rubber duckie wrote:
4 props
2 oversize wingers
3 halfbacks
Swapped a prop for a halfback mid way....
Not a pacey 3/4 in sight.
What was the coach staff thinking?
Spot on, Bennett has been very naive with this 9s comp.
We played Test Match cricket in a 20/20 match.
Why pick props? Then pick 3 and 3 halfbacks and 2noversize wingers who are out of form and slow?
Ridiculous in my opinion, we should have played a normal team without a 6, without the props and the 13. We should have thrown it around more and kept the ball alive but we seemed to want to play the percentages and the game was over before they had chance to do anything. The worst part is we had zero speed, does Bennett watch Superleague? By the his squad picks I doubt he does.
Theres umpteen players in Superleague who would have done well in 9s but not so well in the 13 a side 80 game.
Players with speed like Liam Marshall, Oliver Gildart, Dan Sarginson, Mark Percival, Tommy Makinson, Adam Swift, Josh Charley, Nial Evalds, Josh Griffin, Jake Bibby, Stefan Ratchford, Brad Dwyer, Mike McMeekin, Joel Tomkins, Ryan Hampshire, Johnny Lomax, Joe Burgess, Zak Hardaker, Jamie Shaul, Jack Walker, Danny Kirkmond,
