The pack have to take the blame for what happened last night, destroyed from the first minute until the last. The line speed and aggression was non existent, and look feared to death of confrontation. Laffranchi is a second rower being asked to play prop, Puletua is work shy and lethargic unless we are 20 points up, and Josh Perry retired before he had put his head inside a Saints shirt. If the lads give 100%, and put in everything they've got for 80 minutes I have no problem, but to lie down and die in the manner they did last night is quite simply unacceptable, and I for one will not accept that sort of performance. Last night was an embarrement to the club, and they deserve all the stick that's coming to them.
Take nothing away from Huddersfield, their forwards ran in hard with so much more aggression than we did, and when they got into dangerous positions, they used an offloading game that we quite simply couldn't handle. Brough and Robinson were kicking and playing on the front foot all the time, and the pressure Wellens, Makinson and Meli were under was ridiculous. We had no field position whatsoever, and Lomax and Gaskell had no platform to create anything.
The fact that certain individuals couldn't even face us lot in the West says it all, a couple came close to the 20m line, but not one of them looked us in the eye after that performance. I expect to arrive at the Stobart next week to see a Saints team biting at the bit to get out there and prove a point - and that's exactly what they have to do.
