Afternoon YEx have been in Bridlington with my wife and children at one of my fathers Garret's.
I heard pretty much the same as you, not good game management, not taking points when they're available.
The feeling was that we were in control for the first 50 and PP were lucky to still be in it. But the break never came.
PP played with a desire and desperation to defend, some of which we could have done with I guess.
Shame to have led the league for so long and slipped up at the penultimate fixture.
For my two penneth, I think the problem was the lack of bonus point wins in Dec onwards where for whatever reasons we stopped scoring and started defending and giving the opposition lots of possession (they may well have been taking that possession), the problem with that is whilst effective, you don't score lots of points and or win by big margins.
We have had a number of injuries to some of our backs, and our team back line is definitely a combination of athletes and a few with rugby brains and when the brains are missing your kind of screwed.
We have I think also struggled at the breakdown to do with interpretation or being out thought or out muscled or are not cynical enough, which is a surprise as we have real strength in depth in that area and some quality.
That and the loss at Old Crocs who we as a club have always struggled with.
To cap it all, Ilkley have played very well and have definitely been the form team, I don't know if they have great strength in depth , and you definitely need a bit of luck on your side in keeping all players fit and healthy, are well coached and are fortunate IMO that there hooker managed to not get sent off throughout the season.
Ilkley I think play the game in the right manner and attractively to but I am astonished that no one managed to stop there 3 stand out backs playing, maybe they were too good to let themselves be caught by some psychotic back row or maybe it's not possible any more?