Very poor display from us today, we didnt do the little things right and turned the ball over far too cheaply...
After their first drop goal effort, we decided to give them the back back around the half way mark with first Laffranchi then Gaskell coughing the ball up when we should have been respecting it not throwing stupid offloads.
Moving Lance to 9, Roby to 13 and Gaskell to 6 was a mistake imo, we lost direction round the park due to the inexperience of the halves and nullified our 2 best attacking options (other than Meli) up to that point with Roby moving away from the ruck and also Lance made a couple of good line breaks form first receiver.
Our defence looked too easily broken and for all the Jon Wilkin critics I think today highlighted how much graft he does get through when he plays. Between him and Sia it must be an average of about 80 tackles a game that we need to make up for and the guys coming in didnt do enough to compensate for this.
Our kicking game is non existent, and for some reason thought it would be a consistently good idea to put the ball high up in the air to Fox and Mathers and not have anybody challenging them to try to win the ball.
Moan over, I think the Wire game took a lot out of the tank for us (especially the defence we had to get through on our own line in the first 20 mins) and we looked tired. TP looks to be carrying an injury and if so he needs to be rested until fit as he doesnt look anywhere near as effective at the start of the season. I would rather have this dip in form now than in 4 weeks and we have got time now to pick ourselves back up and build momentum for the playoffs. If Roby has broken his hand and is done for the season it will be a massive blow for us, although Lomaskell in the halves got us to a GF last year and people have been calling for them all season to play so maybe that will give us a chance to see if they were right. We wrote ourselves off last season and then ended up beating Wigan twice in the playoffs to make the GF again so I wouldnt say season over just yet, we just need to learn from our mistakes today and work to correct them for Cas on Friday.
COYS