Scoey
Tony Shaw (54)
First 40: Ugh.
Second 40: yay, ugh, yay, wtf?!, c'mon boys! Ugh.
Front row, both starting and reserves went well.
Both hookers were solid.
Locks ok to good. Great to see Simmons back.
Gill - fantastic
Browning was Schatz-esque but carried a little better.
Thomson - I think it was one of his poorer games.
Genia had a mixed bag. I loved his snipes and runs but his kicking was pretty poor.
Frisby tried hard and all things considered went ok as a player but not as a 10.
Ant tried hard but how the fuck he starts over Taps is beyond me. Every minute Taps has been given this season he has shown he is miles ahead of Ant.
Kerevi was great with what he had.
Turner was solid - fuck me I wish we had a kicker tonight but. Some more scoreboard pressure would've been good. Ours core was going up in 5's, theirs in 7's.
Feauai-Sautia was ok in patches but mostly not. Slow and lazy at times.
Hunt had a mixed bag. Some really poor options that cost us points but some great touches too. Trying a bit too hard for mine.
The third 1/4 was where it was at. If we played all our footy like that I would be much happier. Players in motion and working hard off the ball to run lines or run support. Quick pill and scrum half had options in motion with support runners deeper.
But anyway, glad I didn't get up early I as sleep wouldn't come easily after watching that one.
Pretty disappointed in some of the officiating. Dean Greyling elbowing S Fainga'a in the face going unnoticed was poor. Gill was flipped over with the ball in much the same scenario as he did to White and it went unnoticed. The try that was awarded to the prop that crawled over the line I thought was a closer call than Peyper made it out to be and the TMO when asked if the grounding was ok, said yes without hesitation when clearly to me at least, it was far from clear. That try was nothing like Genia's. Genia fumbling the ball but catching it cleanly eventually being deemed to have carried the ball in to touch was odd but I will admit to not knowing how that works and just a bunch of other small crap that annoyed me like kicks out on the full when the kicker had stepped out of the 22 during the kick etc.
Second 40: yay, ugh, yay, wtf?!, c'mon boys! Ugh.
Front row, both starting and reserves went well.
Both hookers were solid.
Locks ok to good. Great to see Simmons back.
Gill - fantastic
Browning was Schatz-esque but carried a little better.
Thomson - I think it was one of his poorer games.
Genia had a mixed bag. I loved his snipes and runs but his kicking was pretty poor.
Frisby tried hard and all things considered went ok as a player but not as a 10.
Ant tried hard but how the fuck he starts over Taps is beyond me. Every minute Taps has been given this season he has shown he is miles ahead of Ant.
Kerevi was great with what he had.
Turner was solid - fuck me I wish we had a kicker tonight but. Some more scoreboard pressure would've been good. Ours core was going up in 5's, theirs in 7's.
Feauai-Sautia was ok in patches but mostly not. Slow and lazy at times.
Hunt had a mixed bag. Some really poor options that cost us points but some great touches too. Trying a bit too hard for mine.
The third 1/4 was where it was at. If we played all our footy like that I would be much happier. Players in motion and working hard off the ball to run lines or run support. Quick pill and scrum half had options in motion with support runners deeper.
But anyway, glad I didn't get up early I as sleep wouldn't come easily after watching that one.
Pretty disappointed in some of the officiating. Dean Greyling elbowing S Fainga'a in the face going unnoticed was poor. Gill was flipped over with the ball in much the same scenario as he did to White and it went unnoticed. The try that was awarded to the prop that crawled over the line I thought was a closer call than Peyper made it out to be and the TMO when asked if the grounding was ok, said yes without hesitation when clearly to me at least, it was far from clear. That try was nothing like Genia's. Genia fumbling the ball but catching it cleanly eventually being deemed to have carried the ball in to touch was odd but I will admit to not knowing how that works and just a bunch of other small crap that annoyed me like kicks out on the full when the kicker had stepped out of the 22 during the kick etc.
