Originally Posted by
fishy3005
Last week i said i thought we would beat Warrington comfortably if we play as well as we have throughout the year. Yesterday we didn’t play like we have played. We can dissect the game all we want. Walmsley and Coote unfit, Knowles try etc etc. Bottom line, yet again, we saved our weakest performance for when it matters most. That has become a real trend with this club.
Last week we were favourites for everything this year. Now, all bets are off. We are capable of winning the Grand Final but at the same time i wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if we get rolled over in the semi at our ground. Any team that comes to the TWS in the play offs will have their tails up big time.
I said last week, we just don’t seem to wear the favourites tag very well. The pressure gets to us and we crumble. In the opening 20 minutes yesterday we had enough ball in good attacking position to be 18 points up but looked clueless and as usual, the players who look like world beaters in the weekly rounds seem to look bang average. Passes to ground, Scarsbrook missing tackles, Lomax lost, Roby some pretty poor passes from acting half, etc.
The best thing that can happen to us this year is we limp into the play offs and get written off by every man and his dog going into the Grand Final semi. This scenario is unlikely though. I have a feeling we will dust off, thrash Castleford on Thursday and build over the next 5 weeks, before crashing out in our home semi for Old Trafford.
This pattern has become the norm for this club.
Last week i thought we’d win everything, now i have a feeling we’ll win d*** all. Does this make me fickle? Maybe but its how i feel.