I'm personally offended by how bad that performance was.
If I hear one more person say "oh well it's only round 1" I'll scream. The fact that its round 1 does not excuse the fact that we've squandered two points at home to Widnes.
I can't even begin to describe how awful that was. Lovell, Kaufusi, Howell particularly wretched. After Gower went off we looked even more clueless, which I didn't think was possible after the first 40 minutes. Terrible atmosphere. Whose ideas was it to let Widnes fans sit on the east stand halfway line? Apparently we had a good pre-season, though I couldn't see any trace of it here. This idea that Widnes were awful - utter codswallop. They completed their sets and accomplished the basics, and made very few errors. We barely completed a set, knock-ons aplenty. Embarrassing. Humiliating.
Absolute rubbish from beginning to end. It feels like its going to be a long season.
About sums up my feelings - just about everything wrong. Atmosphere was awful (possibly our fault we did little shouting, though not much to shout about.
i went to Perpignan and the team played well and i was feeling very positive........... Problem lays with the forwards, we dont create a base at all - Widnes may be limited but they stuck to an effective game plan, made hardly any mistakes wehereas we - penalties were atrocious (and they had Roby in Perpignan so they knew he would be hot on laying on), handling errors etc etc. Lovell isnt a centre and shouldnt be there - but Channing is too small, JO'C seems to be going backwards.
dorn and Dixon only ones who can really hold their heads up - Bryant, Rodney, Bailey did OK. Chad's article in the programme interesting and seemed to suggest that mentally on match day last year team were not right - well that certainly happened this game!
Fear the worst for next week?
