Once the hour team got shuffled as hoped, got up and excited for the game. Sit down, right on kick off, camera cuts to Klein...let out an audible sigh
Those first few sets when we were gaining 30m started getting that sinking feeling, but we built into the game eventually.
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RTS had an absolute game, what a
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EIT came on for
Clark I assume? Didn't look out of place on debut, another good young forward and seemed to get decent minutes.
- Another massive shift from
Ford, poor bloke is earning his paycheck. Feel like any detractors would be eating their words if he was coming off the bench with a fit pack as was intended.
- A lot of good running from
Healey, opened up a different side of our attack. His passing is still very much a work in progress at NRL level,
Egan is elite in that respect.
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Clark having another top notch game
- Capewell looking good back on the edge as expected
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CNK copping a bit of heat. But he already had a niggle and then did something in the first half down Phins end. Is a good fit at centre in the current make up, shouldn't be judged on that game.
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Taine getting absolutely monstered all game, but kept turning up.
Going to be a sore boy tomorrow.
- Mt. Smart playing surface with the dew is such a drain as a home ground, it makes for bog average footy if we are being honest. We play better footy in Aus where it's not as slippery.
- It's an interesting situation a surface tonight that probably suits a
CNK type fullback, whereas a dry track next week I'd take a
Taine with our current team make up. Maybe we can morph them in the off season.
Overall a clunky performance with the ball, but completely expected given all the outs and ins. Preferred the overall game to the Knights and Titans games, the teamlist looked more balanced. Feel like we might have some more injuries, so may not even see that squad named next week no idea who comes in at this point.
Feel like we put the cue in the rack with 10mins to go, which was frustrating. I guess that's the game style that's been drilled into them, but not sure we have the cattle available to really nail our defensive assignments in those scenarios at present and it played out that way.
Not the end of the world, looking forward to a dry track next week in Sydney as long as we don't have any more outs to see how this list goes.
