So what happened?

So what happened?

Thought McKinnon had a real good game barring his brain fart for the Cockhead try. His break down the right wing was brilliant, again he just needed a bursting support runner and we would have scored off that.

I thought we were well in control until McKinnon's inexplicable cock up, but still look like we lack any cohesion in attack whatsoever.

We made easy yards and dominated field position, but lacked any real idea in the opposition 20. Obviously the conditions were a factor in that, but we'll need to learn to convert pressure into points if we're going to beat anyone decent.

Sharp was excellent and I thought Whiting well and truly proved those who said he couldn't defend in the middle of the park wrong.

No... Under 10's to Under 17/18's. Before open age, then I did my leg in so gave it up, biggest regret of my life.

I may have been a little judgmental, but what do you expect when we've had 4 years of it, and this season so far is how we finished last season, at least last season we was putting 40's 50's and 60's against the dross at the bottom of the table. I honestly cannot see past a season of struggle tbh. Defense ain't going to win us things/get us anywhere this season, we need attack, attack is the best form of defense, we should not need to have to defend constantly, good teams don't defend, they attack! and defend when they need too.

I thought Ellis did well. Decent distribution from dummy half, a few decent kicks (one absolute belter), and some good tackles as well. Should keep his place for next week IMO.

I hope more fans start to understand the idea that this season is a season of transition, and it will take time for success.

We seem to have a lot of fans who treat every victory as a signal to get their Grand Final tickets booked, and every defeat as a disaster that must lead to the coach being sacked...people need to realise that not only are we in transition, but SL is getting more and more competitive and we are going to have a few shock defeats (and hopefully some shock wins) along the way.

I've said all along that I am happy with a 6th-8th finish this year, so long as we show that we can't beat the big sides on the day (particularly in a CC/Playoff tie) make some good signings for 2013 and generally show we are building to reach the Top4 again.

Oh dear...

You might need another go at your maths here

Well, here we have it folks. World champs build success on defense, Australia build success on their defense, but we should scrap that idea and all will be well. Give P. Gentle a call and tell him, he might listen!

McKinnon reminds me of Blacklock, really good at reading the game and spotting gaps and will get a lot of tries out of nowhere...but likely to have some errors that leave us scratching our heads.

On his run down the touchline in front of the East Stand for example, not a lot of players would have attempted that in the wet (far to easy to be pushed in to touch) but it came off for him, and if we had someone supporting him we'd have probably scored from it.

Thing is, unfortunately a lot of fans don't understand this. With comments like "well Rovers have a new coach and look at them" it's going to take more then a few weeks for sceptic fans to come around.

The only point we won this season based on defense was wire, and they should have won that.

Clinging on against Wakefield @ home, Clinging on against Harlequins @ Home and getting turned over against Salford despite dominating in possession says it all either i'm off my rocker, or some people cannot see through their rose tinted specs.

I think he's a cleverer player then Blacklock, but I agree with what you're saying. Again great to see him and Seymour trying out things between them.

Spot on. Think some people are expecting far too much too quickly. As long as I see areas of improvement most weeks I'll be happy this year.

Maybe he thought somebody wasn't pulling their weight?

Enough said Buddy..

Yes, you are. You clearly know sod all about rugby.

Are you going to do another online petition?

I wanted agar out like everyone else when I did that petition...

Were playing crap rugby league at the moment, fact..

the rivalry with Rovers clouds a lot of fans opinions too, obviously I enjoy it when we win and they lose, but I'd take finishing below them this season if it means I am watching a Top4 side regularly making finals in 2/3 years time.

Whereas some fans would be delighted with us finishing 7th and Rovers 8th when really that means nothing in the grand scheme of things.

I don't think things are too bad at all. The defence is quite good, and we don't seem to have a problem making yards. Our discipline could still be improved, but seemed a little better today. The main area we need to improve is in our goal line attack. I'm hoping Seymour has a fair bit of improvement left in him and that drier weather and game time will help matters.

I think Gentle hit the nail on the head in his interview. At times we were too close to the line and it hindered us, we should have played with a deeper line on those occasions. As for Seymour, I partly agree we still need to see yet more from him, but he was involved in both scores today. He was very quick to spot the opportunity for the first especially, and got himself over to the other side of the play quickly because Horne had taken the ball in.

This...

I agree with Rock God x

Bob on. Last 10 aside that was one of our most dominant displays for a fair while.