Game 3: Huddersfield Home

Few observations.

Brown is a tool, fecki g terrible tool for what he did.

We need to swap things around and get Inu in for Welham.

PP is OK for me but why are we passing him the ball when he's stood still on the last do or die set? Terrible game management. It's easy (as an ex player of some considerable girth) give me the ball on a full pelt charge and I'm a handful, give it me ambling in and I get bossed.

Sio, I'm sorry he needs sacking, his Billy Ray Sio mullet is not acceptable on any level.

Sarg looks like he's on speed running the ball out but he's wasted doing so, he gets the ball 1st/2nd play and he's not as potent at the business end of the set.

Pack look aimless, I honestly would have thought Brown was more of an organiser than that.

Evalds, class, so glad we've tied him down to another contract.

Seizer I rate highly, I think he'll do a he who shall not be named anymore did last year eventually, he just didn't do it tonight.

Turgid game totally bereft of entertainment, hardly a spectacle to entice floaters next week.

Just seen a stat watching the game back. I’m the first half we had 57% possession. We had 36 more carries than them.

But we went in at half time losing. And even more amazingly only ran 20 metres more than them. How is that even possible??

This is ridiculous and wrong, sleep it off and come back tomorrow

Some comments :-

One man Rugby will cost us thousands on the gate.   Shocking to watch.

Sio - must learn to side step off his right foot as an incomplete winger thus far - try @ Saints plus 3 tonight went begging.

No depth to our attack - far too many just standing around awaiting the next bargefest.    Need to be deeper with players running onto the ball.

Brown will probably miss next week after his daft butt which cost us the game when Childs reversed his decision.

Man of the Match = Luke Robinson who was on the field longer than Connor Jones.

Watched it on tv.
Pauli Pauli criticism is harsh. He played big minutes and contributed well. Not sure his positional play was great but he didn’t cost us the game.
I thought Child was conned for the final penalty.
Huddersfield will do ok this year,best for a few years.
It was hard fought,we had an early casualty and hung in there.
If,as has been suggested,Inu is not training well,there’s no discussion to be had. We need a kicker so ,if Inu isn’t up to it then Chamberlain must be in the squad.
Can’t drop Welham so,sadly, I’d replace Rhys Williams,but only because we need to create space for a goal kicker,so he’d be unlucky.
Joey going through a difficult phase but class will always come through.
Don’t panic !

We have lacked one major thing so far this year - structure. In attack and defence. Hope it comes soon because it’s not a small thing in rugby, nor a big thing, it is critical.

It’s three games in so without being accused of doom and gloom can we be honest that we are seriously lacking creativity and, especially further out, some structure? We are having to try and squeeze the majority of efforts in at the corner because we can’t seem to break down defences. How many breaks or even offloads have we had? Very few.

I’d prefer to see Inu in if fit as at least he has an offload in his game. I’d seriously considering including Flash as well especially if Brown gets a ban and Atkin comes in.

I’m sure the attack would look much better if the pack provides a platform for them to do their thing but there seem to be a lot of grafters with no yards/tackle busts/offloads in them. They need to step up.