Firstly, game day observations. Christchurch churning out a cracker of a blue sky day with a full crowd in attendance, set the scene perfectly and highlighted the love/hype/respect for the club/brand currently!! How good was it to hear Mick Ennis abuse the english language again, Fox sport NRL intro music!! officiating allowing a game that saw a lot of ball in play and maximum spectator enjoyment, truly one of the better games I have watched in a while and yet again confirming NRL is easily the best oval ball entertainment by a mile!
Boom! have we finally arrived as a club with a system that echoes all the way to end of the corridor? Each player that took the field today was coached, well coached. It was a pleasure watching a swarm of enthusiasm, talent, commitment and physicality move in the same direction trusting the game plan and dare I say it the "process".......
Teamwork and belief player of the day for me, by a long way. However some noteworthy individual performance, RTS is going to be a huge part in our success this year whether that be in
defence-attack, calmness or experience.. a lot to like. I really thought Laban and Tupouniua offered a bit of X factor, bent the line and ran unorthodox lines that created space.
Paul Roache really took his chances as did
Geronimo Doyle. Most importantly I truly thought our weakest link was equal to our best. Maximum kudos to to the organisation, well fuckin done.
I was really hoping that
Ali Leiataua was going to confirm the talent that this forum has me incredibly excited about, really didn't see enough from him today to confirm or deny.
