General thoughts
Trial games are always a case of what are you looking to get out of them. If you're looking for a polished, finished performance you're probably setting yourselves up for a disaster. We had a good hit out, definitely got outplayed, but we got a reasonable conditioning hit out despite the repeated stoppages that didn't bring an interchange despite an unlimited interchange day.
Lack of green card
I didn't ask whether it was going to be used in any of the trial games but I believe it was agreed it wasn't going to be used. But that doesn't stop the fact there was a big, lengthy stoppage and we're going into a year that's critical for our game. We had one injury (Kruise Leeming) where the referee decided to stop the game eventually because we decided we wanted to carry on as in a trial match you want conditioning and the ball in play. You don't hear much from the RFL over the Winter.
Lack of cohesion in attack
I think there were four play-one errors in the first half. You can't get any cohesion or flow. There was an attempt to do what we set out to do but you make errors and overplay your hand. We know how we want to attack, we didn't execute it today, we've to find the right balance between patience and passing the ball. But overall I thought we looked physically pretty good, we didn't look too tired at many stages and defensively I thought we tackled effectively aside from inside our ten when we let them play the ball too quickly and they scored from barge overs. That will be attended to.
