Mustafur
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- Jun 13, 2019
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I think it's fine how it is with Paix atm, he still struggles for minutes and wasn't able to stay on for the whole game once he came on late in the 1st half against the titans, you put him on earlier and we will have a big period without him in the second.We had a horrible first half last week too. We seem to really struggle until we fluke 2 tries or so than the confidence grows and they run away with it.
We always seem to coincidentally start to play better as soon as Paix comes on. You’ll notice our entire first halves were terrible the last 2 weeks where Billy played 40 and 30 minutes in his opening stints. The week before that we struggled until the 20-odd minute mark when Billy went off.
I’m not saying Paix is an 80 minute player and I’m not suggesting Turpin. I’m just saying take Billy off no later that 25 minutes in. I can’t wait until Mozer is ready to play off the bench.
It's definitely what looks to be the spark for our later game form, I thought while we where not the best against Newcastle in the first half, our defence was still there compared to this game where we really folded in the 1st half we haven't seen a team score on us that easy since the cowboys game.
I think the balance is fine though yes there is more pressure when your behind but there are plenty of teams that score early then fade, the ones that do the opposite in this game tend to be the real deal, and lets not forget we have scored over 30 points for 5 of those 6 games we have won in a row that's some serious attack we have.