Thoughts on Bristol
Tough loss, we paid the price for defensive lapses yet again, especially in the pick and go game, it was just too easy for Exeter to make ground in that phase of the game. I was unhappy with our tactical kicking gme, too frequent and too aimless, against sides with a great backline we will get punished for it.
But we are scoring tries, I'd be more worried if we were getting done with us only scoring penalties and DG's. The fact we can score will keep us in games and against the sides around us make us a legit threat. We aren't at full strength yet, we have Henson, Lemi, Woodward all to return/arrive to strengthen us and I dont think we're finishied signing players either.
Our scrum and maul was a big plus, that we can use as a weapon going forward.
Finally, with the start to the season we had was always likley. Not complaining, I'd rather this than playing Moseley, Plymouth etc again (with respect to them) but we have Saracens next and after that is the teams we need to start winning against to stay up.