Very dissapointed tonight, but I'll resist jumping on the Agar out bandwagon. I know there are a lot of Dywer fans on this forum and he is certainly a player with an eye for the gap, but to me that is all he is. His passing, and to a lesser extent Leemings, is schoolboy level. When people complain that the halves aren't taking control it's worth remembering that to do their job properly they have to get the ball when they want it and with some expectation that it won't be flying round their head or skidding of the deck. It's boring, basic stuff, but it wins games.

Obviously a poor performance. I think we will be OK this year but we also can’t afford complacency and a return to the post-Furner season.

Said it before but the most important aspect of this season will be our retention and recruitment for next year.

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Some very miserable people on here tonight! Didn't watch it but it must hve been awful to get such hatred towards Agar considering there has generally been goodwill towards him and team in our worst injury crisis of the decade!

I'll be forgiving for one awful performance given the injury crisis, the great energy/efforts in the last few weeks, and some time to get returnees back up to speed/in the right position. But it sounds like we definitely need to work on our last tackle plays!

It’s the same after every loss on here.

Ive not seen the game and it sounds like we were awful, it will be interesting to see how the team react next week

Didn’t watch, sounds like I am lucky. Is it possible that those who have played the last two weeks were just knackered after the exertions, and those brought in were not at the races as they’ve not featured this year so far?

I thought Mellor was much improved. . On playing players out of position which ones other than Handley did also?

thats a bit logical though kr haven't been doing nothing for 2 weeks

I wondered when squad was announced if it was too many changes with not match fit players.

There are some massive knee jerk reactions in here. Pele slating the team for poor last tackle options when the is the first time this season we have had two people even vaguely resembling half backs playing. Tonight, one hadn't played half back for a year, the other hasn't played rugby in a year, and not played RL in a decade. To the people who are saying what do they work on all week in training your really have no idea how professional sport works. Your can't get a second row on extra kicking practice for a fortnight and expect him to be Matty Johns. The likes of sinfield and gale spend years and years doing practice, practice and more practice.

In a world where a poor kick means a 20m restart and a 7 tackle set, I can see why a powerplay is chosen

It is about having a plan on the last and we do not have one

Some definitely looked jaded, Prior in particular. Bright spots for me were Oledski (starting to look the business week on week), Mellor (ran hard and tackled hard),and Broadbent (only on for twenty minutes but dangerous every time he touched the ball.) Not going to say Eastmond was a positive but I'm not writing him off yet. Dropped his shoulder and had a go a couple of times in the second and looked good. It's a confidence thing with him. Hurrell ran hard for lots of metres. Should have played him at right centre.