UP 18-12 MCGREGOR BENCHES LOMAX AND PAYS THE PRICE
In the 50th minute of the game between the Dragons and the Warriors, Ben Hunt puts up a bomb, Zac Lomax flies through the air, knocks the ball back to Makaele Ravalawa who runs through to score a try. But he didn’t. The touch judge says Lomax propelled the ball forward (he didn’t) and so it’s a handover to the Warriors.
That’s it for Lomax though, despite having already scored a try and being the team’s goalkicker, coach Paul McGregor hooks the kid and puts Euan Aitken on. That’s the same Aitken who had been pretty darn horrible all year and had been recently demoted from starting centre to the bench — for good reason.
The Warriors pile on the points scoring a try minutes later (not Aitken’s fault it was on the other side) and then two more both of which benefited from poor defensive reads by Aitken.
If Aitken was not good enough to play 80 minutes, why does McGregor think he can manage 20?