We won and we are still complaining!! Yeah we didn't play the best but the Tigers aren't that bad either. Has a side even had 50 or 60 points put on them this year ?
Yeah the Tigers had injuries and players out but so do we!!! But according to some the eels are the only side that shouldn't be affected by injuries.
Tigers have pretty much been in most of their games this year. Panthers only beat them last week by a few as they lost a centre during the game. The Tigers only a few weeks ago gave the bunnies a flogging.
What is wrong we our mentality? It's getting better each week. In our last 3 weeks we were actually behind at half time and still won, plus two of them were away from home. And we aren't meant to be able to win away from home.
Last night Tigers put 16 points on us in a short period of time but we were still able to regain control and win.
Just because we won doesn't mean we played well. Until we're a consistent Top 4 team that is a chance of winning the Premiership there will always be areas were the team must improve.
It was our approach to the game that needs to be questioned. After leading by 12 points the Tigers got into a position to put on 4 tries because of opportunities that we gave them, either through making poor decisions in attack or through a lack of effort/urgency in defence. Both of these facets come down to mental approach and attitude.
There was countless incidents in the match that related to our approach to the game that I could individually point out that caused these issues, but I would have to watch a replay of the match to specifically point them out, but issues like winning a scrum 10 metres out from your own line and then making three offloads, or looking to offload a ball in your own half to a player that is in a worse position than you, or failing to get into position at marker because you've not shown the urgency to win the play the ball area at all costs, all come down to approach towards a game.
