There's heaps of issues with this side. But from what I saw, today we lost the ruck in this game. We were on top there early on, and got hit with a tonne of penalties and six agains. Were they legit and fair? I dunno. But the guys were super quick to release the Knights in the second half, it felt they were lying all over us and getting away with it. This meant no front foot ball, and little for the backs to play off. And boy do we need it.
We are stuck going right, SJ and CNK getting marked up big time and we keep going back for more. There were multiple times we had them short left, and we go right. Time and again. It looked like their winger was 10m inside the touchline, even when defending on their line.
Our backs were running sideways, getting no metres or momentum. Conditions didn't help. Timely penalties fucked us in the first half, and errors killed us in the second.
We are lacking X factor and speed, and have a structured attacking system which is looking very one dimensional. I thought our defence was OK today, but penalties and errors let that down.
I think Webster has to think about changes now, especially in the backline. This has been a horror patch, but I still think we can change the tide. We're running out of time though.