A lot of people are questioning the attitude on show today, I thought it was much more a fitness issue rather than an attitude issue. The Warriors got some really soft penalties and absolutely nothing went our way at all. As someone else said if we got over 30% possession in that second half I would be surprised. Just about the whole second half was the Warriors camped in our half, I actually don't remember us getting a set of 6 where we started in their half, or even us getting tackled in their 20m zone. Basically the boys were extremely tired after defending for a whole half. Some typical errors from the usual suspects didn't help us at all but I thought the attitude and effort was there, we just didn't have the gas left in the tank to do anything with the ball or defend with any vigour.
I agree with a few others who pointed out that the 36th minute was the turning point, it was basically a 12 point turnaround, we were looking pretty decent in attack and the Warriors were struggling to contain us, we should have had a repeat set but Kata gets away and they score upfield a minute later, that was a massive error from us which robbed us of all our momentum and gave the Warriors a boost going into half time, which they then proceeded to take advantage of in the second half and trample all over us.
Also there are so many of these guys who have only played a handful of FG games and people are blowing a gasket over us losing after having a 6 point lead for about 10 mins... Relax guys, take some positives out of that first half, we were the better team for most of it and our inexperience cost us. It won't be the last time it happens this year.
