The bench won us the game tonight
Tuivaiti, Doorey, Walker and TDS, all incredible tonight
We need to have serious talks on benching Paulo
TDS finally a good game!
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"Pezet had 3 runs, 5 kicks, 2 errors, and 3 try assists. Let's be frank, two of his try assists were fluke kick/regather efforts by others and his try a fluke kick/regather by himself. Ryles played possum about what he has to work on in the press…"
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"We had 20% of the ball their first stint on the field.
Expecting both to get better as the season goes on . Game is too quick for the best of middles at the moment . "
Expecting both to get better as the season goes on . Game is too quick for the best of middles at the moment . "
"I feel JDB needs to start, towards the end when JBD came back on our defence felt more a bit clean through the middle."
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Paulo and JDB are big concerns as starting forward. Both are too old and slow to be starting against elite and athletic forwards. JR but all the experience forwards back on the field to finish game but then you could see our attack suffer. JDB and Paulo slowed down our ruck speed with the ball completely. Tuivita, Doorey and Walker changed the game with their ruck speed. Time to get Moretti back into the team
Yeah Id keep Paulo just for the rotation with Sam and Paulo in his second shift lifted. JDB though isnt offering much. Walker should be there instead.
I feel JDB needs to start, towards the end when JBD came back on our defence felt more a bit clean through the middle.
TDS was really good, but so was Riley.
Riley was back to his best. Fighting for everything. Changing Staggs etc
Paulo's first stint was ordinary but I thought his second stint was great. He was in everything, often first or second in the kick chase and had a good impact.
I agree, Paulo 100 % improved on his second stint. But we looked alot more intimating overall with Sam and Tuilangi. Still think theres work for Ryles to do to get the mix right.
Tuivaiti to start, and Junior on the bench could be a really easy fix. Honestly, I haven't seen Tui have a bad game yet, give him the start and see how he handles it.