T : Fouad Yaha 3
G :
London Broncos (12) 30
T : Jordan Abdull, Rhys Williams 2, Elliot Kear, Kieran Dixon
G : Kieran Dixon 5
Where to start with this one eh?
Pathetic capitulations away from home we have become accustomed to over the years, but we are now developing the habit of getting beaten convincingly at the Stade Gilbert Brutus.
For London read Salford, read Hull etc. etc.
The coach admitted to the press that he has no idea why after a week of good training and recovery followed by a decent pre-game warm up his team folded after their first error in possession.
The vultures are now circling for the Dragons with a number of pundits starting to predict an unravelling of our season, which aside from the cup last season fits in with previous recent campaigns.
Steve McNamara himself has asked how his players can go from looking world beaters at the Camp Nou to unfit, uncoordinated and mentally weak in the space of a month.
He needs to solve that one and quick, and whilst he is doing that he needs to get a plan in place to get Tony Gigot back to his form of last season rather than the ghost of a rugby player he is in this campaign.
His contract situation won’t be helping, but he is making mistakes at the back and proving less of an influence going forward.
Pundits are desperate to pile in on Matty Smith and choosing him over the retention of Josh Drinkwater could yet prove to be pivotal in the future of the Coach.
We seem adept at changing back room personnel, lest we forget the CEO left on the eve of the season and we have a massive shake up of coaches at the end of 2017, but nothing seems to change in the players mindset.
When they go behind they stay behind and goodness only knows what Jake Connor and Albert Kelly will do to us this weekend.
The players are still not the right ones, the positions they are playing in are not getting the best out of what we have available to us and I still wonder if this is the right coach. And I know you must be bored of reading that, because I am bored of writing it.
Change is needed.