OFFICIAL Jersey Flegg Cup

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Apparently no one watched our boys today?
It was a very poor match, both teams were very poor. No one deserved to win so the draw was fair.

With an already incredibly weakened side it got tougher for us with Nicolas going off injured after 12 minutes and for some unknown reason the coach decided to move his best player out of position with Brooks going to right centre and Sonny Edwards moeke going to fullback.

After that our spine was terrible. Absolutely no direction, no game plan or strategy. Just improvising for 70 minutes.

Pritchard was somewhat solid in his running game but neither he nor half Smith are playmakers or organisers and without Haywood the team has nothing in attack but a few barge over tries. Same goes for Souths.

I'll take but losing and hopefully this team gets some decent players back soon and for goodness sake don't ever move your best player, under any circumstances. Brooks barely touched the ball but his goal kicking was good.

The props were ok. Both teams completed at about 50-60% which made for the low quality albeit close game.
 
Apparently no one watched our boys today?
It was a very poor match, both teams were very poor. No one deserved to win so the draw was fair.

With an already incredibly weakened side it got tougher for us with Nicolas going off injured after 12 minutes and for some unknown reason the coach decided to move his best player out of position with Brooks going to right centre and Sonny Edwards moeke going to fullback.

After that our spine was terrible. Absolutely no direction, no game plan or strategy. Just improvising for 70 minutes.

Pritchard was somewhat solid in his running game but neither he nor half Smith are playmakers or organisers and without Haywood the team has nothing in attack but a few barge over tries. Same goes for Souths.

I'll take but losing and hopefully this team gets some decent players back soon and for goodness sake don't ever move your best player, under any circumstances. Brooks barely touched the ball but his goal kicking was good.

The props were ok. Both teams completed at about 50-60% which made for the low quality albeit close game.
I can’t add too much to that other than I liked the first look of our new recruit in centre / 5/8 or fullback Ryder Huth. He started at centre, didn’t get much opportunity and was moved out of position to the wing with our winger injured early in the game, but he looked to move well and has an ideal tall, rangy frame to work with.
Our other new recruit who started as our our right edge second rower who I think is ex Warriors also carried the ball very strongly.
Similar to our NRL team, this team had no trouble making good yardage, but they did struggle at times defensively.
Archie Duncombe continues to look progressive, Xavier Tauaifaiga at centre and Luani Tuifua as our interchange prop both continue to demonstrate powerful ball running and lock Jeremiah Leatigaga is a decent enough ball playing 13 who might be able to show our current NRL halves a thing or two about an effective short kicking game.
 
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