if that's the best tactit 3 coaches can come up with(bomb after bomb) its time they were all replaced

Totally agree

Desperately short of ideas in attack - halves are struggling as, apart from getting a roll on up the middle, we have pretty much no options - strike second rowers being the obvious one, as they cause greater options then out wide

They where peppering Grace on the wing.He fluffed the first,what tactic would you use given we where a depleted side again?

There was another tactic as in kicking on the 3rd/4th..Do you agree with that?

Best they could do in my eyes,given the resources available.

Next week is the chance to challenge for 2 points. The positive is that yet again we didn't get a thumping.

The more battle harden we get, the easier it will be.

We are seriously lacking creativity and pace.

Game management is so frustrating, my biggest annoyance is that we seem to think we have to score every time we are in the opposition 20, and generally end up the opposite end of the pitch.
Personally, sometimes I'm not even bothered if we get tackled on the 5th 90 odd yards away from our line - it keeps the pressure on

Creativity yes, as I have said previously potent second rowers are the obvious due to the other options they also create

Not sure we are completely lacking pace, closed saints down tonight when they broke the line, Hampshire and Higson are no slouches

Middle 8s May prove a challenge

No it won't. We will have a few signings, and the likes of Tonga, Maria, Micky and Gaz back. We'll be alreet.

I truly hope so

I thought Saints struggled with the bombs, the early kicks in the tackle count however dodnt work or seem to be well thought out.

attacking kicked when executed well are a great weapon as it should be 60/40 in the attacks favour.

Isn't it Col , drives me mad , by all means try to score , but on the last get that ball over the line on the floor , either get to it 1 st or force them to pick it up and bring it out , the ' bomb ' can go either way , great if you get hold of it , not great if the opposition catch it or it gets ' palmed ' back behind our attacking line

Having our back line constantly being reshuffled obviously doesnt help , but putting up high kicks for shortish players isn't to me the best ploy

Anyway , the target is now 28 points , bring on Wakey , but please not Mr Hicks

No creativity nothing no threat no tactics just slogging away with no direction at all changes need to be made asap or you know where we will be

Did you expect us to be challenging for top 4 this season? We are where most of us expected to be at this stage.

We'll be stronger come the middle 8's and, if we stay up, will be stronger next season

I watched Reynolds closely in the warm up "getting the ball over the line", not once did he leave it there, always going dead - would therefore give 7 tackles from the 20, big difference since the rule change, better to start them 5 meters out with 6 tackles
Don't want to be having a go at the lad personally because until he has the backs to play with we don't know how good he may or may not be

But it doesn't have to be Ben putting in the kick all the time , sometimes the hooker or even the centre putting the ball back across on the angle rather than a ' north-south ' kick

No i didnt unlike some deluded folk
Who reckoned we'd be top 6 , i actually thought we'd be better than this though lacking a brain imo

Again, not wishing to have a go at anybody in particular, but not convinced we have the people to do that at the moment - Drinkwater being the exception to that, but for that reason he tends to get targeted by the opposition