credit to the fans who went and supported the ream. Credit to the players as I imagine it has been a tough week . That said even with all the players fit we are trying to play a style of Rugby that as a whole the team is simply not technically good enough to carry out. We are trying to play open attractive rugby, as a result we are making handling errors, not completing our sets and handing over the ball in good field position for the other side. The coaching staff have got to now start preparing for the middle eight and that means going back to the basics, we have to play simple no mistakes Rugby untill we get into the final third of the field, that means lots of scoots from dummy half and one out rugby when we are bringing the ball out of defence. Back that up with a simple kicking game of kicking deep and chasing hard. Only play Rugby when in the final third, always take the two points on offer from penalties. This simple game plan should also be able to be understood by the players as I think they are confused with the system we are trying to play at the moment which is leading to some very poor decision making. In McShane, Smith, Ali, Sammut and Godinet we have players who can cause problems when near the lin.
The players are also struggling to understand whatever our defensive plan is, I watched the Huddersfield game from behind the posts and to be honest at times we looked amateurish , there was no structure and players looked lost. Again get back to basics and get some passion, desire and agression back into our defence. We have no line speed in defence we are moving a couple of paces and stopping we have got to change this, we have several poor one on one defenders who need to be told that they have to leg tackle.
The lads are doing it tough with the injury situation and I admire their courage but unless the coaching staff need to get us back to basics. Our defence is letting in 30 odd points a match, we have to change, its not to late.
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