Had a chance to look through. A couple of points to be made on this one. As a team:
1) 16 errors. 16. In 30odd degree heat, we come up with 16 errors. I'm a little in disbelief at this, it's quite frankly ridiculous. In a game where ball retention is key we hand it over easily so often and wonder what went wrong. It's not even like it was 1 person had a shocker either, it was across the board.
2) hand in hand with 1) a total tackle count of 371 is our second highest of the year (only vs Leeds at LP did we tackle more with 401) - doing more defensive work in the heat is always going to cost you at the end of the game. That said, 371 is only the upper end of average for super league as a whole, and even in the heat it can hardly be called a huge effort. It raises serious questions over whether fitness is an issue (especially when you consider 2 players made around 25% of the tackles for us!)
3) as I said, nobodies stats are particularly great, but none of them are particularly bad either. If I was forced to pull players out, Manu, walmsley and jones would probably where I point the finger. That said, they all have in common the fact they've been out for the last few weeks - was it a mistake bringing so many back for the game considering it was in the heat?
4) talking of which, what the frock was the point of Percival on the bench?
5) looking at roby's stats for a minute. This is the 5th time Roby has made more than 50 tackles this season, we've lost 3 of them. I believe that's more than coincidence - WE HAVE TO FIND AN INTERCHANGE FOR ROBY!
6) I find this team so incredibly frustrating, more so than any saints team I have ever watched I think. I believe that we have the quality to make a real push this year. Yet time and time again attitude/ choking let us down. I still believe we can win it, but week on week who knows what team will turn up - is there a more Jekyll and Hyde team than us at the moment ever in superleague? (Of course this may change in the next 2 weeks) - I'm incredibly frustrated though coming into 2 really big games, we could of had a comfortable cushion to help us through and we squandered it so pitifully. Is it coaching? Is it an attitude problem in camp? I just don't understand.
7) Thompson should be immune to all criticism this week. Incredible effort for a guy so young in the pack - if only more could emulate him.