We were poor tonight against an equally poor Crusaders team. If the performance wasn't bad enough we then had to endure that from Wire with his drum!!! I'm just gutted that we seemed to have turned the corner then just took two massive backward steps.

The first half was dire but we got ourselves into a winning position after the break but still managed to fook it up.

So deflated that only the Strongbow can ease the pain!

Beaten by basic rugby. Forwards couldn't get on top and our 'flair' players failed to make a break all night. The kicking game was awful.

The Crusaders were there for the taking and we simply couldn't come up with another quality performance. We could win at Cas next week or concede 50. The joy of being a Reds supporter!

Doubt Chan will have a better game again this season than he did last night.

I doubt very much that Sammut will stay for long as he does look a classy player even if he does look a tool with his Sean Longesque hair.

Think Anderson showed a couple of glimpses of what awaits and think Adamson has been told it's time he started making yards going forward rather than just tackling.

One very pleaseing aspect for me was the depth of the passing, the shallow flat ball we have been used to over the past few seasons has made most balls hospital passes but last night we seemed to make more room for ourselves.

All in all not the best performance but on another night a couple would have stuck early on and we'd have battered a team that seemed to feed on the fact that we didn't breach them.

A definite off day, from both sides which makes it worse - had they played well I wouldn't have minded so much?!

I did predict we'd lose and wasn't surprised that we did, just the manner of the defeat that worried me.

However we don't have a good/big/old enough squad to ensure any kind of consistency just yet so, as long as we look better next week, we should just put it down to experience and move on.

The coaches/players shouldn't let last night change their plans for the improved style of football which we've played over recent weeks.

Crusaders were terrible and somehow we were worse. The worst game I think I've ever seen.

The more I think about it the worse it becomes. They weren't just there for the taking, they were there to get demolished but we played the whole game a such a pedestrian pace it was untrue. No offloads, no support, no spreading the ball, no line speed, no depth, no creativity, just nothing. If we played like we have been doing then that could have been a 30+ win.

I really really really hope its just a glitch, but no matter what, its going to take some turn around to even start to compete with Castleford on that showing.
Holdsworth has got the potential to be a very good player, but he needs to start doing something different and run with the ball. Its one of three things every time- inside ball, behind to Patten or short to somebody like Adamson (who I thought actually played pretty well). I'm not for one second blaming Holdsworth for us losing, but he is our captain and we insist on virtually everything coming through him and its just not good enough atm.

I thought Godwin, Adamson played well as did Gleeson (although according to the website he is being assessed on an ankle injury), Cashmere and Ratchford in patches. Anderson tried hard but made two stupid errors, but hopefully he can pick it up next week, we need him to. Ganson didn't exactly help the game and how Gareth Thomas' try was given I will never know.

Hopefully it is just a case of Crusaders being our bogey team and next week we will be playing to our potential. Time will tell.

See, now if the club had reduced the cost of entry to £10 like you've been harping on about you'd have been about £60 light of pocket.

The club not doing so has saved you a big wad of money