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doedin wrote:A decent performance against a very poor Kings. I was surprised by how fast we started and after 12 mins the contest was over. No real poor performances. If I was being picky then Fowles box kicking wasn't particularly good and Socino needs to learn how to keep hold of the ball in contact. I thought our back row was excellent and Crosbie and Ritchie together looked excellent. Good to see our guys coming back from injury and a few of the young guys doing well and looking confident. I thought Shiel looked excellent albeit against a non-existent Kings defence. Hopefully they can build and maintain this level of performance and not sink to the lows of the Dragons away debacle?
The Feral Goat wrote:Not sure how to link a video to twitter.
Crosbie and kings captain had a disagreement clip shows why.
Check out @vern_cotter’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/vern_cotter/status/ ... 51328?s=09
The Chiel wrote:May sound odd given his stats earlier in the thread, but it was good to see DVDM getting off his wing and looking for work - and very effective he was too.
Tichtheid wrote:Bergs was my motm, a terrific performance in the set scrum matched by good work around the park, he carried well, made his tackles and passed from the base when required, of course his try was magnificent, it must be from 30m by now.
Close behind was Sutherland, I'd have him ahead of Dell at the moment
The Feral Goat wrote:The Chiel wrote:May sound odd given his stats earlier in the thread, but it was good to see DVDM getting off his wing and looking for work - and very effective he was too.
I believe the one pass he made all match was the try scoring one to Fife(?) quality not quantity
Tichtheid wrote:A family do meant that I missed the game yesterday but I've finally caught up with it.
Bergs was my motm, a terrific performance in the set scrum matched by good work around the park, he carried well, made his tackles and passed from the base when required, of course his try was magnificent, it must be from 30m by now.
Close behind was Sutherland, I'd have him ahead of Dell at the moment.
At times the game was little more than a live training session, but as the cliché goes you can only play.... etc
I want to take a moment to talk about Charlie Shiel, we were all wondering when he'd get his chance and boy did he take it - he comes on, gets a huge gee-up from Fowles (who played well I thought) and immediately takes the whip hand to the forwards, bossing them like he was Greig Laidlaw, shouting, cajoling his pack to give him what he wanted - that was brilliant. Then he goes on to deliver crisp accurate passing, sweeping back when it was called for and running the "George Horne line" in attack, enabling him to be in position to take a sweet ball from Miller before passing out of the tackle to the onrushing Fenton for the score.
Great start to his Edinburgh career, long may it continue.
Onwards...
edit - btw, the strength Sutherland showed for his score was quite something
The Chiel wrote:The Feral Goat wrote:The Chiel wrote:May sound odd given his stats earlier in the thread, but it was good to see DVDM getting off his wing and looking for work - and very effective he was too.
I believe the one pass he made all match was the try scoring one to Fife(?) quality not quantity
Bit surprised by that stat ( not doubting it, just surprised by it ), but I think my point about much greater involvement still stands, compared with say Dublin where he stood out on the wing and waited for something to happen. I've assumed the play book for this week ( and hopefully next ) included far more of his coming into the line at angles, and carrying through and over traffic.
biffer wrote:The Feral Goat wrote:Not sure how to link a video to twitter.
Crosbie and kings captain had a disagreement clip shows why.
Check out @vern_cotter’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/vern_cotter/status/ ... 51328?s=09
He was just checking the guys cup was in the right place. Good guy.
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