super_coach
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I should start with Fitzhenry because he's a player who Ive been doubting all year. Tonight I thought he was excellent, especially out of dummy-half. I know we've tried him at Hooker before but maybe its worth another go. His ball distribution was however fairly average and I thought that this had a stifling effect on the Tigers attack. Maybe its harsh to blame him entirely for some of those loopy passes they were throwing. Galea was guilty of this on a number of occasions.
Prince and Hodgson, our two classy players combined brilliantly for that second try. It gave me so much hope that we might start putting on some decent tries especially now that Hodgson is trailing the ball runner and hitting the gap.
In the first half Gibbs was the only forward who was really muscling up to his big Penrith counterparts. I felt that Skandalis got totally outplayed by Clinton and the Tiges were generally getting bettled coming off their own line. But in the second half it was a completely different story. Skando was running a bit wider and hitting it up really strongly as was Lanfranchi. I liked how both Bronson and Boof were also getting their arms free for offloads-it adds more continuity to our play.
And now I come to our centres...well the +ves first Wilson scored a try and Elford saved two through intercepts. However Elford's defence in the first half was terrible and Wilson looked equally bad in attack. How good would it be to have an elusive player in the centres along with the bigger, more solid player (Elf or Wilson) At the moment we have two centres who are exactly alike and two second-rowers who are interchangable. Can we please get some varriation in there? :roll:
Finally it was good to see Duff have such a solid debut. His defence was excellent, he scored a try and generally he looks extremely agile ala Hodgson.
Prince and Hodgson, our two classy players combined brilliantly for that second try. It gave me so much hope that we might start putting on some decent tries especially now that Hodgson is trailing the ball runner and hitting the gap.
In the first half Gibbs was the only forward who was really muscling up to his big Penrith counterparts. I felt that Skandalis got totally outplayed by Clinton and the Tiges were generally getting bettled coming off their own line. But in the second half it was a completely different story. Skando was running a bit wider and hitting it up really strongly as was Lanfranchi. I liked how both Bronson and Boof were also getting their arms free for offloads-it adds more continuity to our play.
And now I come to our centres...well the +ves first Wilson scored a try and Elford saved two through intercepts. However Elford's defence in the first half was terrible and Wilson looked equally bad in attack. How good would it be to have an elusive player in the centres along with the bigger, more solid player (Elf or Wilson) At the moment we have two centres who are exactly alike and two second-rowers who are interchangable. Can we please get some varriation in there? :roll:
Finally it was good to see Duff have such a solid debut. His defence was excellent, he scored a try and generally he looks extremely agile ala Hodgson.
