and we have been too weak defensively, especially on the right. O'Callaghan and Clubb have been a revolving door all season.

I can’t understand why Mac didn’t coach Clubb to stay in the line in defence-I would expect low grade players to understand the benefits of a straight line defence rather than making the decision for the attacker which Clubb does week after week.



Off Topic I apologise-but this has really annoyed me all season-as well as contributing to my thoughts that Mac isn’t an intelligent coach

Quote morethanenuff="morethanenuff"and we have been too weak defensively, especially on the right. O'Callaghan and Clubb have been a revolving door all season.'" I would be very interested to see an opposition try graphic showing where tries were scored against us in 2010. I would imagine most would be around the right centre position. JOC's first full season in first-grade, and he has been outside someone who in 2010 could not be relied on defensively. I think defending outside Tony Clubb, who IS a second-row or possibly even a prop the way we need front-rowers, would be like running on chip batter, whilst trying to keep out cohesive attacks from co-ordinated teams. www.dailymotion.com/video/xekvn5 ... e-one_tech Tony Clubb get back to the pack!

Quote morethanenuff="morethanenuff"and we have been too weak defensively, especially on the right. O'Callaghan and Clubb have been a revolving door all season.'" I would be very interested to see an opposition try graphic showing where tries were scored against us in 2010. I would imagine most would be around the right centre position. JOC's first full season in first-grade, and he has been outside someone who in 2010 could not be relied on defensively. I think defending outside Tony Clubb, who IS a second-row or possibly even a prop the way we need front-rowers, would be like running on chip batter, whilst trying to keep out cohesive attacks from co-ordinated teams. www.dailymotion.com/video/xekvn5 ... e-one_tech Tony Clubb get back to the pack!

Enjoyed most games. Compared to the second half of the 2009 season where the game plan was to play it safe by grinding down to the opposition line (and then fail to score from ten metres out) this season was a joy. No more safety first. The pack was too lightweight to boss the opposition so it had to be death or glory. So either a lot of dropped ball or a lot of breathtaking breaks and tries - eg Willy's breaks like his length of the field Offiah by breaking the line and swerving round the full back, or that sublime reverse pass from Howell to Dorn for the 'now you see him now you don't' try of the season.



As mentioned above there was no lack of effort, so even after a marmalising 80 minutes of mistake ridden rugby there was hope that next week would be different. And it was.



Predictability is death to sport and predictable is what Quins 2010 was not. Results only matter if they don't come easily. (Cf the bored Wigan contingents making their way to the umpteenth Wembley of the nineties.) So the few good results and the sparkling tries that gained them were worth the wait. Yup, a pretty enjoyable season all round. Even when the results weren't going Quins way there was still the wonderful ground, the brilliant L&L, the good company and the opposition play to enjoy ... with the knowledge that next week would be different.



When does the season ticket reminder arrive?

Interesting view on the season Joeo

He seems to be a "glass half full" person!

Two questions



1) What drugs are you on?

and



2) Can I have some please?

That's great joeo. At least somebody got something positive from this season.



For me, it's all about performance on the pitch and a home record of

P13, W4, L9, conceding more than 25 points per game is just too bad.



I don't get to so many games these days, "my" home record is 1 win in 7 and my remembered "high spot" of the one victory is of seeing Howell wind up McGoldrick so much that he conceded a penalty in possession, which I think proved a turning point in the game, and led to the tattoo-ed one getting his marching orders. We threw away the Salford game (oh, that we had a Holdsworth to organise us), were embarrassingly bad in the 2 Hull games and were totally outclassed by Saints, Leeds and Wigan.

The Salford game was the nadir. Staggering ineptitude on display. Salford fans came down at half time and said to me "Christ you lot are awful"

... and we were leading 12-4 at H.T.

I think this was the game when it hit me what a long hard season we were in for! Abysmal second half performance although best chant I heard in a long time was when one of our fans stood up and gave a long, rambling rant about something I can't now remember and the Reds fans chanted 'Do you come with Subtitles?'



Did enjoy the Cas and Wrexham games but not a lot else (I think the 1st half against FC was my personal nadir!)

I thought they were hilarious, best away fans we had all year (at least at the games I was at)