Jamie Langley column: It only takes one good display to turn things around.

The last few weeks have been frustrating for us and I’m sure they’ve been frustrating for the fans as well. We know performances haven’t been good enough.

But we’re in a strange situation, which is a difficult one to understand. There’s no easy answer you can give people for why it’s happening and there’s no magic formula for how to fix it.

It can be turned round in the space of 80 minutes if you get a few things right and that’s the way we should be thinking ahead of Sunday’s game against Wigan.

It can affect you the other way too. Look at Quins and Cas, who were going well at the start of the year and winning for fun but have hit a bad patch. One or two defeats and it can become a slippery slope.

Key to getting the right result on Sunday will be the ruck area. It’s a key part of rugby league in general now and whoever wins the ruck usually wins the game.

If you can win it, you speed up the play-the-ball and catch the opposition before they’ve had a chance to organise themselves.

If teams are landing on their front and poking their noses through, the referee will call ‘move’ straight away so you don’t get chance to control the ruck.

It’s all about the initial contact, attempting to be dominant in the tackle and turn people onto their backs, and it’s an area you put hours and hours of work into each week.

We haven’t been aggressive enough in defence and we haven’t been dominating the tackle so it becomes a chicken and egg situation.

If you don’t get the line-speed, you can’t win the ruck. But if you don’t win the ruck, you can’t be aggressive and build line-speed.

It’s a vicious circle and we have to get it right. But we believe we can.

We’re still optimistic and we’re doing all we possibly can to turn this situation around and string some wins together.