I really thought Baker was very good from the bench. He played well and definitely should not lose his spot as a few have alluded still tonight. Kobe won’t lose his spot yet but **** he has been shit. Marty was good in patches very rough most of it though I though. I think the best way to get the best out of Hetho is by getting Willison in the side somewhere. His frame and size means we have 4 big boys, a middle sized and a smally. I think whilst there was brain fades and errors in other areas I think Hetho and Taupau caused a lot of fucken headaches for us tonight.
I think everyone isn’t quite on the same wavelength in terms of rythym, timing, identifying and carrying out plays. It happens early on so I’m not concerned but it was a pretty obvious area of rust this week.
I think Billy was very average but I think his worst footy was when he had been on the field for far too long in that first stint. Let him take the sting out and some (25 minutes). Play Smothy until the 60th minute and get Bill back on.
Reyno had his moments. If he isn’t right just rest him, he hasn’t been good enough to start the year and if that means just having the week off than do it. The side currently doesn’t seem like it has his presence at all in it so just get Madden out there and let’s cross every limb known to man. Need him fit so rest him.
Ezra didn’t really do anything wrong, little bit quiet but that happened from time to time last year. Was always going to be a challenging game. As much as you don’t want players on his money being quiet as long as his quiet games come with solid defence and minimal **** ups it’s gonna happen at his age.
Jordan had that one shithouse tackle on Havili that opened the game up. Other than that pretty happy. Would like to see him compressing in and taking more runs out of our own end.
Brendan was immense as long as he is on the field awesome to have him starting. Hopefully MRC forgot the tackle because I was a bit worried there.
Jesse very solid I was happy with him. Not as good under the high ball this game but the standard he set will be hard to live up to every week in that area.
Deine awesome. Great cover defence. Great tries. No errors. Good defence. What else do you want from your 20 year old winger keeping someone like Oatesy out the team.
Staggs. Fucking excellent. Great in defence, threatening in offence. Obviously the one **** up in the draw and pass, it was well done by Latrell but Staggs fucked it really badly.
Cobbo. Fucking hell. Loved the contact in defence, was both physically and systematically awesome in defence. No brain fades and awesome in attack. Not only was that the best game he has played that was about as good a centre performance you can get. Well done
Walsh. Awesome. No need to say anything more (but I will). Had the error or two or three. If he just made sure that he was disciplined that first 20 sometimes even 40 he would go to another level again. Whilst he is winning the games you have to shut up and let it happen but there will be a game where his magic doesn’t work and the errors will hurt us.
Really just Walters, Hetho and Taupau that I would say had bad games. Some not so great moments from others at times but they were pretty much spread around evenly that didn’t really affect the individual performances of most players.