We don't looked dangerous enough in phase play for me. Gopps secures our defence, and is a very good runner, but I prefer him at 12 than 10. Quins will have been extremely fired up for this game, and we've just gone into the shed ahead, that'll hurt their confidence and help ours I reckon. We need to keep our foot on their throats now, even if it's only done in 3s. Funnily enough, we seem more willing to play from deep within our own half, but it's the wrong personnel to be doing that. When with Cips we seemed to clear out most stuff deeper than our 10m line, when we are fluid with him ball in hand, now we're with Gops, more suited to a kicking and defensive game, we're taking more chances.
Think we've been lucky not to give away one or two more scrum penalties, I'm sure other refs would have given them. Bit annoyed by one of our attacking rucks, when the tackler got up, long after the ruck was formed, and competed for the ball. Barnes told him no, but that completely killed our quick ball. On the topic of quick ball, Robson has been like lightening for me, balls are getting shipped out so quickly when he's presented with even half decent ball.
Balls still not sticking to hand well enough, but it's just got to stick enough times.