Shifty Cat wrote:
It's a similar game to a few we've played this season. Too many errors and penalties, but then we play some class RL when we cut them out. On Lino, he's a frustrating player to watch because he has games where he's man of the match, or at least plays well and then he has the odd game like today where it looks like he's coming back from a year off. Anyway, a win's a win but even taking into account that it's only 7 games into the season, the team will still be gelling. Plus most of the overseas missed pre-season, so we should generally be getting a bit better each game but IMO we've been a bit inconsistent with the quality of our RL so far.
On Lino he is frustrating but I think it’s more accurate to say his good performances are few and far between and he’s generally middling at best. I just don’t get him at all. I’ve never known a player have so much space in front and to the side of him yet step into the only players close to him. He did it a few times today and it’s just bizarre.
I still think his issue is that he’s running it too close to the line and putting himself under some real pressure situations and his sporadic passing are because he’s just too close to the line.
Job done today but we were very loose and error strewn.
Toulouse couldn’t handle the forwards and we just needed to be more direct that first half but instead of having forward after forward hitting the line we just threw long passes out to the edges and put ourselves under pressure without earning the right down the middle first (similar to Batley).
Forwards rescued that game today and Rodwell was very good last quarter he really put in some monster carries.
