Well calmed down and a little more disappointed than I should be for the second game.
Shows how important Gutho is, he goes off and the shape of the defence suffers.
Blake is possibly the most physically gifted player on the roster, but is a mental midget with absolutely no feel for the game. 6’3” at least and offers so little in the air,can’t pass in tight situations , How many times was Sivo left stranded. At best he should be on the wing with Simmonson in the centres , as Blake is a turnstile and was grade F - (possibly worse than that)
Sivo did nothing really wrong, the odd mistake more than made up for with his general game.
The halves were much more energetic , Drown is a hairsbreadth from breaking through, very encouraging. Mitch was again good, a couple of missed conversion did come back to bite us.
Reggie and Junior are class
Hopgood was more than good, although one bad miss did lead to a try, seeing he set up 3 , forgiven
Doorey did a good job, and would be terrific coming off the bench when needed. Cartwright continues to work hard and impressed.
At the ground what was noticeable and is a coaching issue, when Sharks came forward they mostly had 2/3 runners behind the ball carrier and there was some swift changes in direction which we don’t seem to do. We wait for the forwards to do the grunt, when we ball play as we did in the second half, chances happen ( just don’t give it to Blake when swift sharp passes are needed).
Hodgson is a good dummy half, but as a defender when players like Moylan run at him and continually wrong foot him, that’s a problem.He can be slow to react and that opens the ruck.
