Benetton v Edinburgh.

[Pitfitter1105]

What no comments, at all! So glad I/we decided early to make the trip, unlike Castres the trip home was a happy place, the gate area at the airport noisy and great to see the players and coaches heads up, laughing and joking with us fans, new year, new start, we hope.

[The Feral Goat]

What no comments, at all! So glad I/we decided early to make the trip, unlike Castres the trip home was a happy place, the gate area at the airport noisy and great to see the players and coaches heads up, laughing and joking with us fans, new year, new start, we hope.

Been here before need to back up results. Still look clueless in attack.

Freddy Douglas needs to play more, we need second rows back from injury but pack is generally doing ok our inability to score is a major.hurdle. we either kick ball away or looked to get it to back 3 too quickly without creating them space. There is no clear structure at all, we all want Darcy etc running in tries but the 9-13 need to have some innovation to create the opportunities.

[liveinhope]

Actually I thought that (for Edinburgh) some of the back play and handling was pretty good (usually non-existent). Could have done without Thomson though twice knocking on simple passes (also Young on one occasion).
Both Currie and Lang were excellent so hopefully improve once they get more time together. Thomson did some good things to be fair but I'd prefer to see Scott (and Shiell) start against Gloucester.

[doedin]

Lang and Currie looked like a few more games would benefit them but still gave the team more cutting edge. Thomson isnt really cutting it for me, doesn't really have a running game, sits very deep and kicking wasn't the best. I agree we need to invest in Scott going forward.

Overall we played well for 50mins without really scoring the points we should have and then played dross for 30mins and hung on for the win. Early on we kicked a definitive 3 point penalty to touch then lost the line out and gave away two penalties and ended up having to defend a line out on our won 5m line. Too many brain farts and poor skills on show but thankfully Beneton were worse!

Gloucester game is make or break for the season.

[dolf_lundgren]

Totally agree, I dont think any of our 10/12/13 options are top notch (Currie still has potential) but if they can play together regularly and get some sort of understanding then it can only help. Scott needs to be backed and given confidence, chopping and changing doesnt help anyone. Too often our midfield look like they met in the car park.

We are desperately short of realy quility there though and at 9, again good players, but none that are really driving us forward.

I like Jack Brown at fullback too, Goosen is regularly one of our best players, the one thing he lacks is a really big boot to get us field position, Brown (and Paterson) give us that and it makes a difference.