his second stint versus Dewsbury that helped break the game open for us. Magrin wasn’t 100% and Roche got a knock early on. That left us massively short up front what with already losing Peltier to injury and Oledzki back to Leeds. Kirk is willing enough but a long way from being the finished article. Add to that Larroyer being missing and the cards were really stacked against us.
I hope some of these injuries aren’t too bad or we’ll be looking at -4 for some time yet.
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