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1) Covell kicked a 60 metre drop out. Does anything more need to be said?
2) Our defence is a bit of of myth. Have we been bluffed by scowling faces, tough guy tactics and the odd bit hit. IMO we are still mentally weak. My reasons are these.
In 5 matches this year we have conceded points in the last 5 minutes of the first half. Total 30 points. We have conceded a further 53 points in the last quarter of matches. Our total "against" is 169. 83 points in the tired end of halves represents a whopping 49.11 % of the total points scored against us. That indicates a major problem with concentration.
Side note: 33 of the 53 points scored against us in the final quarter of matches have been in the last 3 weeks. So it's a downward trend as well.
3) As with last year Kingston offers very little in attack. However, that doesn't make de Gois the saviour because he's the one on the field when the concentration wanes. Maybe Kinga has it over de Gois for talkies.
4) We didn't play as well as people are making out last night. We won the penalties 9-3. We had 6 more sets than them 41(35) yet our completions rate was a paltry 63%(77%)
We had the ball for 51% of the time and a majority of that was in their half. When we did score there were 2 individual efforts (Pom and Bird), 1 fluke from a rebound and on from an offload. We made 40 less tackles and made 300 more metres. That's the realistic breakdown. How do you lose that game?
5) I was not a fan of Anderson moving into the centres as I wasn't convinced he could read defence well enough. He's proven that over and over again. We need a different right centre. Williams isn't the answer either. I don't know what is to be honest but perhaps Steppa should get a shot there.
6) IMO the bench rotation was poor last night. When the Cows came back at us from about 60 minutes onwards the pack we had on was Selmes, Douglas, Steppa, de Gois, Weston and Gallen. Far too inexperienced (yes probably by necessity). One of either Looloo or Stapler should of been on at all times. Williams first try came on a short side where they had only 3 blokes to our 6. Worst of it was the 6 compressed into about 10 metres and Smith still got Williams outside our line. Who was calling that structure? No one would be my guess as there wasn't enough experience out there to read it - apart from Jason Smith.
7 Misi's lost his mojo. Injured? Whatever, he's not the bloke who debuted in fine style a few weeks ago. Need Kearney back for this year and long term need to buy a fullback.
Maybe more later
2) Our defence is a bit of of myth. Have we been bluffed by scowling faces, tough guy tactics and the odd bit hit. IMO we are still mentally weak. My reasons are these.
In 5 matches this year we have conceded points in the last 5 minutes of the first half. Total 30 points. We have conceded a further 53 points in the last quarter of matches. Our total "against" is 169. 83 points in the tired end of halves represents a whopping 49.11 % of the total points scored against us. That indicates a major problem with concentration.
Side note: 33 of the 53 points scored against us in the final quarter of matches have been in the last 3 weeks. So it's a downward trend as well.
3) As with last year Kingston offers very little in attack. However, that doesn't make de Gois the saviour because he's the one on the field when the concentration wanes. Maybe Kinga has it over de Gois for talkies.
4) We didn't play as well as people are making out last night. We won the penalties 9-3. We had 6 more sets than them 41(35) yet our completions rate was a paltry 63%(77%)
We had the ball for 51% of the time and a majority of that was in their half. When we did score there were 2 individual efforts (Pom and Bird), 1 fluke from a rebound and on from an offload. We made 40 less tackles and made 300 more metres. That's the realistic breakdown. How do you lose that game?
5) I was not a fan of Anderson moving into the centres as I wasn't convinced he could read defence well enough. He's proven that over and over again. We need a different right centre. Williams isn't the answer either. I don't know what is to be honest but perhaps Steppa should get a shot there.
6) IMO the bench rotation was poor last night. When the Cows came back at us from about 60 minutes onwards the pack we had on was Selmes, Douglas, Steppa, de Gois, Weston and Gallen. Far too inexperienced (yes probably by necessity). One of either Looloo or Stapler should of been on at all times. Williams first try came on a short side where they had only 3 blokes to our 6. Worst of it was the 6 compressed into about 10 metres and Smith still got Williams outside our line. Who was calling that structure? No one would be my guess as there wasn't enough experience out there to read it - apart from Jason Smith.
7 Misi's lost his mojo. Injured? Whatever, he's not the bloke who debuted in fine style a few weeks ago. Need Kearney back for this year and long term need to buy a fullback.
Maybe more later
