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Friday Knight Lights wrote:Not too bothered about the established players as they'll be fine but how did the unknowns go?
How was Blaine, Hickey, Hodgson, Mungo, Atkinson, Natalie, Shiel, Baggot et al?
dolf_lundgren wrote:I thought it was a reasonably good game given it was a first run out.
Bath looked massive in the first half but were quite linited in their play, they really just wanted an arm wrestle. OUr play was much more enterprising but a lot of dropped balls and miss places passes. Possibly most concerning was the amount of turnovers conceded.
Keeping track of the players wasn't easy as a lot of new faces and a tannoy that was pretty useless with the wind. I thought Kennedy looked sharp, Watson does what he does. Both Socinio and Scott looked decent and Fife made breaks. As I said hard to judge the youngsters and keep track of wh they were. The kiwi 7 looked a hardy player and CHH was robust around the field. Who was the right winger in the second half? Pacey and big, looked a threat. Interesting to see Dean on the wing, would have thought Johnstone would be more suited but he seemed to do ok.
Baggot did ok when he came on, struggled with decision making. Biggest disappointment was Pyrgos who seemed to slow things down and his passing was all over the place. Unless it was tactical to play a more forward orientated kicking game then he is was a real step down from Kennedy. I hope we see the good Pyrgos more often than that one. Hickey looked good and challenged the line a few times, not very big but will be good to see how he goes.
Biggest plus was 4200 for a pre-season game, that's a good start, hopefully everyone comes back and a few more this season.
dolf_lundgren wrote:I thought it was a reasonably good game given it was a first run out.
Bath looked massive in the first half but were quite linited in their play, they really just wanted an arm wrestle. OUr play was much more enterprising but a lot of dropped balls and miss places passes. Possibly most concerning was the amount of turnovers conceded.
Keeping track of the players wasn't easy as a lot of new faces and a tannoy that was pretty useless with the wind. I thought Kennedy looked sharp, Watson does what he does. Both Socinio and Scott looked decent and Fife made breaks. As I said hard to judge the youngsters and keep track of wh they were. The kiwi 7 looked a hardy player and CHH was robust around the field. Who was the right winger in the second half? Pacey and big, looked a threat. Interesting to see Dean on the wing, would have thought Johnstone would be more suited but he seemed to do ok.
Baggot did ok when he came on, struggled with decision making. Biggest disappointment was Pyrgos who seemed to slow things down and his passing was all over the place. Unless it was tactical to play a more forward orientated kicking game then he is was a real step down from Kennedy. I hope we see the good Pyrgos more often than that one. Hickey looked good and challenged the line a few times, not very big but will be good to see how he goes.
Biggest plus was 4200 for a pre-season game, that's a good start, hopefully everyone comes back and a few more this season.
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