Pressure on their line but just forward drives, no one running a line
As Mr Punch would say .. That’s the way to do it
Great in attack; absolutely dreadful in defence.
Important try on half time
We are Looking pretty sharp with the ball, but for the first 30 minutes our line defence was not up to scratch.
If we can score next we can hopefully put things to bed early. But we now have the wind in our face so field position should be harder to come by
That defence needs some serious tightening up ASAP
look good in attack
In attack we’re doing well. Some solid runs and some good passing.my only concern is that we are a little straight and predictable, no angled runs, few dummy runners but we have speed and will get better in handling with each game.
in defence though, we are woeful. Men falling off tackles, too much of this reaching out with a half hearted are for a tackle and not enough bodies in to prevent yards after the collision. Main issue though are the yards being conceded from every play of the ball - too slow moving up to meet them and we are giving them time to run at us from 1st receiver. Just need to step up and “meet em” and get in their faces as much in defence as we are in attack!
Absolutely stupid from Doro, who’s been superb so far.
Disgraceful
Absolute garbage in defence. Could be a long season.
Very disappointed. Thrown away
That’s a point chucked away. Some good individual performances but also some defending that wasn’t up to scratch.
Right edge of the defence majorly culpable.
The injury to Cook cost us as we were left with Clough, who was excellent, playing too long.
Matty Smith should be disappointed with the inability to clear his lines in a simple way.
Good tries scored again.
Sin binning changed the momentum of the game, which was going nowhere.
Ok we can say we threw that away.
what the hell went on in that second half it looked like we came out to just defend it.
you cant even say it was the lack of experience threw friendlys because we looked s**t in that second half. There is no excuse for me there to throw a lead like that away is disgraceful.
First 30 minutes of second half and I thought Finnegan had read my post! 😂
Then we conceded two by going back to what we were doing in the first half, too slow pushing up at the ptb giving them too much time to get momentum. Credit to Newcastle though, they took their chances!
The last play clock up was unforgivable though! Not sure who played the ball from dummy half, but in not setting up the drop goal he cost us the game.
That second half was vary poor from us, no game management but we at least defended well. Doro's brain fart because someone tackled him hard killed us. That extra space and our inability to have any field position killed us.
Very disappointing result against a bang average Newcastle team. I worry for us against Toulouse, york, fev and even sheffield.
Lastly Speading was absolute garbage today, smith still looks unfit. But worst of all, i think we got our tactics wrong in that 2nd half, lots of running at the markers and very little attacking rugby played. when we have craven, Smith and Owens as our backs we should be opening up teams with good rugby not trying to shut a game down.