Cruncher wrote:
When you put it that way, it looks as if the problems are much more fundamental than having a few crap players who aren't trying very hard.
Of course, as things are, we have more than a few crap players, and even the ones who aren't crap aren't trying very hard. But all the things you mention are noticeable. We look totally disorganised - those passes to ground yesterday were terrible - give away constant back-to-back penalties (which few others teams do) and seem to lose our heads immediately when things are tough. The way we collapsed in 10 minutes yesterday was exactly like the second half at Castleford and the second half at Wakefield (none of which sides are anything special at all). At present, we have a team who could be ahead by 30 points and I wouldn't be certain of victory until a minute from the end.
I think that's right - at the moment we have fundamental problems in how we attack and defend, the net result of which are poor communication, errors, awful discipline and a soft underbelly, which means we are eminently beatable if the opposition get some momentum regardless of the scoreboard. I was quite happy when Lam joined as coach, but we can't carry on like this regardless of the hand he's been dealt with respect to recruitment. I've no idea why he's been unable to improve our attack while maintaining the high defensive standards from last year. I'd expect a coach schooled in the NRL to at least improve our attack, Wane didn't exactly set the bar that high. It's all very disappointing so far from coach and players - let's just hope we can pick up some points over the next month, if we lose the next four, I honestly don't see how the club could stick with him.
