Crisis time at Titans

Exactly how Rotherham Titans manage to avoid it is the big question following their worst performance of the season in Saturday's 16-11 defeat at Moseley.

It was a game they should have won at a canter. Any of the top four, five or six sides would have put the Birmingham men through the mincer and, leading 11-6 with 18 minutes to go, even the misfiring Titans should have been good enough to claim their first win in ten games.

But they weren't.

So where do they go from here with six games left in the Championship?

Moseley are now four points behind, Ealing seven - and they both meet in West London next week, so either or both will pick up points to tighten the gap even further. Unless Titans get their act together - and quickly - it could all come down to a nerve-shredding final game at Ealing.

Relegation isn't an option at Clifton Lane and that's clearly on the agenda in the boardroom. Some serious decisions and soul-searching will have to be made over the next few weeks.

But I don't believe that axing Mark Jones is the answer.

The amiable Welshman is hurting more than at any time in his career; his angst fuelled by members of the squad failing to adhere to simple discipline demands. One slip in what is a cutting environment can spell disaster - precisely what we saw when Tom Calladine stupidly took out a player in their air at Moseley, was yellow carded, and his 14 team-mates let slip that lead to conceed 10 damning points against a side struggling to do even the simple things right.

But that aside, Rotherham weren't good enough to build on Darran Harris' third minute pack-driven try. Apart from a flying start, it should have also send a worrying message to the home front eight that they were in for a tough afternoon.

It didn't and now Rotherham are staring right down the barrel.

In this Friday's Advertiser, we'll take a long, hard look at the in-camp problems. It's time to talk tough.

But before then we'd love to hear YOUR views, send them to me at [email protected] or by Twitter at @rothtisersport