Hearty player, really hearty i thought. Certainly never disgraced himself. For a little bloke i thought he might be get rag dolled a bit but he holds his own in contact well enough.
As far as on the shifts are concerned i noticed in the trials he tends to take that 2nd man sweeping play of
SJ from a standing start as opposed to
Charnze who's taking that pass already at pace. Think this is due partly to his size where little guys normally beat bigger blokes from a standing start and its just what he's used to.. I think for our shapes to be effective we really need that 2nd man to be on the backdoor at speed. He did adjust once and we did create an overlap but i think the pass went behind Dallin.
However by and large tho we were running those plays off static ball which meant we hadnt really bent the line in the middle and compressed the defence,, hence when we went wide we were generally running at numbers or easy pickings for their outsides to chase out. Need more
AFB and Marata power game.
Early days yet.