I'm really looking forward to the Pay apologists come out after this one. Even with Hopoate out, the Tigers on paper are not a 7 tries to 1 better team than us. You can say Holland, Wakeham, etc had poor games and they did, but if you look at us as a unit in terms of cohesiveness, fitness, structure in attack and defense it's pretty damning. Damning of whatever so-called pre season we had and our preparation in the lead up to games. It's not like this is a new team and these guys haven't played together before. I laughed when someone earlier in the thread was talking about how much better Elliott looks than the rest of the team because he was training by himself but it's actually true.
And we're relying on an English prop forward to be our saviour who by all accounts is another really strong workman like forward. Scary times for the club and the board have a lot of work to do to get us out if it.