by Tichtheid on Mon Oct 23, 2017 2:17 pm
I've watched the whole thing now. It looked like a live training game at times, too many mistakes and the backs are still not really clicking, but it does look like they are on to something, some good go-forward ball and they might shock us all. Dean is so much improved this season, as is Rasolea.
The pack were really quite something though. That Krazny unit took Stade apart last week by all accounts - I googled the Stade 8 and whilst they aren't household names they are a big set of lads including a couple of Georgian international props. Only the young 19 year old flanker was a callow youth.
We lack a bit of pace, but that actually got better as the game wore on, McCallum had a huge impact, as did Big Berg. Bill Mata fitted in seamlessly (he looked like the biggest guy on the park). The backrow all looked good, carried well and gave us front-foot ball all game. The match was won up front, we'll need to recreate that on Saturday.
It's difficult to judge if that was a good performance or not, but at ten tries you can't really say it was a poor one
Rambo's darts looked spot on.