Great 1st 40 ..poor 2nd 40
I want to criticize a few ...but I will leave it for the moment
Tuilagi and Lucy very good ......Simpkin was very solid ...Brooks ok .....Hasting tries hard .......Kenny was very strong ...Roberts was ok ...Nofa better than usual
Noffo was good in defence tonight, Simpkin was good Brooks was ok
Hastings jury out
Laurie not sold on him
our centres are weak
our forwards are good
3 Joffa
2 simpkin
1 brooks
Is there radio tonight?
Yes, did you catch it?
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Positives:
Effort in D for 60 mins
We looked to have much better structure and more expansion play in attack than last year
Our line speed in defence is MUCH better than last year.
Ken M had a great game
Kelma & LL were huge although Kelma gets lazy in defence
I thought Brooks had a good game
Hastings wasnt horrible
Both centres looked sharp in attack
Simpkins had his best game and didnt suck
Was very pleasantly surprised with Peacheys defence and thought he added something in attack. I might consider starting him at 13 and bringing Joffa on later
Negatives
Hastings is not the messiah
Stupid schoolboy mistakes (PTB errors etc)
Our goal line defence
Gildarts defence
We couldnt maintain intensity/energy/effort and lift when needed
Overall I was actually pretty pleased and we played much better than I expected. Even with the outs that is still a star studded team that beats ours man for man.
Positives:
Effort in D for 60 mins
We looked to have much better structure and more expansion play in attack than last year
Our line speed in defence is MUCH better than last year.
Ken M had a great game
Kelma & LL were huge although Kelma gets lazy in defence
I thought Brooks had a good game
Hastings wasnt horrible
Both centres looked sharp in attack
Simpkins had his best game and didnt suck
Was very pleasantly surprised with Peacheys defence and thought he added something in attack. I might consider starting him at 13 and bringing Joffa on later
Negatives
Hastings is not the messiah
Stupid schoolboy mistakes (PTB errors etc)
Our goal line defence
Gildarts defence
We couldnt maintain intensity/energy/effort and lift when needed
Overall I was actually pretty pleased and we played much better than I expected. Even with the outs that is still a star studded team that beats ours man for man.
Fair summary 👍
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Was Hughes the difference?
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Hastings doesn't walk on water pretty ordinary
everyone tried hard in defence simpkin was very solid, Brooks had an ok game
@tigerlily jeez bit harsh on Brooks
I think Hastings did sweet FA
No I don’t think I’m being harsh at all. I’m just a frustrated fan that would like our halve back to stand up and take complete control of a game and own it.
Hughes change the momentum of that game when he needed to and his team mates followed.
Let’s be honest we should of won that game.
@tigerlily before the game everyone was saying Hastings was the 7 and the general. He was a big disappointment basically a passenger out there
Brooks played pretty well
@tigerlily before the game everyone was saying Hastings was the 7 and the general. He was a big disappointment basically a passenger out there
Brooks played pretty well
Oh! I didn’t realise Madge made him the main ball player and general.
We gave up 26 points to a 15 man team……
16, you forgot the ref.
Maguires use of the bench once again lost another game .. LL was tanked at 1/2 time . The game was there to have but as usual the coach let the dominance slip by leaving tanked players on the field ! 2 forwards not used until well into the 60th minute mark by then the advantage was gone .
If Brooks does that step back inside into the defence one more time… we had overlaps twice and he killed it rather than give early ball to the outside backs.
Yep, he needs a different go to play
It’s like he is totally unaware of the defence coming across in cover and steps straight into them. Fortunately he put the play in the rack for the second half. Much better short kicking game from Brooks today.
