I commented previously about us dominating possession in our wins and what would we be like against teams who get a more even share of it. We'll, we found out tonight. That was a terrible performance on a number of levels. Conceding that many points at home is really poor.
Comments about the conditions on Friday nights at Mt Smart. Both teams have the same and we have had two Friday night games there already this season. We train there. No excuses.
RTS and
DWZ with poor handling errors from kicks and kick returns are a killer. Lot of talk was about targeting the Tigers wingers yet its our vastly experienced ones that coughed it up.
Metcalf severely under done. You don't want to look at his stats on tonight's game. Will need to improve significantly and quickly. I also don't know if you can carry both
Metcalf and
Boyd defensively. Both arent strong in that department and without
CHT we have both edges under pressure instead of just the one.
Nuikore on an edge again. I don't like it at all. Isn't agile enough and doesn't provide enough in attack.
Capewell can't come back soon enough.
Too cute with our changes for this game. Can't help but feel the original team that was named would have been better.
Webster had made every right move in the three previous games but feels like he had gone backwards in this game somewhat.
Boyd was easily our best. Still racking up the try assists and pretty much was playing a lone hand most of the game. I think
CHT can feel very hard done by.
Laban also, for the most part looked good too. He is going to be a weapon in coming years.
I can handle us losing, but not the nature of this one. The Tigers did to us in the last 60 minutes what we have been doing to other teams the last three weeks. And they did it at our home.
The Storm will rip us apart if we play like this over there.
Pretty much just need to flush that one and move on.
