Agree with all you have written, think Shift is good the yards too, as he is strong.

Mitch
Carlos
Sutcliffe
Swift

Looks a lot stronger than our current backs, but agreed better organisation and coaching needed to use our forwards more.

Walmsley & Paasi - 367m

Taylor, Evans, Satae, Fash, Lane, Johnstone, Longstaff, Laidlaw & Houghton - 332m

Just disgraceful

I'm 80 years old and just had an invitation to join the Walking Rugby team for a game against KR. I've politely turned it down as I didn't think I would be up to it. However, I saw lots of people yesterday who I could possibly have replaced. I would certainly have shown more urgency than these overpaid and under-achieving bunch.

I mentioned at the game that even in the first half hour when we were in the game the difference in go forward was noticable. Wherever Saints started their sets they pretty much always ended up in our 20 at worst whereas we just sort of plodded up field.
The speed at which they do everything is light years away from us, especially at the PTB.

That 21 minute period either side of halftime was the worst I've seen.

29 mins into the game it's 6-6 fast forward to 50 mins and it's 6-44.

Hodgson talks about fatigue as an excuse but at that point in the game, it shouldn't be a factor.

The crazy thing about that result is that you had your full strength spine playing, yet it seems you still had no structure or direction,

We could have had the Queensland spine yesterday and it wouldn't have made any difference because of how terrible our forwards were with the ball and the starting position of our sets, we were in the 'cage' all game after 25mins.

The surprise maybe that fans are surprised. We had a must win at Wakey and lost - shoite at Rovers ground and many others.
BH is not a head coach

Highlight of the match was Taylor running across the try line and getting pushed back after the Walker try....

Was disgraceful that. The guy is finished and should never play for the club again.

Spine is a problem and it looks like the whole spine will be changed next season, but I'm more worried about fitness and tactics than the spine.

He shouldn't be but he will be selected again on Friday, especially if Fash & Mitch do pick up bans.

The defensive “efforts” look even worse watching the highlights.

You must have a masochistic streak a mile wide to want to watch any of that again!

Nobody should be getting beaten on their outside for pace by Hurrell. LMS sidestepping the fullback to score was another lowlight.

Especially on a Monday morning!

I put the 1980 final on instead.

Some of the worse attempts were by people who we’ve renewed (Wynne), or looking to renew (Lovodua).

So much for clearing the squad out

There were several points as well where most of our forwards were walking back slowly to get into our line, it looked like there was nobody available to run the ball up or really obvious who would be taking the drive up and therefore incredibly easy for saints to defend against.

You’ve gone too far now!

You could just about list every player, Houghton, Connor, Longstaff and Satae make some shocking defence decisions and attempts, if you analysed every try I'm sure you could pick out every player.

It feels like when it starts to go wrong everyone loses faith in the men either side so they're caught in 2 minds rather than focusing on their job and trusting the others to do theirs.

Quite agree Dave but despite Hodgson being in the job nearly 2 years I have yet to see any real hard tangible evidence we have any of the things in your post I've put in bold.

On the field we are an absolute shambles and it beggars belief what they actually work on in training as watching the games its worse than watching a group of kids that have never played the game.
I don't buy Hodgsons excuse of fatigue either as is we are that fatigued before and just after halftime then there is something seriously wrong.

Its just no longer a surprise when the team serves up shambolic performances and teams must rub their hands at the prospect of facing us as we are just so predictable.

Hodgson for me is just not the right man for the job, you only have to look at Leeds to see the difference Rohan Smith (who is also an inexperienced head coach) has made to the way Leeds play in his short time at the club since replacing Agar with the same group of players.

The defeats are one thing but it is the manner of the defeats that are just inexcusable and indefensible and typical of the usual mid season nose dive we have seen for far too long now.

wonder how rovers will fare against the cheats on friday?

Bet they won’t give up like our lazy lot