Jimmyo it is a little bias but i look at it this way
Cayless>>> OMealy (Omealy isn't the same, over the hill)
Moimoi = Mason
Hindy>>> Ryan
SBW>>> Ian
Mateo>>>Matuia (disagree but this guy is over-rated, talked up by mason imo)
Our bench wins by a country mile IMO. We don't have as many name players as they do, but Cayless, Hindy, Moimoi and Mateo have alot of class, followed by the support of Robenson (even his running game is under-rated, imo better than Ryan), Riddell, Cordoba, Wagon. We have alot of experiance, their bench is young and once their starting pack comes off they lose alot of impact. If you get them on the backfoot early they are gone imo. Our pack is fitter, and more versitile. Mason, OMealy and some of their lesser known props (Armitt, Hickey etc) open holes. If we take them upfront, run them ragged, Marsh will open them up.
On Kicks, turn Utia around, he is slower to turn than grothe. In attack bomb their short wingers, also kick in behind the line. Pattern is a good fullback, but isn't much of a counter attacking fullback imo. If we target their back 3, don't try and find the line, keep them running, we can put a cricket score on them.
If we play a percentage game we should have too much class, they don't have much ability to score long range tries (assuming we limit their offloads) imo, slow outside backs (tonga the quickest of them all, and is probably slower than Inu, Hayne, Tahu and Grothe) is their main problem.
