It was a more positive performance, especially considering that we're now missing White, Talau, Myler and Wilshere. Apart from a couple of lapses in concentration that led to some simple tries, the defensive effort was better.
I thought we looked good when we moved the ball about a bit in the opening 15-20 minutes but we're still too slow in doing what we want to do meaning teams can get their defence back into position before we get the ball wide. We seemed to revert back to 5 drives and a kick after conceding a couple of tries and then just started gifting position to Saints early in the tackle count; failing to find touch from a penalty, Alker kicking out on the full from the optional restart and Nash knocking on twice in a row I think.
Fitzy performed a lot better than last week and his positioning in general was better and he was looking for the ball in attack, although he did let a couple of high kicks bounce again.
Smith's kicking game improved but I don't know if that could just be attributed to the weather rather than technique as I think that it was a little windy out there.
Big Phil has looked our best player so far this year - I thought he didn't have too good a second half of the season last year but he seems to have slimmed a little and he's making a lot of metres.
Our turnout wasn't great but we were in good voice for the majority of the game. Saints fans seemed disinterested - they weren't even complaining about forward passes and offsides and I think they made more noise when someone caught the ball in the half time challenge than they did when someone scored a try.
I thought we looked good when we moved the ball about a bit in the opening 15-20 minutes but we're still too slow in doing what we want to do meaning teams can get their defence back into position before we get the ball wide. We seemed to revert back to 5 drives and a kick after conceding a couple of tries and then just started gifting position to Saints early in the tackle count; failing to find touch from a penalty, Alker kicking out on the full from the optional restart and Nash knocking on twice in a row I think.
Fitzy performed a lot better than last week and his positioning in general was better and he was looking for the ball in attack, although he did let a couple of high kicks bounce again.
Smith's kicking game improved but I don't know if that could just be attributed to the weather rather than technique as I think that it was a little windy out there.
Big Phil has looked our best player so far this year - I thought he didn't have too good a second half of the season last year but he seems to have slimmed a little and he's making a lot of metres.
Our turnout wasn't great but we were in good voice for the majority of the game. Saints fans seemed disinterested - they weren't even complaining about forward passes and offsides and I think they made more noise when someone caught the ball in the half time challenge than they did when someone scored a try.
