moto748 wrote:
Are we not brave enough to play Shorrocks at 13 and O'Neill at 9? Maybe swap KPP and Bateman (if available)?
On current form that would seem quite a sensible suggestion
Will be interesting to see Peet’s reaction.
I was hoping for a positive response to the Toulouse debacle but it wasn’t to be.
I cannot comment on tonight as I haven’t seen the game but suspect the main problem is our lack of pace in defence and lack of power generally.
We are slow in the extreme. Defensively very poor. As a club who prided itself on defence we have become easy. Toulouse scroring 20+ got my alarm bells ringing.
I accept we are work in progress but yet another zip is pretty embarrassing.
For me the main issue is an unbalanced squad with a shortage of real quaily players in key positions basically across the piece. The future potentially looks exceptionally bright but currently too many players in key positions who probably aren’t good enough.
The backrow of Farrell, Bateman and Isa is too lightweight. One from three is acceptable, two from three is doable with a big front row but three from three is second tier.
I predict Leyth in the CC and let’s see what that brings.
Disappointed but not overly surprised. Hopefully we can respond against Cas.
