I think that the most galling thing for me is the manner in which we just seemed to panic - these are meant to be professionals but had little to no composure at all (Piatua’s intercept!!!)
Also, whilst I felt this would be the marker of how far we have come after believing that it’d be between us and Wuss for the drop, I think we do Wuss a huge discredit in comparing us to them as they were simply brilliant yesterday. They have been close in all their games and but for a few dodgy calls and a missed kick, could have won more games. Perhaps a more accurate barometer will be when we face Sale and Newcastle at home as on form, they are also not hitting their straps. However, this Prem is relentless and if we do not adapt and learn from yesterday, we will struggle to win.
This has been a humbling which whilst embarrassing and difficult to swallow, is not a massive surprise - the only excuse I can see is that the team were tired (it’s not a good one however). I cannot be bothered to further dissect the game and hope to see a significant raise in perofmance levels when the prem returns (we may not win but we must be more competitive) otherwiseSL’s dream of 27,000 ain’t going happen as we scrap around the bottom and possobly worse.
Rubbish Bristol - time to earn these millions boys