Let’s not beat around the bush, Friday night’s performance at Newcastle was a shocker. In fact, It felt like Halloween had come a month early and the ghosts of last season had come back to haunt us all over again.
Like all good horror movies it’s the hope that kills you as a fan. The hope that the table-topping Bears would comfortably beat the basement side. The hope that we’d at long last managed to get the basics right this season. And the hope that despite not playing well, a 10-minute spell against 13 men would see the Bears conjure up a comeback win. Alas it was not meant to be.
For once I have to take issue with Pat Lam who described the Newcastle performance as “phenomenal”. Don’t get me wrong they played well, but let’s be frank, in reality they were gifted this victory by our mistakes.
