Couple of things didn't work tonight.
Lamb, Mullett, Ed.Curnow, Wright, Thomas, Cripps, Silvagni, Plowman. Too many without a lot of pace to spare. It made us look very bad on the turnover, the defenders were always out numbered.
Ignoring Charlie, who played OK but perhaps not as good as the goal tally suggests, we had no apparent forward structure again. It's OK to do the fast break crap, but you have to have somebody inside the F50 to kick it to, and you have to kick it to their advantage. And it's no good doing the fast break if it's the Nthmond players streaming past the ball carrier into our F50(See Above).
Finally Cripps is a beast, but he'll have a very short career playing like that all the time. He has to find ways to be useful on the outside or pushing forward.
Lamb, Mullett, Ed.Curnow, Wright, Thomas, Cripps, Silvagni, Plowman. Too many without a lot of pace to spare. It made us look very bad on the turnover, the defenders were always out numbered.
Ignoring Charlie, who played OK but perhaps not as good as the goal tally suggests, we had no apparent forward structure again. It's OK to do the fast break crap, but you have to have somebody inside the F50 to kick it to, and you have to kick it to their advantage. And it's no good doing the fast break if it's the Nthmond players streaming past the ball carrier into our F50(See Above).
Finally Cripps is a beast, but he'll have a very short career playing like that all the time. He has to find ways to be useful on the outside or pushing forward.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"