Quote Mrs Barista="Mrs Barista"Very encouraging performance. I rarely reference the referee, but Child had two laughable stints on Hull's line today. I thought there was an obstruction in the play before Shaul's (deserved) sin-binning which would have meant us getting a penalty on Wire's 10, as opposed to going a man down. I'd like to see the "knock on" from Talanoa too. He fumbled it backwards but from what I could see there was no separation for the supposed knock on.
Our intensity in defence was great overall today, pretty obviously seeing that we nilled them in the second half despite being hammered for penalties and possession. The players looked switched on and pumped up in the warm-up. Houghton and Ellis in particular were immense in effort, one set Houghton made 5 tackles. Paea and Bowden both led from the front, Westerman looks in very good shape. Feka made little impact though.
On the halves, Rankin was disappointing today, think they scored off a penalty he conceded, not involved enough. Azza looked very lively, always looked a threat. Our attack looks transformed from last year, we seem to have a structure and organisation, and looked to spread the ball much more. Didn't always come off, but way more entertaining than last year.
Our discipline though is absolutely killing us. In both the last 2 matches we've been in the game, absolutely, but gifted quality opposition way too much ball and been appropriately punished. Can't go on if we're to have a good season. Got to take 4 points from the next couple of games. With Carvell and Tuson back, hopefully, Friday is a "must win".'"
can not disagree with this only to add when Horney got sent to the side lines by Childs for having blood on his face then not even affording us the opportunity to bring a replacement on for the full set of 6 we then had to defend on our line was to me as near to cheating to give the other team an unfair advantage as I have ever witnessed childs was a disgrace today we never got anything from the guy in there red zone, I am very proud of the way we preformed today against all the odds I thought we honestly deserved the win but I am very Boyed by the performance and effort we will win plenty this year with effort like this well done Fc today
