Our best game of the year for mine.
Couple of dumb tries against not withstanding I felt we controlled that game well, LOVED the repeat sets.
Few thoughts from some players
Tomkins-we look sooo much better with him in our side, bit sloppy at the start but seemed to click.
Maumalo-couple of silly errors but otherwise ok, needs more impact
Kata- Needs to cut out the errors and hell be something special, in saying that he creates opportunities and is out playing Hurrell at the moment.
Hurrell looking in good shape but seems to have lost some of his impact, nice try though.
Manu-Solid game, dont remember any errors?
Chad- looks good when he takes on the line
Shaun Johnson- beautiful alround game for him, felt both his running and kicking game went up a level.
Ikahihifo didnt notice much from him
Friend- gotta admit I was in the "hes over the hill" camp but shit hes had a couple of bloody good games!
Matulino-toss up between him and
Shaun Johnson for mom, some awesome go forward, can someone PLEASE back him up for those offloads that go begging?
RFM progressed well
Thompson on the up
Mannering had a solid game leading by example.
Havilli-looks good for about a minute and then outta puff, was keen to see what he could do but he can gtfo if he cant sort his fitness out.
Hoffman/Lillyman both backed up well after origin solid go forward
Gubb had a good game, really felt bad when he got denied
All in all alot better than previous weeks hope this is the spark our season needed. Need to sort our defense pretty quickly though.