Match Thread

[Rossm]

17-10. Charlie converts.

[Shugs]

Still need two scores. Time against us now.

[WonkyWasp]

Wot???  Score please?

[Bloke in North Dorset]

17-10

[Shugs]

Ford penalty. 10 behind. 5 mins to go. We could have won this. But we haven’t.

[Steve from Cov]

One of our best performances this season I reckon.

[NellyWellyWaspy]

You know what, if we had played like that all season, we would be in the top 4. Well played by the lads. A good game. Looking forward to next year.

[Covkid40]

No lack of effort but that should be a given from professional sportsman. Defence has been ok but we are toothless in attack. We don’t keep the scoreboard ticking over which lets teams off the hook

[Steve from Cov]

You know what, if we had played like that all season, we would be in the top 4. Well played by the lads. A good game. Looking forward to next year.

+1

[will311293]

I have to be honest, i have to disagree partially with the a few posters. Defensively we have been extremely good but the attack just looks toothless. We just don't seem to know what we are supposed to be doing or lines we are supposed to be running.

Looking forward to next year but our attack needs some serious work as the number of key handling mistakes and poor execution in attacking positions really cost us today and realistically over the whole season.

[Shugs]

Brave effort. A good display but our errors cost us again. Plenty of reasons to be hopeful. Our pack is now our strength and we have to build on that. We looked a lot more lively with Odogwu on and it’s clear Spink should have started more often (although I freely admit when that question was posed on here I went Fekitoa). Bassett looked good again today. But the frustration is we could and maybe should have won - but lost.

[Neils]

Far more possession.  Generally none of the leavers did anything positive.  Kind of pleased with that. Top seed in the Challenge.

[will311293]

I think we need to have an understanding of a few things for next year, most predominatly what are attacking plays are going to be.

We seem to rely on the ball out the back to Gopperth or Spink from Atkinson/Gopps and Leicester read it everytime. We have to figure out what we can do to make this less easy to read.

[Bloke in North Dorset]

Tiger's defence was very good and we lacked a bit of imagination.

I'm not sure that choosing to play kick tennis against a team with George Ford in it is the wisest of game plans and I don't think we won one of those battles.

I thought Charlie had a good game. Whatever's wrong with that knee I hope it gets resolved over the summer and he gets to play without the strapping.

[Rossm]

Jimmy has been targeted by defenses. IMO, he's slowed up just that little bit and he's been the bottleneck in our backs. However, we have been short at 12 all season with Ryan Mills constantly being unavailable for a medical dictionary's list of reasons.