tonight showed where both teams are
the dogs were terrible in the first half but stayed close enough, then they got the rocket from hasler, came out, put some quick points on. even though we got back in it it always felt like the dogs were in control, when they needed to score points they did....easily
our attack was woeful (as it has been all year) and our defence is laughable. the dogs tries were pretty simple stuff, barba did most of it at half pace. yeah we had players out, but iosefa was just about our best player so that negates farah being out imo
benjis defence is the worst ive ever seen it. he was seriously tackling better as a 70kg 17 year old. i dont know if he was a crook shoulder or what it is, but he is making chris sandow look like sonny bill williams atm
sheens continually changes the team around and we have no continuity in attack or defence.
lote gets injured so what do you do? bring on a huge, slow second rower, put him to center and move your right center to left wing... so now you have a regular center and a second rower defending next to each other with benji...where do canterbury go straight after halftime to score....twice...straight there...hasler's no dope
we just arent that good a team this year. we need to be absolute full strength and play at 100% just to be able to compete with the top teams. we are rarely either.