I watched the last couple of weeks at Joeys, Like a few people on this, I always seek to sit in the same place. There is another on this forum that I generally sit with a few years older.
While Newington had a very solid game against Joeys, you never felt Joeys were out of it. Yesterday, pretty simply you did.
Joeys kicked alot of ball away last week, this week a run at all costs first half punished them.
For the first time I saw their scrum get monstered, and more importantly neither their forwards no backs made ground consistently.
Passes in the backs were often at shoulder height presenting rib cages which Kings took full advantage of.
If joeys want to be anywhere near the top on this, then they must get some go forward up front. Their 10 is being murdered because of the backfoot ball.
In the backs, They Crabbed pretty much all day. Part off this is the ball, Part of it may be not. The Joeys 2nds backline is square and consequently forces sides to square up and they feed off it. The key to 2nds is the pack and the speed of delivery.
The truth of the matter is that the scoreline did not fully reflect the dominance kings had.
Even when the 2nds 5/8 came on, he had little impact because of the poor quality ball.
Justice had a tough day at the back of a retreating scrum.
This pressure played into heaps of Dropped ball from Joeys.
A tough Thursday Game awaits against Scots and I fear the heads are down.
The following game against View could realistically see Joeys 1 from 5.
Hurts to say this as an old boy, but, thats what I saw
Well done to the kings cows, they would be mooing all the way back to parra.
Beef out
