After a bright-ish start we are once again slipping alarmingly fast down the oft-quoted Premiership mountain with four consecutive defeats and the same failings from last season rearing its ugly head, namely ‘consistent inconsistency’, both between games and within them.
I’m sure the players are just as disappointed as the fans and we have to believe that none of them go out to drop the ball, miss a tackle or make a wrong decision on purpose, but the fact is that professional sport is a results-driven game and when the results dry up the hard questions start getting asked.
After the agonising defeat at Gloucester there was hope that the improvements seen in that Friday night pressure cooker would be translated into an even more positive performance on the road at Northampton, but rather than go from good to great, the Bears went instead from good to ‘give it to them on a plate’ as a promising start at Franklin’s Gardens disintegrated into a first-half horror show.
