very hard to disagree with his analysis. We should've won & won well instead we put in a shit house performance and just scraped through.
Yep, we should have won with daylight second and the Dragons somewhere behind. But you're dead right; it was a shithouse performance.
The way I saw it, four things reeally annoyed me:
1) The backline didn't see enough ball in attack. Two or three hard momentum gaining hit ups should have been enough and the speed would have done the rest - especially in the first half.
2) Tim Lafai looked as though he was at a training session getting used to running onto an inside pass and going nowhere. It must have happened about six times. (But I really liked Lafai's defence)
3) Aiden Tolman's defensive effort is incredible, we're really under the pump without him. But Tolman taking the first pass on the fifth tackle? No Aiden... NO!
4) Our last tackle options seemed to be planned to let the other team off the hook. Nine out of ten times its an unplanned kick somewhere in the direction of the opposition line.
Well that's my little rant at Des making sure we're under the radar.