I hope he does, I fear he doesn't have the guts though.

I fear this too. We need to try our fringe players out, the earlier the better. What better chance then at home when our some of out starting 17 are in bad form/injured.

in hindsight he should have tried sone of them yesterday, seems ome more "senior" players were a bit complacent.

Although be fair to Crusaders, they appear to have played well too.

Oh hindsight eh! But I agree, sounds like Crusaders played really well.

You can analise this until the cows come home. It's only one game. Crusaders will upset a lot of teams this season.

Funny that they did a number on Dull FC, though!

I'd stick to worrying about Melbourne if I were you, oh and Wakey, oh and Cas

Let us see how Dull you look in the WCC

Not as funny as what Wakey and Cas did to you was, however.

Looking forward to the WCC are you?

I certainly am looking forward to the WCC !!



And as for all of this "the country is behind you" crap, I hope that Melbourne hammer Leeds out of site !!

Same here. I'm going on Sunday so I will thoroughly enjoy listening to the disgruntled Rhino fans when Greg Inglis walks in his 5th of the game.

Good post. It's still very early days and in truth nobody knows how good Crusaders are.

The forwards as a whole were matched by theirs to be honest !, Fitz was as usual awesome and Ogre ran harder than ever, Manu was exhausted at the end as was Berro, the rest were ok, in the backs we went AWOL I am afraid apart from full back and Briscoe who worked hard all day!
Whiting had some great runs with no back up and continues to look solid, however..
Horne was embarrassing.
Yeaman looked lost .
Hall was awful again especially in defence.

tons of effort but lacking any kind of thought process in the middle.. could have been much worse if not for the tackling of Berro and Fitz

They certainly did matey, in fact looked a very organised and committed team, everyone worked very hard in defence ( noble again) and in attack we had no answer for their pivots!!
they deserved the win, it wasnt a fluke !!

absolutely looking forward to it , how about you ?

oh thats right your not in it are you ?

This is a game between the CHAMPIONS of super league and the NRL and as such will be of no interest to yourselves now or at anytime in the foreseeable future .

Enjoy your massive game against the mighty Harlequins wont you



Altogether now Agar out ! Agar out !

Can't be true. Everyone's been telling me we have the best pack in SL

Just seen tries on 'Boots n all', so sloppy, and so defendable!!!

I'd disagree with GU thought our pack was on the front foot.

I do agree our pack was the stronger. The problem was simply lack of ideas about how to get over the whitewash. In the end no pressure was being built and when frustration set in and the clock was ticking away we ended up panicking.

Agreed none of which can be put down to the pack, they did there job it was the backs who let us down barring Tansey.

The pack helped us get down field I agree.

However when attacking the line what are the halves and Tansey supposed to do if the rest of the team are stood still offering nothing for them to work with?

Thats true, I have never seen so many players receiving the ball stood still.

Its a fair point Paul but they was nobody out there calling the plays, the forwards probably didn't know which way the ball was coming or who was going to be the dummy runner.

I did notice a few times we had overlaps but just went for kick through or Horne dropped his shoulder.

A massive part of a half back's job.

I take your points but too many times Washy and Horne had to go it alone as they had zero options. Yes Long would have organised them better but Horne never has or will be an organiser and it was Washy's first game. The forwards did not even stand deep or look like they were going to make a run.

The defeat is the team's fault not Washy's or Horne's.