Heckydave

It was like a team just put together 5 minutes before kick off. Cannot remember a good performance in the home games. Nobody appeared interested or had any enthusiasm. Barging over to try and score, everyone flat when receiving the ball, half backs not taking a man on, no organisation, no attacking kicks on last tackle and a poor chase to these.

The defence was ok most of the game. The last tackle kicking was poor, it was a windy day, the pitch was muddy and we kicked on the ground rather than in the air. 4 times the same player was penalised for ball stripping, the player needs to learn. As always we concede a try before half time, need to concentrate more. How did ah van manage to get over in the corner. Also do not recall Ferguson taking more than one drive in and then he appeared to be injured shortly afterwards. Overall a disappointing performance and a lot of improvement needed . We have had a number of games to get the attack sorted but we offered very little, although crusaders did not offer much either.

Good point about having a friendly where we might have a chance of actually winning to try and get some confidence before the season opener. seem to recall something similar happening a few years ago where we lost all 3 friendly games and then had a poor season

Worst referee I have seen for a long time. Virtually every penalty went to Toulouse. Don’t hear cheat from the south stand very often. But we did concede 4 poor tries especially the one from acting half.

Hopefully not the same ref as when we played them at home. Lots of slow play the balls due to him not penalizing them for laying on.