Think losing Lane yesterday affected us a lot more than I initially thought it would. Not only meant that we lost our only recognised second rower for the game, but by moving Ashworth there we also lost our impact off the bench, which was huge noticeable when the interchanges happened.
All said in hindsight, but we'd maybe have been better moving Chamberlain to second row, Rapana to centre and using Moy at full back since he was sat on the bench. Fully understand trying to minimise the number of player movements and at that time we had no idea Rapana was going to go on to have his worst game of the year. Moy also looks a bit ropey this year, so things could have ended even worse, but I like Moy's pace and that's something Rapana just doesn't have. Moy could have been there in support of Pryce. 
Obviously again, all said in hindsight.


Also need Cust as interchange hooker next week. I do like Bourouh but we don't want to flog him for 80 next week. Need to start getting some fresh legs on at 9. Around the hour mark yesterday when we had all the momentum would have been a perfect time to get another 9 on to start running from dummy half.

I thought we did ok and it's where we are at, we aren't nowhere near ready yet but we are showing plenty of grit but still need to cut the errors out, think if we'd have scored at 0.0 things might have been slightly different but still encouraging times ahead for me. 

A couple of key turning points were rovers scoring off that god awful kick for their 2nd try and then us failing to score off the pryce break on half time.  If they don't score there or we score off the break I think it's a different game but these small margins are what win and lose games.  rovers were much better at exploiting them than us

There's a good after match press conference with JC on the club youtube feed.  The big man is clearly disappointed but honest, both of which are good for me.  We're not a million miles away and if we can get everyone on the filed for a few weeks I think we're a match for most in the comp.  Very encouraging as we're miles ahead of where I thought we'd be but maybe a reflection on how poor the standard is in the comp overall

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Where can I find the game/ player stats for the ccq?