Pfitzy
Nathan Sharpe (72)
Fairvale brought basically one team to the Renegades' home ground today, and dished us up in Seconds before getting hosed in Firsts.
Lots of big Islander boys as usual and a few runaway tries off our awful mistakes on a very wet pitch. We keep getting 5 or 10 players to training and its basically how our season will go. The basics weren't there - when you have a scrum inside your 22, the flyhalf stands back his 5 metres, and then kicks the fuck out of it, right? Nope - today it was "let's pass it three times in the mud, drop it, and let them kick ahead for a try". Our lineout was shit, though our scrum was going OK - it was a pretty neutral affair with them too big to push around in the mud, and us too low to be pushed around.
I barely ever got near the ball because Fairvale kicked a lot (cleverly) and our guys kept chucking it wide. Again, 0 tackles from 1 attempt, and a couple of rucks hit. I got a scrum taken off me which I'm not happy about. No excuses, I just got driven back.
Lots of big Islander boys as usual and a few runaway tries off our awful mistakes on a very wet pitch. We keep getting 5 or 10 players to training and its basically how our season will go. The basics weren't there - when you have a scrum inside your 22, the flyhalf stands back his 5 metres, and then kicks the fuck out of it, right? Nope - today it was "let's pass it three times in the mud, drop it, and let them kick ahead for a try". Our lineout was shit, though our scrum was going OK - it was a pretty neutral affair with them too big to push around in the mud, and us too low to be pushed around.
I barely ever got near the ball because Fairvale kicked a lot (cleverly) and our guys kept chucking it wide. Again, 0 tackles from 1 attempt, and a couple of rucks hit. I got a scrum taken off me which I'm not happy about. No excuses, I just got driven back.