Serge
Fred Wood (13)
The livestream seems to show Souths rely very heavily on getting the ball wide as quickly and by any means possible to their speedy outside backs and hope they can run around the opposition. When this doesn't work they don't appear to have a Plan B. The forwards were average and poor scrummagers and the inside backline play had little flair. They really missed Cooper in this regard. I wouldn't rate Souths a benchmark team unless they can show more all around capability from 1 through 15.
While it didn't affect the eventual outcome, I heard that Souths Reggies went to uncontested scrums at half time however their 3rds were able to play contested, meaning they must have had qualified front rowers on the bench to replace their struggling Reggies starting front rowers. Perhaps the competition rules should be adjusted to include some form of penalty in lower grades (already exists for Prems) and the QRRA implement a system whereby the referee from the immediate lower grade match advises the next higher grade referee if the lower grade playing team finished a match with contested scrums - thus hopefully being able to remove this uncontested scrums blight on the game.
While it didn't affect the eventual outcome, I heard that Souths Reggies went to uncontested scrums at half time however their 3rds were able to play contested, meaning they must have had qualified front rowers on the bench to replace their struggling Reggies starting front rowers. Perhaps the competition rules should be adjusted to include some form of penalty in lower grades (already exists for Prems) and the QRRA implement a system whereby the referee from the immediate lower grade match advises the next higher grade referee if the lower grade playing team finished a match with contested scrums - thus hopefully being able to remove this uncontested scrums blight on the game.