Just watching Boots n all again, Cullen made an interesting point that due to our 1 up play they only needed to put 2 men into each tackle. Watching Quins with the ball we were putting 3 or 4 into the tackle. Doesnt help. Also picked on G Hornes defence and Yeamo's defence, poor plays and poor reads.

Cullen keeps highlighting G Hornes defence close to the line doesnt he?

He picked on both Richard and Graeme as scoring some good tries but also being at fault. Yeamo's read for Clubbs try was poor from a GB centre too.

Still think G Horne has to keep hold of that centre shirt though, dont see Whiting taking it off him just yet. (think briscoe will when Raynor is back though, and if not Hall may when motu is back)

I have to say, I'm one of those who is negative, and has been for the majority of the season despite wins. I think those who slag people like me off are under the mentality that winning= ok, losing= nay ok. Although I like it when we win games, thats not the be all and end all for me.
Generally, I'm happy when I leave a game if I feel the players have played consistantly to their potential over 80 minutes and have tried their hearts out, allowing for the fact that you will generally get the odd game where this doesnt exactly happen. The Catalans game this season is the only time when I feel this has happened, so 6 games in 7 it hasn't which to me is not the 'odd game.'
I'm the type of person that looks at the bigger picture. I think about what types of teams win trophies. These teams are the teams that are consistant for 80 minutes a game, for the majority of a league campaign permitting they have players of sufficient quality. We aren't the best team in the league but I expect us to have a chance and at the moment I look at our performances and feel that no matter where we finish, the way we play, the effort etc, we will win nothing again.
We aren't consistant, in terms of the 80 minutes and over the course of a season, spell of games etc. We haven't had the latter since 2004. We came close in 2006 when Sharp took over but the next season proved it was a false dawn. We should have killed Wigan (the worse team I have seen us play since Leigh 2005), Bradford, Huddersfield and arguably Castleford off. We were very poor in patches against Celtic too and looked very unconvincing. We were terrible over 80 minutes full stop against Quins, and then the game I am pleased with against Catalans.
I wouldn't care if we had a crap team (in the short term anyway), I wouldn't care if we played very boring rugby (which we do half the time) etc etc. I'm fed up of all the false dawns.
If we had come 3rd last season, our start to this season wouldn't be looked at in amazement by the majority of our fans. We don't look like a team that would go well in the play-offs, or go well in the cup if we had a tough draw and thats all that matters. This isn't a league campaign like football where it doesn't matter how well you do as long as you get victories. In our league you have to get some victories but also show that you have the edge for knock out games. That we do not have, by a long shot

=blueI fail to see it as a choice that must be made. We have a few players not capable of the entertaining rugby we want, but we certainly have more than enough who are, we've seen them do it. We may not have the personnel capable of the kind of flowing stuff the top 2 play, but we play the dullest brand of rugby in SL. Something doesn't add up there if the Celtics and Salfords at the bottom of the table are still more varied and imaginative sides than us.