Few thoughts, firstly lowest quality game of the restart so far.
Both teams making some bad errors and poor decisions.
The main concern for me was out attack which was very flat. At time’s our strike runners were ahead of the ball carrier who was looking to find them.
Thought Zak had a great game but I’d still rather he play centre with French at 1 as teams can really go at French in the line on the wing.
Manfreddi worked hard but for me the centre position isn’t for him.
Was impressed with Clarke when he came on, looked like he wanted to make an impact and did. Burgess didn’t really put his hand up and that is a worry.
End of sets was poor, won’t have helped losing TL but Smith or Hastings needed to be more dominant.
I thought Powell was great, huge in D at critical times, I would still like to see Amir Bourouh on the bench. The new system cries out for an explosive 9 and that isn’t Powell.
Positives again were the youngsters and the 2 points.
Harvard in particular I thought was great.
Tactics....not sure they worked today.
Back to the drawing board Mr Lam.
