PopTart wrote:
Fifita is a must play. I think every other player has a rotation option though some are pretty guaranteed if no injuries.
Even Ashurst isn't the player he was last year. He tackles hard with high numbers and runs hard but he's hitting players not gaps now. That could be that he is being watched or that his service isn't as good but it isn't the same.
The one thing I would change is Fifita starting. I prefer him off the bench.
I'd go as far as to say Fifita, Pauli and Wood all coming off the bench at the same time to be fresh and change the momentum of the game. Start with England and Huby.
Agree about Fifita.
It's a waste of his talents to use him to soften the opposition up during "the arm wrestle", far better to introduce him when the opposition are tiring and the same can be said for Pauli.
England on the other hand seems at his best, ripping into the opposition early doors
We have to be "boring" and complete sets and try to find a decent kicking game, even if this means finding touch, rather than kicking deep.
How many times do we have a nothing kick, as good as a pass, to the opposition FB/ Wing and allow the opposition to start their set on their own 40 ?