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I don’t think we were that injury ravaged with only poor old Jowitt out of position, the rest would all be in contention for their respective positions ie Arundel for Tupou is a drop but not massive - he’s still a SL standard centre even if he’s not Bills level.
What is far more important is the quality and the
Form of the absentees. With Johnstone, Topou and Ashurst missing we were suddenly lacking what is arguably the best left edge in SL. I think any fair minded person would concede that’s a huge loss against a top team especially.
For the record those who probably would have played last night were Huby, Randall, Batchelor, Kirmond, Johnstone, Tupou and Ashurst so it’s more than three but our strength in depth nearly covered it but not quiete.
Over all last night was positive for us as only Johnstone is out for the season. Big only I concede.