Goin to the game, hopefully a cracker!
Shit loss against england but one missed kick was all the difference. Was watching the 7 commentary and they said how 'giteau loves the pressure kicks the most'.
Thanks for that one i thought as he went on to miss the next two including a sitter, and i was reminded of the loss against scotland. He should be retained though i suppose, his kicking form during the super 14 was unreal, like >85% wasn't it? Fucks up a sitter, or even moderately difficult but game winning kick again, than im worried cause world cups are won and lost on that stuff. Gettin paid 800 thousand a year or so has me expecting you can get the ball in bewteen a 5 metre or so radius.
We can always put it down to the greeness of many forwards especially front rowers, and how much better we would be performing with our 4 best front rowers, and Horwill who would also add greater power behind them than sharpe or mumm do, and Palu our most destructive forward out the back as well, the xtra experience and physicality they would brind is sorely missing. Saia Fainga'a hasn't been doing it for me at test level, yet, but neither does edmonds so what choice do we have but to let him learn. Daley will be unreal i reckon in the future, very glad he's red. Actually if theres any reason im happy with robbie choosing the front row he has, its because of the load of good im hoping it wil do for the reds!
I was pretty unipressed with genia on saturday actually, he was much slower than burgess was last week, but that may be due to breaking his thumb in the opening 10 minutes. Its a shame ben lucas is a reserve at the reds on his own behalf (not for the reds) i reckon he would be better than valentine as a back up this weekend. I might be biased though cause i fuckin hate valentine the pest!
Onto the coming game, i hope hodgson gets a better run, i'd take brown off and let him have a dig, has he played much 8 before? AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) should never be left on the bench again, He should be full back or 13, JOC (James O'Connor) on the bench, Marcia to start for diggers, horne pretty ordinary so far, but let him have another crack.
And ive written far more than i intended to as im trying to study fro exams. Damn you G&GR, your worse than facebook or the Xbox, and beer. Grrr