Disappointing afternoon and performance. We've had a run of very tough fixtures in recent weeks and we've been playing at full capacity at times. Today looked like a game too far for us, both collectively and individually.

Defensively, we made far too many errors and misreads which will always be punished against high-class opposition and so it proved. You cannot give that level of opportunity when playing a champion side and expect to get away with it.
In attack, we simply struggled to gain any decent territory in order to put them under sustained pressure and we didn't ask enough questions of their very well marshalled defence.


Bit of a flat afternoon all round really. Don't think too many would be surprised at the score, but the performance was arguably our worst all season, on a par with the Cup defeat to rovers.


Think we have to view afternoons like this within the overall context of the whole season. We're fourth after nine games, after a tough opening third to the year. The only teams we've lost to so far are the two acknowledged best sides in SL and overall we have made massive strides, beyond any of our pre-season expectations, in a short space of time.


Starting next weekend, the fixture list begins to even itself out, we'll be facing the teams more on a par with ourselves. Hopefully JC will dust down his troops, pick them up and we go again next Sunday against Huddersfield. We're still way ahead of schedule, even if this sunny Sunday afternoon didn't quite turn out as we all hoped for.
Onwards and upwards we go.

What's the maximum number of games a player is allowed to play?

Knight got 1 point and a fine so clearly deemed not that bad.

Performance and refereeing aside, the atmosphere at the game was top notch - hopefully we can keep that up all season

It make it a mockery that we have a shock clock for scrums & drop outs but takes an age for officials to make a decision. 

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