Particularly pleasing when that involved players like young debutant Harry Johnson-Holmes having to catch, draw a man and pass in a short space etc.
Reminds me of some of my best work on the offload stakes: "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS OVAL SHAPED THING? WHY DO I HAVE IT? CAN SOMEONE ELSE TAKE IT?" followed by a magnificently adequate shovelling action to give it to someone hopefully standing right next to me.
Right, thoughts on the game:
Second row were poo. Simmons is as Simmons does. Keep him the fuck away from the ball and we might be OK, but the guy who helped our scrum stand up at International level seems to have given up on the anaerobic bits. And the yellow card was just - well, expected. Staniforth wasn't much better, TBH. Coming up against teams who will have some serious grunt in the donkey department, we're in some trouble.
Front row were mostly poo. But we didn't do ourselves any favours by not pointing out to AFG how wrong he was at scrum time. Yes we got snapped most of the night, but jeez when it was their THP collapsing, shoulders-down, as Robertson towelled him, we didn't say boo!
Paddy Ryan is so fucking lazy. At one point a ruck formed 3m from him and we were getting outnumbered. He had a look, then stopped, and watched as we got driven off it. FFS.
Forwards in general got dominated around the ruck so that is something to work on.
Backs were OK in terms of execution. Gordon still step-passing a bit too much for my liking.
Tactically though we've got it all wrong - going wiiiiiiiiiiiiide like that all the time is going to get us killed, or produce magnificence.
I'm betting on the former unless our forwards start absolutely fisting the opposition.