My two cents worth
Our forwards consistently won the battle through the middle, both in attack and defence. We have no issues with depth there, apart from maybe too much depth affecting our depth in the outside backs
Defence between the two twenty's was was excellent through the middle, and same inside Souths twenty, right throughout our forward rotation. But our outside backs were poor mostly and Souths got around the too easily. Although again that was mostly down to poor reads from our outside backs.
Goal line defence was very poor, that's a worry. Even considering it's only a trial, still should be able to put up better than that, regardless of which nuffies are there , it's not like we weren't playing against a bunch of nuffies.
Attack wise we were very lacklustre, good at making ground, but no idea what to do with it once we got into Souths twenty, understandable given the roster. It just would have been good to see a bit of creativity from our back up spine, or more threat from our back up centres / wingers.
Of our regular first graders I thought Mahoney was solid, as was Evans, RCG looked OK with limited time, Mennings, despite scoring didn't seem involved enough organising his side of the defence. Alvaro was down on defensive work rate from what i would've expected given his return to carrying less weight. Gower was for mine a standout.
