I disagree with a lot of this. We only started to grind out wins after we were humiliated at Wakey. This season, after Cronulla, we got the win away at Widnes despite all the upheaval that week. We nilled Leigh and got up for Warrington away and won. During those weeks, we had a relatively strong side and our attack looked very fluent. Then we lost a few more players and played Huddersfield with 2 subs for 72 mins but got the draw. We looked too thinly spread to expect a win away at Leeds and lost Gildart who'd been playing great rugby. We played Cas with 12 players missing and they hammered us! We then got Budgie and MM back and beat Saints Wakey and Catalan despite suffering more injuries. The result against Cas was inevitable in my view and we go into this week against Salford with 14 players missing. I fear a similar thumping if I'm honest!
Despite all that, the circumstances with injuries are without doubt the major contributor in our form and I have no doubt that should we get a bit of luck with injuries, the slick attack that we saw in the early games will come back.

Agree Escaré doesn't look confident with his goal-kicking, and, at the very least, we should surely use a right-footed kicker (Powell) for kicks from the left touch-line, as we have done once or twice.

You forgot to mention Matty Smith

Cas aside I don't think will or effort has been a major issue. As usual the issue is the unbelievable amount of disruption the team keeps having to face. The attack looks ok when we have something like a strong team out (which nowadays still means missing 5 or 6 players) and defensively we've not done too bad most weeks.

I can't sit here and complain too much with how things have gone. We could have an horrendous time of it in the coming weeks and I'd still like to think I'll sit here not too miffed. The circumstances with these injuries we're facing is unprecedented (certainly for us). It's been going on for three seasons now and shows no sign of easing.

We'll get lads like Tomkins, Bateman and Williams back (with any luck) before long but then those three plus a few others won't get a proper off season as they'll be at the World Cup. We'll probably have 4 or 5 in the England Squad (minimum), Escare and Navarette with the French, Gelling with Cook Islands, Leuluai possibly with NZ, Tierney with the Scots plus there's potential for others like Gildart (Italy) and Tautai to be called up. I'm glad that they will be but then we better prepare for just as bad a situation next season.

After seeing who you quoted I was going to post the same!