The problem with high anticipation is that it sometimes leads to a proportional disappointment. The decent Hornets travelling support yesterday (forget what the home fans say about numbers, they were far too busy shouting the name of a team that doesn't exist any more to count) fairly crackled with expectation - but by ten past three the magnitude of their deflation was already being measured by a points against that raced ahead of the clock.

Turner, Cooper, Roberts (straight from the kick off), March and Gene had all crossed before Hornets troubled the scorers on half an hour - O'Meara taking a pass out wide from Danny Wood to score. Atkins restored normal service two minutes later following a 60 metre run by Stanley Gene that saw him shed five or six weak Hornets tackles.

The second half followed much the same pattern - minus the Hornets four points - with March, Turner, Cooper and Wittenberg notching tries. McNamara kicked 8 goals, Thorman one.

That Hornets ended this debacle in shreds with just 11 players on the field says it all.

Quite simply there were too many players on that pitch in Hornets shirts who didn't care enough - didn't care enough about the jersey, didn't care enough about the club, didn't care enough about the supporters, didn't care enough about their embarrassment and didn't care enough about the outcome.
Chief culprit in a very long line up of suspects was 'the big I am' Paul Davidson who visibly couldn't be arsed. Don't get me wrong - he has in him somewhere genuine ability and when he lets us have a glimpse it's good to watch. But he has to forget that he's 'ex-Mr SuperLeague panto-villain bad boy' and remember that he's now an NFP prop who needs to dig deep and graft for every yard and tackle for all he's worth. There's no place in our competition - or our team - for posers and yesterday Paul Davidson made me cringe.
But he wasn't alone in displaying a complete disregard for the matters in hand. Hornets' halfbacks were as inneffective as they were anonymous. Not once did either of them pass the ball into a better position, kick the ball in order to place pressure on the opposition or run at the defence in a way that might suggest that they had an intention of coming out the other side. We have more effective half backs in the A team. Let's use them.

But they were just the chief protagonists in a team that failed spectacularly to live up to its billing. Powder-puff tackling, naive positional play and an 'attack' that displayed all the imagination of a housebrick were the order of the day. Whatever preparation had gone well during the week had clearly been left on the bus.

This will be a difficult week for Martin Hall. Doncaster will come to us next week buzzing on the back of a brave defeat at Castleford. If we're only half as slack, lazy and ineffective, they'll beat us by 30. And while I always try and find some positive even in defeat, this time there was none.

A thumping by Leigh a year ago kick started our season. Has this team got the same character and will to win?
Disasters require drastic measures to put them right. Now's the time for action.