dont know if it is just me but i feel like we won this game in spite of the coaching.
Kearney continues to use Fusitua as a battering ram instead of as a finesse player where he excels.
To start the game, i counted the first 4 hit ups as being by backs. wtf.
Then after each restart Fusitua, was first or second hit up into the meat of the forwards. Supercoach is just asking for him to get injured again.
When Sao HAD to come on (as he was replacing Blair), we actually got some good go foward and second phase from his offloads (3 were good, 1 was abit silly) and it actually looked liked a decent middle forward out there. Took 9 rounds....
And then when Lawton was making great inroads from dummy half, Kearney decides to rotate him off. Not sure if Kearney knows the saying "play the hot hand", but i dont understand why he couldnt delay the hooker rotation. Didnt appear to be a fitness issue with Lawton. If Roache hadnt gone down injured, we probably wouldnt have seen Lawton again for the back end of the game, where he made those searing breaks which eventually resulted in the game clinching try.
To me it feels like this team would go better if it just ran itself and ignored the coach.
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