The Sinbinning was harsh and really hurt us, but we don't control the game when we need to.
Pole is a real positive and some good signs that Stef may be coming back to form.
I think we faltered despite of the binning. Totally poor referring decision though.
Stef definitely improved tonight. Pole to play every remaining game. Brown to stay at hooker. Offo... He is player of the year.... Call it now. He is the best thing about this club at the moment.
Young fellas look good
Pole - very solid - sound of bought him in as a straight replacement for Mikaele earlier. 167m from 49mins - immense
Junior- exciting, we've needed an x factor back for years - keep him for remainder of year. Needs to work on defence
Matamoya- very hard done by with sin bin on debut - only had 23mins but made 18 tackles and ran almost 60m off 6 runs.
Liddle and Brooks made some dumb plays.
Hastings was quiet
AD sees no good ball at centre. Our halves were missing in red zone and kept hitting up a forward to set up plays that never came.
Halves need to be better
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Summary
Pole, Musgrove, Joe O, Stef outstanding.
brown good in dummy half, has been a solid find
Manamua looks good
Laurie tried hard
outside backs got limited opportunities
hastings is too slow
brooks worst on field by a mile
liddle awful
I think young Jnr Tupou had a great game also you can see the potential his very allusive.
The off season will be good for him work on his defence and he’ll be fantastic next year I think.
Summary
Pole, Musgrove, Joe O, Stef outstanding.
brown good in dummy half, has been a solid find
Manamua looks good
Laurie tried hard
outside backs got limited opportunities
hastings is too slow
brooks worst on field by a mile
liddle awful
I think young Jnr Tupou had a great game also you can see the potential his very allusive.
The off season will be good for him work on his defence and he’ll be fantastic next year I think.
Sorry you are 100% correct. Tupou was very good.
Officially running last on the ladder
Officially running last on the ladder
As long as we use this season to take a hard look at ourselves and improve across the board.
No more complacency
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Pole goes pretty well runs strong
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@frullens Mate that’s not going to happen … things change when personnel changes , it’s a rudderless and leaking ship nothing is going to change 20yrs and now running last someone needs to be held responsible.
Can't wait till Papali'i replaces Tuilagi.
I think is time we replace our 2nd rowers (who are both leaving next year) with 2 of our young crew and get ready due next year.
Garner had been great all year - very professional - but today only ran for 50m
Kelma made ONE run in 80mins......
Time for the future
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The Sinbinning was harsh and really hurt us
Yes, I actually think the rule needs to change. 10 minutes or when the opposition score a try - we conceded four tries in 11 minutes and were a man down for 10 of them. A good team should score multiple times against 12 men. I feel for the young guy because he's going to feel a bit responsible for the collapse.
@frullens Mate that’s not going to happen … things change when personnel changes , it’s a rudderless and leaking ship nothing is going to change 20yrs and now running last someone needs to be held responsible.
This last week must be our rock bottom. 🤞
We played better tonight than we have been, hopefully the powers that be don't get complacent.
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