by doedin on Sat Mar 07, 2015 12:39 am
Good game! Stronger Cardiff side this week with a couple of their internationalists back playing, Cuthbert and Anscombe made a huge difference for them and a converted try in the 87th minute to win by one point. I thought they were a little lucky as Connaught had a perfectly good turnover in the 84th minute which the referee penalised them for, which would have given Connaught the win. That gives Cardiff 6 wins now this season they’ve overtaken the Dragons and are catching us up, only 5 points behind! They are still a little off being world beaters though, or even making it into the top 6.
Oh how low our ambition has fallen! We really do need to set our benchmark a little higher than a LB against what was then the team in 9th position in the league, only just sitting above the Italians.
If you read my whole post my main gripe was we really should have clobbered Cardiff with the amount of possession we had through the set piece. We dominated the scrums and the line out, had tons of good possession in the 2nd half and yet still managed to only scramble a LB. To then try and explain our deficiencies away, particularly our woefully inadequate back play, by claiming that Cardiff are a good side was and still is just plain delusional.
However the good news is we can catch up Connaught by beating Treviso, the 2nd bottom team in the league who have only won 3 games this season and conceded the most points of any team - an average of over 30 points a game. Surely a win with a TB is the minimum expected ... or am I now delusional?