Staffs FC wrote:
Well done Salford played very well tonight against a pretty poor opposition on the night. As much as anything it was leadership that was missing. Some lead and others follow and we had too many of the latter on show. Be interesting to see how the selection goes should we get back to anything like full fitness. There's some in there on borrowed time in my view particularly defensively.
It's not defensively that's the problem. Its the brains. We're the dumbest team in the league. We keep doing stupid stupid shiz. Then we give dumb pens. Then we get gassed out. Then we make handling errors again and defend again whilst on empty.
In the first sets last night we made great metres and their contact was off. We go 6 up. We're going ok. Then get a pen. Kill our own momentum by going for 2 (1st error)
Then they get momentum. We make some errors. Concede some pens. Go 6.10 behind. Finally get some ball again...put a kick in on the 3rd (whhhhaaat
) then double up with a pen. They score another. Later in game same thing happens.
Just before ht mini. On our own line tries an impossible offload tackle 1 whilst down to 12. So then concede another which truly ended the game. So stupid as a team it's untrue.
Now I'm not bashing radFord here but how is his team doing this every week? Some of the stupid things we do are not coached. He surely is drilling it into then to smarten up every week yet he's being ignored
What's bothering me now is weve been average all year. You can igore we were near top of the table. Our superior team sheet took care of that. I said before wigan the table was lieing to us.
Last night was the 1st good team we've played...As in top end..in form and fit without loads out etc and the result is we've nearly had 60 on us at home
If from absolutely nowhere we can suddenly find form we'll be ok this month. If not we'll be in for some more beltings
July last year (semi) was the last time this team put in a real all round performance in. That bothers me tbf. Only beat the 2 poor team in the 8s. Capitulated the LLS on our patch v understrength wire. Not been convincing this yr. We'd of lost a couple more if not for Kelly. All the time having 1 of the best squads.
All is not as dramatic as my ramblings here may make it seem tbh. It's only a few percent off here n there tbf. But I don't like the sheer length of time we're taking to show something like our best again. Easter set the foundations of everything that was good last year. Hopefully same this