Gov - I'm convinced more than ever the player we missed was Gov, he has the ability to deliver some stability when we try to change momentum, then he can kick the eyes out of a crow at 50m, and when he does we change direction and all of a sudden we score.
Walsh might be professional and extremely talented, but it's obvious he's struggling fitness and strength wise having missed a chunk of pre-season.
Cerra might be cleared to play, but COVID or something has impacted his running ability.
De Koning struggled a bit, he started the season like a train but has gone off the boil, he might be carrying an injury and has lost elevation and timing in ruck contests. Some of this will be due to the weird umpiring penalties we have copped in the ruck, we shouldn't be changing the ruck tactics, we should be asking for a please explain from certain umpires about certain decisions and telling Pittonet and De Koning to ignore the aberration. When an umpire does a shizen bounce it's not the ruck's responsibility to clear out and give his opponent a free run, the ruck has a right to hold his ground and defend the fall of the ball! But the real problem is that when Nankervis does it he is not penalised, but when Pitto does it he's pinged for blocking, it's bullshizen variable umpiring!
Given the good form of BigH and Charlie, we have become a bit more predictable, we stopped picking out those smaller options as often and just started bombing it long to the taller timber too often.
Walsh might be professional and extremely talented, but it's obvious he's struggling fitness and strength wise having missed a chunk of pre-season.
Cerra might be cleared to play, but COVID or something has impacted his running ability.
De Koning struggled a bit, he started the season like a train but has gone off the boil, he might be carrying an injury and has lost elevation and timing in ruck contests. Some of this will be due to the weird umpiring penalties we have copped in the ruck, we shouldn't be changing the ruck tactics, we should be asking for a please explain from certain umpires about certain decisions and telling Pittonet and De Koning to ignore the aberration. When an umpire does a shizen bounce it's not the ruck's responsibility to clear out and give his opponent a free run, the ruck has a right to hold his ground and defend the fall of the ball! But the real problem is that when Nankervis does it he is not penalised, but when Pitto does it he's pinged for blocking, it's bullshizen variable umpiring!
Given the good form of BigH and Charlie, we have become a bit more predictable, we stopped picking out those smaller options as often and just started bombing it long to the taller timber too often.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"