I've seen glimses of how good he can be but other times he seems to amble around not doing much or not knowing where he should be. But he's definately a big improvement on last year and he has this season and next to improve further

He did take those tries well. What the highlights won’t show is the ref penalising him twice for not playing the ball correctly, and also dropping the ball with no one near him when I think it was the 1st tackle.

Akouala seems to avoid major criticism, he is a major let down as far as I’m concerned.

not on here he doesn't, he's always getting complained about,

That being said he had a fantastic game against saints, and was pretty good against cas, i know hit ups wise we didn't use him much but he was pretty good in the tackle, put several big hits on.

The only problem I have with akouala is that he doesn't seem capable of longer stints, he seems to be 10 minutes and gassed which is pretty useless to us. What he is capable of and does at least for his first 5 minutes is good but it needs to be for half an hour or more.

I think the main gripe with Sita is his lacking minutes, but he doesn’t get a say when to enter the field or when to leave it....is that his fault?

I thought he was pretty good against Cas too, especially in the tackle where he was quite dominant at times. He generally does 10 minutes either side of half time, so 20 mins in total. It would be good to see that extended by 5 minutes per half so that Hill / Cooper are playing 50 minutes, I've never really looked how many minutes Philbin puts in - will try and remember on Thursday night.

BMM and Philbin have both been underused by Price before proving they can do more minutes.

Maybe Sita is the same.

I think so.
Perhaps Sita should be starting prop and we play him until he’s burning out to get a measure.

Sensible plan and would help us start with impact

I thought that, against Cas, the timing of his runs were off (or the timing of the pass). Akauola is something of a one trick pony In that he comes on for 10 minutes either side of half time, takes the ball on the burst a couple of times and scatters a few defenders. It’s all very predictable but that doesn’t make it any easier to defend against. As long as he can keep it all just this side of legal (I think that his technique came under scrutiny from the powers that be last season), and if we can manage a quick play the ball having sucked in tacklers, then it can be quite effective. Against Cas he was over running the pass and wasn’t hitting the line like we know that he can. As I say, I’m not sure where the fault lay.

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