Quote ="martin 1980"It was a fuuny game.
At the end of the day scoring 36 points you would expect to win but likewise conceding 36 you would expect to lose.
The biggest thing for me was again the attitude showed by the players. We went 14-0 and in previous years we would not have been able to come back from that. As long as the attitude and character remains the coaching staff and senior players returning will improve the sides defence over time, I'm sure. We have new defensive combinations on both edges at the moment and that it is never going to be easy and in Leeds and Saints we have played 2 sides with very good attacks.'"
Yeah the attitude of the players has been good so far and there seems to be a lot more belief in ourselves from the players. Without it we wouldnt have got a draw, and we would probably have conceded when defending those 5 sets on our line against Wakey which would have made the game very interesting.
Quote ="LifeLongHKRFan"I agree with most of the comments here but look how the game was played. We know our edge defence is not the greatest and saints knew that. Also Saints didn't want to get into a forward battle with us which is why they threw it out wide when ever possible. How many of their tries did they score up the middle? My point is that if our defence needs to tighten up its the backs where it needs to happen. Now we have a decent set of forwards I would like Sandercock to concentrate on the edge defence with the backs. Sort that out and we should have a good season. I'm sure Warrington will target our edges on Sunday and unless we sort the edges out then we will ship even more points than yesterday.'"
The forwards and the dominant performances seen so far are the most encouraging thing for me, something we havent really had before since returning to SL. Makes us a different proposition to other teams. And completely agree with the edge defence comments, in time hopefully it will come but this weekend we shall just have to
