Pre Season Trial 1 V Newcastle: Match Review

[Twizzle]

No point in having a 3, 2, 1 in a pre-season game so give us your thoughts on who the best players were.

What did you think of the newbies and juniors ?

Did you notice any difference in the coaching, like attacking and defensive structures ?

Go

 

[eel01s]

Overall I was very happy with the team's performance in the trial. We looked well coached, had plans in attack, and executed well. Willing in defence, and not easily stripped on the edges

Impressed with most of the new faces, and liked what I saw from Tuavati, Latu, T Brown, Nanva, Twiddle and even Loizou.

Pretty good first game back from Penisini and AMS considering.

R Smith looks a goer, but he is very small in stature. Same with Papalii. Liked Ionghi, you could see how much faster his kick returns are over Gutho. Guymer a workhorse.

 

[Twizzle]

I thought Iongi looked good but not enough involvement, Papalii had more involvement but yeh, he's a little bloke and I wouldn't play him at FB.

I liked Volkman at no 7 and he is a real sharp shooter, the lad can kick.

AMS looks like he's learnt how to tackle.

Some of our forwards were great but so many new names to get used to I couldn't tell who from who at the end.

I thought Dylbro was very good at the start but faded. He played more of a ball playing half and ran the ball more than he did under BA, and his ball playing looked better.

I thought Riley Smith was also impressive.

Coaching wise our defense overall was an improvement, better line speed and enthusiasm and energy. Also our attack I thought was more varied than 5 hit ups and a kick. We hit the ball up from various positions like 2 or 3 passes wide instead of up the middle every time and it was less predictible and we seem to use our backs a lot more.

 

[hindy111]

I saw a good video. A teacher splits the class in two but the students are not aware. They have 3 words to unscramble. One after the other. The first 2 words are different whilst the 3rd is the same. Students raise hands when get answer correct.
The trick is on one side they get words you can't unscramble.

By the time the 3rd (same) question comes what happens? The side that had two easy words to solve answer the 3rd word easily whilst the other side struggle. Reason being confidence was shot......

Tactical changes may of been present but the biggest difference I noticed was our confidence. We looked more composed