If you sit in the stands around the half way line you obviously get a good side on view.
Again it is so obvious that the two markers virtually do nothing and concede yards at the play the ball.
Along with that our line speed, if you can call it that consists of taking two slow steps forward and a sort of little jump into the air like a set of morris dancers.
These two elements alone give so much space to the oppositon it's unreal, wether it is a dummy half run or quick pass to the first receiver we are never in there faces they just run through the line getting free field position.
It was the likes of Fev that would get on top of us because of this but now most sides are benefitting from it.
The only time we seem to show any aggression and real effort in this area is on the rare occasion that we get the opposition pinned near their own goal line and then we might pile in for a couple of plays, as anyone else noticed that these rare occasions are getting even rarer.
This is what has me really concerned that we can't even get basic marker and line defense right and when we concede the yards we do conceding the try's soon follow.
We have been a bit hit and miss for a while now but we look like a set of total strangers that have not played together before.
There's got to be more to it than meets the eye, is it the daft timing of the contracts again or something else, something is definately not right.
