I thought for first 30 mins of game we looked to have a bit more structure with the ball even using a dummy runner on various occasions to put people in space. Hopefully that is the way we are heading under Kevin.
Last 10/15 mins of first half saw us having no ball and having to do too much defending which took it's toll in 2nd half along with losing Delaney (yet again) and Ward (yet again) how much longer is this going to go on for? Weekly we are left short handed by same players going off.
Personally I'm not going to criticise the halves or backs but the pack is soft. Too many times Cas forwards had 3 or 4 defenders on them and still wasn't put to ground. Junior Moors had a field day against us (yet again).
Ward is our only forward who can break the line, if he can stay on the field, he is a super player and a big strong running 2nd rower to go with him is a priority. Maybe Cam Smith can be that man but we will see.
I'm sure Cuthbo was playing to instruction but if you tip the ball on every time you have it the object is defeated. He has to be a running threat also.
Mikolaj has been great all year but dropped too much ball today. He's still young and days like today will happen. Garbutt is our best prop and is badly missed when missing but he is missing far too often and this cannot continue.
The pack needs some changes asap. They are too weak and fragile and far too many are simply not good enough or are past it now.
I would like to comment on Liam Sutcliffe who gets criticised on the terraces quite a lot and probably rightly so. His pass for Briscoe's, who had a great game i thought, 2nd try was superb and showed again the talent Sutty has but for too long this lad has been praised publically at least by the club. In my opinion he needs a rocket putting up his backside. He's played over 100 times now, he's not a youngster and it's time he stepped up and started performing. He has some talent and he needs to start producing.
Finally things need to change from the warm up on. We stroll out for 10 mins which involves the backs stood out for half of it passing a ball between themselves. Ryan Sheridan is out with Cas kickers 45 mins b4 kick off practising all types of kicks, 40-20s and short kicks as well as goal kicks. Is there any wonder their kicking game is far superior to ours and they score far more tries than we do from kicks???
There was some positives today but the negatives far outweighed them but Sinfield will get things moving I have no doubt.
