One week we look a top six side, the next we look like wooden spoonists.

We looked a little clueless in attack against Catalans and really struggled to break down their defence. Against St Helens we threw the ball around, scored some fantastic tries and played a very entertaining brand of rugby.

Today we found ourselves 16 points up without playing particularly well and seemed to think that continuing in the same vein was all that was required. So we continued to throw questionable passes, fail to adapt our kicking game to the conditions on the pitch and fail to nullify their halfbacks - and we got what we deserved.

Who are our game managers? Brough, Ellis and Hinchcliffe? There was next to no game management and organisation evident on the pitch. Hinchcliffe was disappointing, his speed out of dummy half was sub-standard and his passing a little erratic. Brough helped with the go-forward on the occasions he stepped into dummy half and provided the odd spark, and Wood had a positive impact. Ellis, for the second successive week, had his pace - or lack of - exposed and had a poor kicking game - his ideas seemed reasonable but his execution left much to be desired. We had few good kicks in the game - yes, the pitch is unnatural for the players but this should be taken into account and tested during the warm-up.

Just what was our game plan? For swathes of the game we looked rudderless, and with poor (if any) game management we made poor plays, two examples of many being Lawrence passing to Mason when he had absolutely nowhere to go and Ta'ai forcing an offload to Connor who knocked on when all we needed to do was play safe and see the half out. Instead we let them back into the game and gave them hope at a critical psychological time.

Connor has undoubted talent but he did little today and was another whose pace was exposed. Wardle looked tired, almost disinterested at times, so why wasn't he spelled - maybe for Roberts who seems deserving of more than a 10 minute cameo at the end of the game? Grix lost the ball critically on our own line and died with it several times when in the attacking line. He also looked slow trying to cover Mellor. Eorl, unfortunately, looked a shadow of his former self and seemed to plod forward with the exception of one decent run.

That's a few players who, in my view, looked slow today. The pitch exposed us and whereas Broughton's pace helped win it for us last season, Mellor's pace and our lack of it cost us today. Wood made a break, no support. Leroy made a break, no support. I do hope Brierley's tonsillitis has cleared up by Friday.

Sebastine, Ta'ai and Rapira all worked hard but at the end of the day there were far too many sub-par performances in a potentially season-defining match. Very disappointing, completely lacking in organisation. Their penultimate try had a large question mark over it but we got what we deserved. What a difference a week makes.

Then somebody wants to get Anderson onto the same page.

My biggest fear is Brierley becomes the new Broughton and seeks pastures new due to lack of opportunities I know its early doors before someone shoots me down, but if Brierley had had nightmare after nightmare then id agree grix should come straight back in but hes done nowt wrong , unless you call backing up breaks and being solid under the high ball as wrong? We need to be looking to the future as it looks like the super 8s are now forlorn hope.

Luke Robinson's column in the Examiner at the weekend clearly pointed to the fact that Brierley had been dropped for the Saints game and it wasn't because he was ill.

Correct,he was fit and available for Sunday as well,he did have a bout of tonsillitis,although it didn't have any affect on selection.

masterclass from queensland today in how to win a close game..... wish we could learn to do this! didnt hinchcliffe play with cooper cronk for long enough?