3 - RTS - pretty hard to go past RTS again
2 - JFH - thought this was his best game so far as a Wah
1 - Leka - a really strong 45 minutes, on both sides of the ball, which almost won us the game
HMs:
Pompey - almost gave him a point, thought he was really strong
Clark - his usual
TMM - brought spark - almost gave him a point, too
TSS - getting better week by week
Vaimauga - is consistently good
Boyd, CHT - combination is beginning to build - however, we need to start playing some football earlier, rather than waiting until we're either chasing or comfortably ahead
DM: Egan - thought he had his worst game of the season
Other thoughts: for the first 50 minutes of the game I thought we were done - while there was so much space on attack we did so little with it and just made dumb error after dumb error. Then we started playing some football and I thought we would win, until the bunker took the game away (it probably was a knock on, but was it conclusive enough to be overturned if ref awarded it as a try?). So yeah, we need to start moving the ball around a lot earlier. That's the only way we'll be competitive in the playoffs, imo. Defend hard, obviously, and don't be stupid about it, but we need to create doubt along with putting the opposition under fatigue.
CNK - monster efforts, as usual, but is it just me or is he a bit of a play killer when he gets the ball in the red zone?
Niukore much more involved offensively, which was great, but his lack of defensive effort on the Fox, and in the scramble for that second try, were pretty frustrating.
EIT might be the Wah Goggins, and he played with real effort for all his minutes, but it was always going to be hard for a rookie to back up last week's performance.
Capewell's looking a bit cooked.
Dunno how we'll go against Manly next week. They don't seem particularly interested in defense, but the style we're playing unless we're forced to do otherwise, I don't know if we'll be able to exploit that.
