Quote: PAUL M "On a seperate note, yesterday showed that Houghton is nowhere near ready to play the full 80 or ready to take over from Berro, apart from the odd scoot he was poor. He gave some awful balls and made several wrong decisions.'"
His scooting again was poor generally too. It's as though he goes purely at random, with little consideration given to whether or not the markers/line are set. A couple of times he went with a set defence and made no more than a couple of yards. At other times, we got a quick play with a marker not in position and he failed to go, handing it on to someone who had no option but to run wide of the ruck into a set line. It's something he really needs to work on and in Berrigan he couldn't have a better example to follow. Hopefully the next year and a half or learning will be enough for him to progress.
Berrigan was outstanding in the 15-20 minutes he had at hooker.