We lost a game. We have not been on top form for a while. And when we were, it was not for a full game.
When you want to know why an organisation has gone awry look no further than the leadership.
The Wasps team that ran on to that pitch was filled with players capable of being a great team. But they were not a great team. And that is about leadership.
Saracens have Brad Barritt, a centre, as captain.
Exeter have Jack Yeandle, hooker, as captain.
Both are excellent, vocal leaders.
I have said this before to be slapped down, but Joe comes over as too nice and, when I watch from the stands, I don't see him conducting his orchestra of players. Very hard to see from TV coverage, as they don't watch the off-the-ball work, but I have been doing just that. Watching who actually appears to be doing the organising.
In one game I saw Gopperth, Beale, Robson AND WLR doing it. At one point in one game they actually appeared to be arguing, or at least having a heated discussion. But, in the main, it is Gopperth from 12 that is most effective.
For me, Gopperth is clearly the right character to have as a motivational captain. In all the years I have watched rugby, my feeling is that the right position for a captain to be in is somewhere between flanker and 12. You can't organise if you can't look up and see the play.
But Dai seems to want to keep the captain in the pack, and I do not understand this.
This is a change that requires no sackings. It uses the resources available far better. It would require that we sign JG for a longer term. Is he not worth that?
So, I would put Beale back to FB and WLR back to the wing, with Cips and JG at 10 and 12, for the Sarries game.
Haskell was, sadly, again mostly ineffectual. If he was supposed to contain Robshaw, he failed in that. Robshaw was just so destructive.
Defensively, Beale, WLR and Daly had poor games, and not much better in attack.
We just gave the ball away over and over again. Almost every kick came straight back at us.
I was disappointed. I know those players can do better than that.