Defensively Oates made the critical tackle on the centre a few times and one on Milford. The one where Isaako went through he had 2 on 1 and chose the centre again.
tbf kicking to Oates has rarely worked the last the season or two. Oates has been very safe.
the main reason to pick Arthars is that Oates is underdone atm. Needs more games with less pressure on him.
Yep I was relying on my "..." to carry that point for me. I doubt Bellamy learns anything from this too.
i.e. it might not be best to play your smallest, just returned from injury guy in the middle and don't let your big boofhead run around trying to injure people.
I was absolutely sure we'd get done for the bumper rule. Every new rule i can remember we get done for. Well we kinda did but it was Marty being a fool and we were lucky he wasn't sent haha.
Vonny just looks for headlines now. Always repeating coaches comments and looking for controversy. She really isn't adding anything to the post match discussion.
Also his head turned nearly 180 off the shoulder. If he came out of that tackle facing forward he scores imo. As it was it was only his own elbow that stopped the ball touching down. Hiku held it up from there on.
Every other player on the kick returns list is a fullback. It was interesting that teams kept kicking to Oates. The Dragons kept doing it and Oates kept catching them and charging through them.
Haas is way worse than those two. They never undermined our season.
Hunt never gave up for us. He made that tackle on a broken leg.
Dearden just never got going.
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