The Feral Goat wrote:Weather was awful but a decent second half and overall result.
On Pyrgos – I don’t think he was MotM (Mata 27 carries for 114m plus a sweet offload for a try) but he did control the game well and has box kicks were for the most part well placed for us to compete for. His pass in traffic to Dean for his try was good picking the right time to go wider after a series of pick and goes. I do get frustrated at the time taken to get the ball away on occasion either by pass or boot, but in Fridays conditions he kept us in the right areas.
I am sure he is playing to plan but I would like to see him play what is in front of him more often, there were a couple of opportunities to get a pass away quickly off front foot ball but it looked like he had already decide to box kick to plan. I am not saying run everything but when there is quick ball and numbers advantage with the back 3 we have I would like to us threatening more. Hopefully we may see this in better conditions.
Agree entirely. This was a game we would have easily lost in the past due to lack of control at 9 and 10. Pyrgos played the right game in first half, obviously working to orders and then got us moving in the second half. Given the conditions it was never going to be a running game but we knew we would wear them down up front and eventually chances would come.
It wasn't pretty and our skills let us down badly in the first half but we won and got the TBP playing controlled game.
Having watched Pyrgos play for the Weegies he is more than capable of playing a fast running game, he showed that on numerous occasions for them. However we don't yet have the skill set in the backs to do what they do, we have to pick our moments and Pyrgos does that very well for us.