Comebacks finished

DeJaVu with Walker and Olbison combination. Why are we persisting with them!

Great play sees Lulia break and offload to Sammut but Kopczak high tackles him.

Poor pass from L'Estrange and Addy drops it.

Great play on the first. Not.

Foster stops another 40/20. And then Sammut attempts his own. Lunt breaks through offloads to Crabtree. Excellent cover from Kear. Robinson then gets smashed by Lulia on a play to the right before the Giants switch it left where L'Estrange missed a tackle and a Hudds player flicks it to Ferres who scores.

That was so forward. Academic like. But still irritating.

We've given up.....

We've no fight. When ferries slapping Whitehead about we just stand and watch. Awful awful defence! Embarrassing!!

Sorry, but it's embarrassing this. Poor poor defence.

Evans misses a tackle and Mullally goes in to score. 42-6

We gave up a while ago.

Worst team performance of the weekend.

Piss poor defence as Grix simply breaks through the middle only to slip as he approaches Foster.

Whitehead breaks through then offload goes to ground. Game over....

Piss poor performance.

Lots of praise been helped on the Giants, but to be fair, we made it quite easy for them. Dropped ball, stupid penalties and non- existent defence.
We can't perform at magic weekend at all.

Getting sick of us not turning up.

Losing confidence in FC's ability to sort the problems out.

Same stuff each week, don't know how Walker and Diskin are getting in the side every week. Hope that new deal walker was close to has been put on hold.

Where was Bateman today?

Most of them are turning up and working their balls off.
Scruton, Langley, Evans, Fairbank is all that needs to be said. Foster has just come back from injury. Walker and Diskin are shot but we have a colossal deficit of physically mature players who are big enough. The defence is not about attitude, it is about physical fatigue.

I was far from convinced by Cummin's appointment but in a weird way today confirmed I was wrong. With the pack and bench we were able to put out, plus the players missing we never gave up. That has not always been the case.

I know it didn't look that way but with 50% Sky money scandal there's a lot more going right than wrong with this group and this coach.

I know Purtell has had an astonishingly tough time, but I'm not sure what he offers at the moment, nor Olbison. Foster doesn't seem to be able or willing to tackle and our team spirit, so evident last year, seems to have deserted us.

However, I do think Addy played better than Gale has, we obviously miss Manese and our forwards are clearly not good enough without him. Diskin is a complete waste of space, he's so slow now that he doesn't even need the comparison with the likes of Lunt for everyone to spot he's pedestrian. To play that poorly on such a big stage is embarrassing, only a couple of players come out with any respect one being Kear.

I imagine we have to hope the teams below us continue to blow their opportunities.

Are you suggesting smaller players get fatigued more easily, or that for some reason they have played longer and harder than many of the opposition players they face? This sounds like the making of an excuse, rather than a reasoned explanation.

Bit sick and tired of seeing Whitehead getting bullied tbh. He needs to stick up for himself now and again!!

Only player that deserves any credit from today was Kear.

Yes, smaller players first of all dont provide quite so much in the tackle as bigger players and secondly they do get tired sooner than bigger players. Check out the times of the tries. Quite a lot more in the second half, when, yes, believe or not, after all that time tackling (most of the time) or driving in, players were tired. We missed two big players , Nas and Sidlow, all told we are light on players and light on big players. If you knew anything about the laws of momentum, you would have reasoned things out for yourself instead of making totally naive statements like this, a complete contrast to your immediately preceding post. What is your excuse? Brain exhausted after the previous post?

Not sure what people expected in a match where we were outmatched in pack tbh. Couple of dodgy decisions apart can't complain at result too much and tbh it was pretty much expected. Don't think we can complain about team spirit too much, we were just our own worst enemies penalty wise and out classed on pitch in terms of players available on day.

Don't think it was a case of the better team won, our defence was like under 8s. The Giants just walked through us.

Oh yes the fabled laws of momentum, must have forgotten about those, interesting then that some of our smaller players like Donaldson were still making tackles when our bigger players were getting brushed off, or of course there's the example of any number of smaller hookers I could mention who routinely make more tackles than props.

What is naive is to make an analogy with something you evidently know nothing about i.e. classical mechanics, whilst disregarding the empirical evidence that comes from using your eyes and watching the game you're meant to be commenting about.

Honestly, I'd almost forgotten why I'd given up posting on here, but thankfully you've popped up to remind me. Dealing with the occasional idiot is indeed exhausting. Thanks.

Smaller and less physically mature men fatigue quicker when tackling bigger and more physically mature men - not just during a game but cumulatively over a season in my view. Walker, Whitehead and Olbison started the season well but are now playing poorly as our front row is consistently unable to match their opponents. I don't think this is anyone's fault, rather a consequence of the administration/budget situ. The 4 props we played yesterday aren't a Super League standard unit.