Eddie O'Sullivan
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But I like, I'm trying to come at this from a point of view that it's two really serious gut punches in two weeks for them.
Takes them way out of where they thought they were.
And for them to come back from this, I don't think there's a ton of things to be fixed.
But there's a lot of small things.
It's like the engines rattling at the moment, and there's five or six things that are causing the rattling.
But I think they're all ultimately fixable.
But the tricky part of that is, as long as those rattling is there, the confidence is going to wobble.
And I think the confidence they took out the first part of the season is now drained.
It's gone.
Their first five games, they would have been in a pretty good place up between their ears.
That's all probably dissipated now to the point where they're going to be very nervous from here on in.
Maybe running in the Challenge Cup is going to give them a bit of mojo back, but I'm really gutted from them because I thought they were on a good track and I think last Saturday derailed a lot of good stuff for them.
The tricky part, sorry, what I was just saying before.
You were saying there, I think we talked about how he spent the first few games of the season giving everybody a shot and saying, no, there's no excuses.
So on the back of that, he's put his best foot forward two weeks in a row.
So the problem is, where does he pivot now?
What can he change in terms of personnel?
Even in recruitment, I think their hands are tied.
They don't have big money.
So he's kind of...