Re: Top of the Table Clash : Sun Feb 18, 2018 7:00 pm
Cunny was ok despite not passing the HIA, was back on the touch line smiling. Dragon, first suspicion was possibly a cracked rib, would be surprised if he plays next week, he didn’t come out of the sheds in the second half.Don’t think the negative is a small negative, first half 7 penalties 5 of them for interference at the ptb, far far far too many. Difference was experience, Fev knew what to do to win the penalty, whereas some of our players don’t have the game nounce to know how to get the penalty!
Meadows played well, but his lack of experience showed, winning the ruck then not trying to gain his feet. Kicking down field into space when getting the ball dead would have been better.
Fev came out in the second half with one plan, try to bully, and we got sucked in, tbh though they played there best Rugby with 12 players.
We are playing much more like a team playing for each other, fitness is good, tackle technique is actually much better than last year (thanks wardy) but they need to be much more disciplined.
Overall the game got very scrappy, had we played smart it would have been 60 plus.
Players really do need to learn where to re start as well, the 40/20 was a classic example