Quote: Mr. Zucchini Head "Just watched the game. Pretty standard pre season stuff really. We looked rusty with ball in hand at times, but that would be expected from any team in their first hit out.
As others have said Sa looked very strong and BTW showed up well. Shaul was just Shaul. Wonderful broken field runner, but I thought Rankin's link up play was much the better of the two. Good news that his injury doesn't seem serious.
The halves were a mixed bag for me. I can't comment on the kicking game because we barely had one. The forwards were so dominant we hardly ever kicked from deep. Aside from the chip to Talanoa for his try I though Sneyd put some stinking short kicks in. Especially in the first half. However his range and quality of passing was very good. He threw one into touch near the end, but I didn't see much wrong with the pass. I just thought Talanoa wasn't expecting it. Same with Pryce. He had a couple of passes go to ground but he also showed some lovely soft hands at times.
One thing I really was pleased with was our line speed which I thought was really good throughout.
On the whole. A good hit out, but we'll learn a lot more at weekend.'"
Pretty much how I saw it.
