Not much to be said.
They have too many good strong players in the M/F and once they got a sniff our judgement ,disposal and overall attack on the ball just fell away.
They are just a class above us. At least we now know.
Every time we chip it around in the backline it ends badly. Maybe we have no other options.
We've been drinking our own bathwater with quite a few players but to look for positives Payne at least might be able to hold down a spot , Rayner never gives up and was the one player who tried to make something happen all night , Oscar tried his heart out (sans Gawn ) .
McCluggage got in there often ,getting possession and just got monstered by 2 or or 3 tacklers.
They showed us the intensity required to be a Premiership contender. Tonight we were nowhere near it . I keep hearing about our elite forward line. There's a lot more to forward play than just kicking goals. Tackling and chasing come to mind.
Not to worry. We need to address our lack of bulls around the ball and that could take more than this season to work it out.
And why we kept kicking it to Lever with no one on him don't even ask.
They have too many good strong players in the M/F and once they got a sniff our judgement ,disposal and overall attack on the ball just fell away.
They are just a class above us. At least we now know.
Every time we chip it around in the backline it ends badly. Maybe we have no other options.
We've been drinking our own bathwater with quite a few players but to look for positives Payne at least might be able to hold down a spot , Rayner never gives up and was the one player who tried to make something happen all night , Oscar tried his heart out (sans Gawn ) .
McCluggage got in there often ,getting possession and just got monstered by 2 or or 3 tacklers.
They showed us the intensity required to be a Premiership contender. Tonight we were nowhere near it . I keep hearing about our elite forward line. There's a lot more to forward play than just kicking goals. Tackling and chasing come to mind.
Not to worry. We need to address our lack of bulls around the ball and that could take more than this season to work it out.
And why we kept kicking it to Lever with no one on him don't even ask.