Apologies if covered elsewhere, but I was less than impressed with Alexis last night.
I've read plenty of criticism of Knight and CKR on here, in terms of attitude and performance. Personally I think they both contributed and yes CKR is young and needs to work on a few things (pace, aerial competitiveness).
But Nicholas IMHO stood out as the poorest out there. I remember reading people asking why he hasn't had a chance to show what he can do. He hasn't managed to oust Chippy or Charlie, and they're barely championship material in honesty, and we saw why last night.
Ineffective, no composure when passing (but then Hammond and Reid suffer a bit from that as well), chasing shadows, no presence, jumping tackles, tickling the feet of the opposition on the ball instead of block tackling, poor standard of distribution, scared of going forward.
Not impressed IMHO. Like to see Hammond a bit sharper mentally in the middle as well, but can't accuse him like Nicholas of giving us nothing.
I've read plenty of criticism of Knight and CKR on here, in terms of attitude and performance. Personally I think they both contributed and yes CKR is young and needs to work on a few things (pace, aerial competitiveness).
But Nicholas IMHO stood out as the poorest out there. I remember reading people asking why he hasn't had a chance to show what he can do. He hasn't managed to oust Chippy or Charlie, and they're barely championship material in honesty, and we saw why last night.
Ineffective, no composure when passing (but then Hammond and Reid suffer a bit from that as well), chasing shadows, no presence, jumping tackles, tickling the feet of the opposition on the ball instead of block tackling, poor standard of distribution, scared of going forward.
Not impressed IMHO. Like to see Hammond a bit sharper mentally in the middle as well, but can't accuse him like Nicholas of giving us nothing.