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Message: [QUOTE="Brotherdu, post: 2914466, member: 9226"] For mine, a lot of the problems we saw come down to the fact that we couldn't hold the ball, meaning we hardly ever strung multiple sets together without an error. It's the first game of the year and the team needs to get into the grind and work the rust out. Most of our few forays into their end of the field led to points, could have been more if Boyd didn't throw the ball forward. Thaiday was poor, some of his passes were shocking, but then he's not a hooker, so not sure it's his fault really. Maybe Moose should have played there for the first 20. I thought I forwards looked promising without being great, remember the Dragons pack is one of the best in the comp. TPJ was offloading at will and looked a handful at times, but he needs to calms down a bit sometimes. Lodge was great for his first game back, he always seemed to land on his front for a quick play the ball which is something we've lacked for ages. He probably needs to focus on his hitups a bit more instead off ball playing as he looks ot be out main metre eating forward. Sims/Offa were pretty quiet, but I think that is mainly because we were already outgunned when they came on. Jimmy and Isaako were pretty good, I can see them causing some trouble for teams down the track if Kahu isn't pushed back to that wing. Milf and Nico were pretty invisible, but again, we never had the ball and when we did we dropped it. However, there were some really bad ends to sets, were it looked like neither of them wanted the ball and there was no plan. Someone, I guess Milf needs to step up. Looked like there was a lack of talk. Moose kicking on last tackle, Milf kicking for only Moose to chase etc. I'm not sure an organising half would have solved our problems tonight, so this is probably a good game for them to be this disorganised. I'd be really shitty if we played well as a whole and lost it because our halves couldn't put the game to bed. All in all, I can shrug this one off to preseason rust, 2 players back from injury without a preseason game, 3 others playing out of position and Bird to come into the side still. Hopefully this is a once off, it would be hard for them to play much worse, but far out, we have the Cows next week, I can't see us getting up at this stage. Oh and our defence was absolute crap. [/QUOTE]

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