How many times have we played well at home this season? I reckon twice the defeats of Warrington and Hull. We scraped wins against Wakey and Celtic the rest have been floggings with some second half rallies (Cats, Saints, Hudds and Bulls.

I know an ex-pro who has a friend who was until recently on the Quins staff. He told me that the players were 'flogged' in training. That would explain why so many of our forwards get injured in training and why we look so flatfooted compared to visiting sides. We are probably better away because the players can rest on the travels.

I really think that Brian has lost the plot at the moment, he seems to have no answer as to why the players are clueless at home.

It is no way to build crowds in London that is for sure.

May be this is true, but I doubt it. More likely that with recent injuries and players returning then being out again that BMsD feels a more conservative playing style ie. one pass, drive - repeat fives times and kick has a beeter chance of keeping us in a game and ensuring reduced injury risk.


Look at how the team played at HKR when we flogged them. No injuries (except Chad Robinson), going great in attack and defence. Forwards getting us forward and laying a platform... then Purdo goes off injured and each game there after there is another main player out and so on.


It is strange to think at the end of June we put 40 past HKR - but with a team that had gone 12 or 13 rounds without any major injuries.


We have banged on about our poor form of late but remember Leeds had a really bad run of defeats puntured by the odd win in the late first half of the season - calling ofr their coaches head.

We now seem to start seasons well and fall away where as under Rea we started poorly and finished well / poorly - delete as you see fit.

If this is the case - it is not working!



Overall we did better under Rea though, he did at least get us to the play offs twice:

2001 - 6th
2002 - 8th
2003 - 5th
2004 - 10th
2005 - 6th
2006 - 7th
2007 - 9th
2008 - 9th
2009 - 9th

As has been the case throughout the club's history a major contributory factor to our problems is the lack of depth in the squad to cover the inevitable injuries. We currently have four or five top class players in the squad (Purdham, Randall, Orr, Howell etc) but when they are either out injured or playing through injury (as seemed to be the case with Danny and Chad at the weekend) then we just don't have the quality cover for those positions. However to get that quality into the squad we need to be able to attract a higher class of reserve player (can't afford to at present on our crowds or without a very rich sugar daddy) or develop our own (making great strides but not there yet).

Despite the gloom and doom surrounding the recent run of results and Saturday's dismal showing the hope has got to be that we will be producing players of sufficient quality, in sufficient quantity, to overcome this problem in the not too distant future.

Well said