Quote ="OFFTHECUFF"The game is about winning games and alot of these knobs need to look at themselfs.Big time charlies like Allen,Pickers, and I,Anson where poop.Thacks dummys too much for my liking.'"
I think you are being overly harsh there. I didn't see one player not try yesterday. None of them wanted to be one the losing side!
To me l'Anson just doesn't look fit. I don't mean in a huff and puff kind of way either but in terms of his actual movement. He looked awkward a couple of times and I'm not sure whether he's fully comfortable with his knee being out there to take the knocks yet. He probably needs to build some confidence that a tackle won't mean a year long lay off.
I can understand the criticism that Pickersgil is getting too but I think he desperately wants to make an impact and unfortunately at the moment he's going about it the wrong way. You could see all the props busting a gut to try and make an impact when they came on and in his case Pickers channeled it wrong.
In Thacks' defence, he started well but he soon reverted to the mentality that he needed to try and win the game himself and I put that down to the fact that again he was left without a suitable foil at SH. He does seem to burden the weight of expectation going forward and tries to do it all himself. In the second half there were one or two opportunities where maybe he should have given the pass but he does score some good tries with the show-and-go.
I'm in complete agreement with you that Gilmore should be on the bench though if Gore is still injured.
