On field management just isn’t right. I like Joe and we are a better side with him in it but he doesn’t seem to have the Captaincy respect needed. The free kick incidence in the first half is a good example. Why do that when we had complete scrum dominance.
It wasn't really any better when Joe was out injured.
It's all about leadership teams.
Joe and Brad should both be leading regardless of who the official captain is.
Dan, Jimmy and Hougaard should be leading the backs
But, Dan is obviously struggling so shouldn't be expected to lead anything. He just needs to get his game back together.
Jimmy may also be focusing on his own game to ensure he's the best version of himself he can be at his age.
So many individual brain farts over and over again.
Hard to predict that some of them will happen and do something about it in advance..... Especially when we learnt last week that we can't necessarily trust our bench