That game was lost in the selection for the starting line up.
Ever since the coaching masterstroke of playing Hughes at standoff in the Cup final price has been obsessed with throwing swerve balls
Naming Ratch at 1 and Inglis at 3 today and then starting the game the other way round really had Watson puzzled.
Forget the fact that we had the smallest wing / centre partnership with a new second row combination against Sezer / Edwards and Lutele. That side destroyed King, Mamo and Thewlis.
And then on the other side we had a new edge combination.
It took Price 35 minutes and 3 unanswered tries before he figured out what had gone wrong.
I still cannot get over the incompetence of starting the season with King on the left edge knowing full well that when inglis gets fit he will start at left centre and King will switch. Why not allow King to start the season at right centre to build combinations with Hughes, Austin and Charnley.
There used to be a channel 4 series called faking it where they would train a sheep shearer to work in Tony & Guy. I think we are in a similar social experiment whereby we have a total imposter at the helm
I have nothing against any of the player's, there was enough on the pitch to do a job tonight but just swap a second rower for another back rower. The experiment and mind games didn't work.