Quote:Ginger Blueboy
Looks like it's going to be a very long season.
Lose to Ealing away next week and we'll probably be mathematically out of the cup with two group games to spare. If that does happen (hardly an unlikely scenario), will be interesting to see how we approach those two games, even though they're against our local rivals.
According to the match report, 4 players in the backs today got injured, including Hooley and Adamson. Wouldn't be surprised if Lennon may have to play on the wing from the start next week.
We've had disappointing seasons recently as well as very good ones. What really worries me though, is the appalling record we have in attack this season. Previously, even if we lost a lot of games, we'd still score a fair amount of points. The problem instead would be in defence.
This season, only 2 times in 9 have we scored more than 20 points and 3 times three tries or more. The two times we scored more than 20, one was against Yorkshire Carnegie and the other against Ealing but after the game was long gone. Take out the Yorkshire match from the league games, and we barely average double figures for points scored.
I know the weather played a big role for the two league home games in keeping scores low, but from those who've seen Blues play multiple times in competitive games this year, are we looking far less sharp in attack?
Good post GB, you are right the last 3 seasons have been very good I think we finished 3rd in each one. Prior to that we had a poor one but, as you say picked up a lot of points, quite a lot of LB's. I also think there were a couple of other teams that were probably worse than us that season and I think we ended up halfway. As you say this year is different (so far) in terms of points scored but we are only 6 games in. However the next 6 look fairly ominous, but 4 of them are at home.