I dont think anyone is been arrogant or expects teams to just lie down and be rolled over, but the stats dont lie. As the league stands, we have played 8 games, scored 133 pts and concedd 175pts, presently we are the fifth lowest scoring team in super league which means last night wasn't just a one off, we are void of ideas in atack at the moment and one just hopes that this will be rectified sooner rather than later.
The current average is not that of a top 4 apiring side, having said that, i do have confidence in the team to turn it around and come good at some stage, hopefuly starting on Good Friday.

I really dont think anyone is being arrogant they are just being realistic, Catalans did have a good defence but isn't Dobson paid 100k+ to open these defences?? If we the fans are paying his wages of around 4k a game I certainly want him at his best most of the time. Sure he has an off game now and then and we accept that, we can not be perfectionists however we were 8 minutes off being nilled for the second time this season, we in recent weeks have only just beaten below par teams such as Leeds and Saints, given up a healthy lead against a Wakey side we should have put to bed in the first half. For 1.6million pounds I really do not want to keep saying after every game "oh its just a one off bad game" it is not what these players are paid for its their jobs to create, defend and be ruthless.

Dobson seems to take the brunt of the criticism for not opening up teams, maybe rightly so in some instances but unless he has options to play to he can't work miracles by himself. After watching the game last night I was more worried about the amount of times Dobson had ball in hand and had to play the rubbish inside ball to the prop as there were no runners or dummy runners asking questions of the defence.

We need to make teams think about what we might do, I'Anson coming back may improve this as it will add an extra pivot int he team, but at the moment 5th tackle in the 20 is 90% of the time a short grubber into the in goal that if you know its coming is very easy to deal with.

All that being said, Catalans played really well, I thought the return of Bosc and Walker really boosted them and this being only their 3rd home game made this a really hard fixture.

During the week he said Chaz wasn't 100% fit and didn't want to risk him which was the correct decision

My main worry is that our star half back struggles to make clean accurate passes which makes our other players have much more work to do. He's 23 I think so plenty of time to grow but if he wants or gets given the bulk of the workload then we need to address this sooner rather than later.

Agreed about the decisions of other players, we need more runners on each play but it seems as though they've got a play and anyone not involved is setting up for the next one because we're trying to be one step ahead of ourselves when sometimes we need to just concentrate on the play we are on like the best teams do.

Our main problem is that we only have Dobson who is a creative player and if the oposition can shut him down we struggle. We need another half back. If the money quota space isn't there for a star player then we should be looking in the national leagues I.M.O.

Who in the NL's would we go for and have the time to train upto this standard though? James Webster is still one of the best half backs down in the NL's and if he wasn't good enough who really do we think could cut it??

Chaz never lets us down and we certainly look more solid with him in our attack so lets give him a few more games but we need more options near the line and people deffinately need to stop thinking about the next play and concentrate on the one they are actually on.

We need to stick with Chaz, see how he develops in a long term role with Dobbo, if it comes off we have some cash to spend in another area when one of the high paid players goes home in 2011, if not we can look at a stand off.

People say our creativity has suffered since Cooke left, but he was a spectator for most games when he was here anyway. That suggests Cooke is either an inconsistent 1-game-in-5 type player, or our tactics and gameplans didn't utilise him often enough.

If it is the latter, surely it wont matter who we sign, if our 6 is going to be restricted to nothing more than running the ball in or giving it straight to Dobson, we may as well stick with Murrell or I'Anson. No point wasting a big chunk of the cap on someone who hardly sees the ball. We already did that with Cooke.

I've not seen enough of Chas to have a totally informed opinion. I hope Morgan's faith in him comes to fruition.