The Wests Tigers CUBS played Canberra Raiders in a Jersey Flegg development match on Saturday morning before our actual Jersey Flegg game. The match is on Bar TV for those keen to watch.
Firstly not sure what is going on at the Wests Tigers communications dept but absolutely pathetic the club could not tell members & fans about this game beforehand or even a match report afterwards.
I only found out because
@jrtiger had his finger on the pulse.
I watched the game last night, no team lists but could identify about 90% of them. It was a team comprising our best U19 players (those obviously not playing Flegg or Schools comps atm). We had a couple of the highly rated Matts boys in the team Jhevon Lele & James Lanyon I think it was on the right wing.
We won the game with a try in the final minute and, all in all, was impressed with nearly every player who got a run. It was a game where there was no individual brilliance but the team looked well drilled, plenty of effort and minimal mistakes.
Hard to hone in on a few as our best but Archie Duncombe played prop/lock and was consistently strong on both sides of the ball, Marc Tannous marshalled the team really well and had 2-3 try assists & a line break, Jack Nicholas had big carries & scored 2 tries down the right wing & Peter Ta'ai (I think was #11) was strong on both an edge and when moved into lock (although he got placed on report for an alleged bite).
Riley Oitmann scored a slicing try but was disappointed with his performance - one of those days for him with about 3 handling errors and a poor missed cover tackle going for the intercept instead of the man when Raiders scored a runaway try.
I think it was Lanyon on the left wing who was strong for a 17yo, both Cohen Benson and Lele shared 5/8 duties both impressive, Tauaifaiga & McMenemy were centres both strong carries and Xavier produced the hit of the match when jamming in, and our #12 backrower was also impressive especially in defence (not sure who this was).
Kohan Lewis, Dane Ransom & I think it was Farr-McKay from Balmain (though not 100% sure as different haircut) were the props with Duncombe and did their job although I thought the Raiders had the superior middles for a large part.