Give Harry a go

[Thryleon]

The thing is that we didn’t have any other options;  Lobbe is injured, Flip has played half a game, Harry may have been an option but only if there was no-one else and De Koning, while named as an emergency, is a long way off.

I thought that Casboult and Jones both gave good contests in the ruck, and we won the clearances, so Witts’ dominance in hitouts didn’t really amount to much.

I’d prefer to see Harry honing his key forward craft in the NBs rather than being thrown to the wolves as an underweight, inexperienced ruckman.

But in this game we unsettled the line up so much that we neither blooded kids, nor formulated a truly effective looking tactic that might win us the game.

It was a bit of a misfire.  At least we have made sure we have burned polson in the process.