Re: Toulouse predictions : Sun May 28, 2017 7:13 pm  

Think we're being unfair to toulouse tbh. They're a good side and will beat most of the teams in this league playing like that. we must improve our own game hoever to make the qualifiers. Imo it can be done but it just got that bit more difficult today. Keep the faith lads

Re: Toulouse predictions : Sun May 28, 2017 9:12 pm  

We just keep doing the same things week in week out, poor ball retention and penalties at crucial times.
It all leads to disruption and no fluency.
Apart from the loss it's hardly entertaining.

Re: Toulouse predictions : Mon May 29, 2017 5:32 am  

faxcar wrote:

We just keep doing the same things week in week out, poor ball retention and penalties at crucial times.
It all leads to disruption and no fluency.
Apart from the loss it's hardly entertaining.

With respect mate, by 'doing the same things week in week out' Fax won their previous 7 games so it can't be that bad can it ? I was impressed by the way TO13 managed the game, something they weren't doing earlier in the season.

Re: Toulouse predictions : Mon May 29, 2017 7:36 am  

Toulouse are a good team, reputedly with a bigger budget and some good players. Yes Tangatas' effort should have gone to screen, but JWH' prob not a try. Watching yesterday was virtually a repeat of Fev game, slow play the ball giving opposition time to be up and tackle us shutting down our options plus some poor decisions. We missed Grady, tough game for Douglas.more speed around the ruck to give more options.

Re: Toulouse predictions : Mon May 29, 2017 8:20 am  

I think we got put in our place we are the 'best of the rest' and will most likely finish 5th due to not scoring enough points our scoring difference is way behind those above us, our only hope for 4th now is for Fev to have a bad run and it may hang on the game at their place?
Lets face it we are trying to compete with full time teams who have much bigger budgets, the lads tried hard we had a bit of an off day in defence yesterday which is normally our strongest area.

Re: Toulouse predictions : Mon May 29, 2017 9:10 am  

TheEnforcer273 wrote:

We didn't lose that because of the ref. He made a few mistakes yes, but some of them favoured us.

Our lack of direction in attack and half-arsed defence by half the team cost us. Murrell was a passenger at times.

One positive was Brandon Douglas who hit and ran hard.

From looking at our fixtures, if we don't improve fast then we could go on a depressing losing run.

I agree that overall Toulouse were the better team but the ball going dead off their player without referral, Tangata's effort and their try a couple of minutes later turned the game. JWH's try was another joke but by then the game was long gone.

Could we have won, yes, did we deserve to win, probably not.

We show enough for small chunks of the games to push most teams all the way but indiscipline at the moment is costing us dear, and all the extra effort may cost us come the end of the season.

Re: Toulouse predictions : Mon May 29, 2017 9:21 am  

sanjunien wrote:

With respect mate, by 'doing the same things week in week out' Fax won their previous 7 games so it can't be that bad can it ? I was impressed by the way TO13 managed the game, something they weren't doing earlier in the season.

With respect I'm not just talking about just the result.

We usually get the results against the middle to lower table sides most of the time but the poor ball retention, high penalty and tackle count against us is still there and has been all season.

It continues to be a problem and against the better sides gets exposed and costs us the result

We have little fluency because of it and take the pressure from the opposition and put it on ourselves.

Watching games where self inflicted defending and tackling and constantly dropping the ball in attack is the routine is as frustrating as it comes for me because if we could just cut it out and do the basics right we would be firmly in the mix and be a good side to watch to boot.

Re: Toulouse predictions : Mon May 29, 2017 2:31 pm  

This will be the 3rd season on the bounce where we have scored less points than the teams around us, its not hard to see where the problem lies.

For me that was the game we could not afford to lose which leaves us having to go to London and win which would be a major shock. If we beat London the top 4 is back on but if we lose then the 2 point gap to Fev may as well be 4 points because of our points difference and with the games we have still to play we will not make it up.

Re: Toulouse predictions : Mon May 29, 2017 2:42 pm  

Greg Florimos Boots wrote:

This will be the 3rd season on the bounce where we have scored less points than the teams around us, its not hard to see where the problem lies.

For me that was the game we could not afford to lose which leaves us having to go to London and win which would be a major shock. If we beat London the top 4 is back on but if we lose then the 2 point gap to Fev may as well be 4 points because of our points difference and with the games we have still to play we will not make it up.

Agreed. We saw yesterday what we have seen all season-too much spilt ball early in the tackle count and too many penalties to let teams off the hook. Mid and lower placed teams we get by with as they can't capitalise but better teams punish us as happened yesterday. Tolouse were good for their win and London won't be any easier next week as they also looked impressive against Fev.
I have always thought these two games would have a major bearing on our season and I'm afraid London is now a must win to keep in touch with the top four.

Re: Toulouse predictions : Tue May 30, 2017 9:24 am  

We are clueless in attack , but who is to blame for this the players or the coach.