London

Strange feeling - winning by 30 points and not being very excited by the game. I think Rowley summed it up well. Good in patches but no consistency.

Easier said than done but we need to make it more of an event. It felt really dead yesterday.

Props— we need to through the kitchen sink at Lewis beinek he smashed are pack. And let’s hope Lewis plays well especially without big jack

Excellent point that. Friday in summer and Sunday early and late season.

Sneyd and Lafai in the Team of the Week

Am bored so thought I'd do a player review.
Boring match as well tbh


Hank- Ran hard and defended well, but we lack so much in attack without brierley as that pivot.

Cross-solid but not spectacular

Lafai= MoM for me, terrified them and floored that bienek with a monster tackle ,superb.

Macdonald- played well and once played was focused on lafai as key attacking threat in 2nd half, he followed him a few times for offloads and scored off one

Ryan- Poor, missed lots of tackles and didn't really offer much going forward.

Atkin- same as cust in that he offers nothing as a running threat at SO. Is definitely a bench player to come on, as as when he starts he shows his defiencies

Sneyd- played well and bar the 40/20 that went wayward, kicked them all over the park. Defence again was suss at times, but fo not support from inside man (Stone)

Singleton: Does enough, but rarely sets the world on fire. Just physically looks the wrong shape for a modern day prop

Shorrocks: it isn't a coincidence that we struggle to get going until mellor comes on after 20 mons. Just isn't a hooker. He can throw a nice pass but doesn't go forward. Much more effective at loose.

Wright: Again, just isn't a prop. He runs nices lines (As you would expect for 2nd row) but always seems to be pulling people back when tacking instead of hitting them head on and stopping them. Needs moving back to 2nd row whenever we get the numbers back.

Stone- Poor again. He got ran over twice in the 1st half and sat on his backside. Scored an okay try though but just floats about and doesn't offer enough penetration going forward or enough defensive stability next to sneyd. Another who lets a player past him before tackling. Hit him front on man!

Watkins- played well, ran some good lines and hit players hard defensively. Still class at 33 and lovely balence

Partington Far from his best game and got bullied about a bit.


Dudson- definitely fronts up and adds a bit of grunt to us defensively and go forward

Melllor- 2nd game in a row hes come on and made a big impact. Starting to see his quality now and really moves us forward

Foster- Did okay, nothing special bit needs a run of games

Connell- thought the young man did we for his 20 min cameo and didn't looks overawed. Did some nice tackles and took it in a couple of times. Needs to go out on loan now and build up his game time in championship if possible

Overall a wins a win, but defensively we were all over the shop. Every time the ball moved wide either through looped pass or even just through hands there was an overlap.
Any decent team would have licked us I think, as we just don't slide defensively and this pincer move with wingers rushing in is getting found out and even against a London team with zero pace outside it showed huge problems.
Needs sorting urgently as not good enough

I'm a fan of both shorrocks and Partington , but I just felt partington wasn't at it and wasn't aggressive enough on Sunday. He usually is but just went missing a bit for me for some reason.
Shorrocks I again appreciate he's filling in and defends and passes well, but hasn't got the acceleration or mindset to take us forward from the acting half postion. Hopefully Amir back next match should see him revert to his normal position