BlackWhiteGold
Well-known member
A very good win for the NSW Cup boys yesterday, with the best performance of the season for many of our players.
We won it with our defence & ultimately our attack wore down the Jets as we won most of the key stat areas in the game.
Thought our best were Josese Lanyon & Heath Mason. Hopefully this is the break-out game that Lanyon needed in Cup & gives him the confidence to go on with it. Strong in defence, assured with his dummy half service & made some important darts from dummy half including for a try.
Mason showed his versatility. Made some good carries & tackles at centre and a rehearsed long-range kick chase down the wing to score off Stevanovic burning the cover. Went into halfback when Stevanovic went off injured with about 25 to go and provided solid direction in attack with his passing & kicking.
Was very impressed with Logan Brookes in his Cup debut too. Did make a couple of errors but his running game, defence & organisation was very good. Saved a tackle with strength on the line & regularly broke 1 or 2 tackles with his runs. Pops up everywhere.
Saukuru & Fainga'a were great with their yardage carries & finishing in attack. Solo a nice 60m intercept & what a find from Camden is Fainga'a this season. From what I have found, he is about 26-27yo too.
Charlie Murray & Bunty Afoa were strong in the middle particularly Charlie and loved the impact on both sides of the ball that Vaka Aho brought when he came on.
Ethan Roberts had a strong 1st start in Cup for us, did try a flick pass that was intercepted but that's what he brings. Mitchell Taotua made some of our better carries too & continues to show his potential as a 21yo.
Patrick Herbert was poor with his discipline early both with indiscretions & also throwing a couple of passes snapped up by the Jets but then did some very good things in the 2nd half including a bone-crunching tackle.
