Re: Catalans v London : Sun Aug 18, 2019 10:23 am
trinity374 wrote:
You're probably right Avenger.
I clung onto the injury crisis hoping all would be ok when players returned, but despite some returning things have actually got worse.
It's a bit of a puzzle really because, after the initial London debacle, we did play some outstanding rugby and looked a top 3 team .
The team now really bears little resemblance to what we hoped would be on the park for the season, but the players we put out are good enough to give other teams a game but have not played to the required standard. We lack attacking ideas and our defence has been pathetic. Unfortunately these were not the odd one off below level performances but regular.
You could argue there was a little improvement in the last game BUT Hull were woeful really.
I'm not a coach so don't know the answer but there is a lot to support money motivation as has been suggested on here before.
I clung onto the injury crisis hoping all would be ok when players returned, but despite some returning things have actually got worse.
It's a bit of a puzzle really because, after the initial London debacle, we did play some outstanding rugby and looked a top 3 team .
The team now really bears little resemblance to what we hoped would be on the park for the season, but the players we put out are good enough to give other teams a game but have not played to the required standard. We lack attacking ideas and our defence has been pathetic. Unfortunately these were not the odd one off below level performances but regular.
You could argue there was a little improvement in the last game BUT Hull were woeful really.
I'm not a coach so don't know the answer but there is a lot to support money motivation as has been suggested on here before.
But did we play some outstanding rugby though?! I put on here a while back for people to come up with games that we won comfortably, when we really nailed it in both attack and defence.......well I could only come up with 3! Leeds away, even though we let late tries in, Hull away, and Wigan at home. But now, those performances were probably 'helped' by the form of Leeds & Wigan at that time. Chester in his interviews keeps saying he and MC knows the reasons behind the poor form, then never elaborates on this, unless he simply means the injuries we have had, but that ain't gonna wash with most fans, it has to go deeper than that.......
