Joe as been great for us so much more improved in defense & attack when given the chance,I'd rather he coffed up the ball at the opposite end of the pitch than in our own 20,What the problem was Mcshane's quick thinking and giving Eden a early pass to go on and score.Now brain Farts you can't cater for in a match England's Penalty was one when Grix's caught the high ball with no pressure on him silly mistake which resulted in Cas scoring from But it still did not cost us the game a bit of game management cost us the game not get ready for the short kick off and giving a penalty away at the kick off.
So all in all we nearly beat the best side in SL we have to take positive's from that and kick on again for the play off's.


Up The Trin

Glad there are plenty of posts saying how ridiculous the opening comment is.

Arundel is not flash but is for me one of our best three quarters.

As for the incident. A dropped ball 90 metres from the line with 2 players outside you and a line set should Moy be a try.

Also Joe was running an inside line and Sam passed it out towards the wing, it was mis communication and like you say it shouldn't have led to a try when the ball goes to ground 90 meters from your line..

Finally joe always seems to make an impact when on the bench or starting either a try or a pass to his winger or try saving tackle that has to make him in the top 17 at the club!

Shall we see if tomorrows RLE will not have it as the 'critical moment/turning point??

My money might be how Jesse Sene-Lafao took David Fifita out whilst trying to stop a drop goal.

Or why we didn't have a go at a drop goal after David Fifita had scored meaning Cas needed to score twice.
Or

Sene-Lefao took Fifita out but Fifita wasn't square so we can't get too angry about that one. Also, Fifita scored to make it 22-18, we then went up the other end and kicked a penalty when we got one to make it 24-18. Cas then got the ball back from the kick off and scored so where would you have taken this apparently game breaking drop goal to make it 25-18?

The game breaker is probably either the Arundel error which completely changed the momentum of the game or the Huby/Tupou kick off miscommunication at 24-18.

I would go for the short kick off cock up after we went 24-18 up with about 9 mins. to go.

Yep agree

Can't separate the two personally. At 16-0, in their 10m and totally dominant we were looking at potentially 22-0 and game over. Instead it's 16-6 less than a minute later. But yeah, catch the kick off at 24-18 and we probably get a draw minimum.

Or the England penalty when Grix had no issues catching the ball.

Reason I agree with Kev is that we had weathered the storm and got our noses back in front and effectively got a winning position again, but the lack of communication between huby and toupou let cas level up more or less straightaway

Having a new centre was clear today showed our weaknesses against a v good side and a hooker wood v good off the bench but we need better distribution. Reece Lynn was pathetic today.

Please tell us which Fijian you have lined up to fill our defective centre berth?