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Message: [QUOTE="lynx000, post: 2766085, member: 2065"] Once again, prepare yourselves, this is not a negative post, I will leave that to the others who have posted earlier. With the way we have been playing, and the conditions, I don't think anyone could have expected anymore than what we got last night. Anyone who cannot see the marked improvements last night is being overly critical in my view, and a little unrealistic. The form slump we have been in, we were never going to snap out of it like that *snaps fingers* and start playing like the start of the season. The positives as I saw them are:- 1. We had a win. We had a win against a team playing for their season, on a ground that we traditionally do not play well at, and a ground where the opposition had been defeated this year. 2. We had a win playing in horrendous conditions. 3. Attitude - it was like night and day between last night and the previous weeks. From the start the entire team was switched on last night, their body language was good and Hunt in particular looked a lot better in this area. 4. They took the first steps back towards getting their defensive attitude and application right, and even better, it was clear that they were playing for each other last night in defence (which they have not been doing). 5. The return of the old Sammie Thaiday. He had a sensational game in my view and I fervently hope that was not a one off cameo but a taste of what he is going to deliver every week from here on. 6. The return of Gillett. What a difference he made to the defensive structure and defensive effort. Hopefully we are not going to lose him to injury. 7. The return of Maguire - made good metres, he also made a difference to the defensive structure and efffort. 8. Blair - is really getting back to doing the 1%ers and he is really making an effort to putting pressure on the kickers. Hopefully common sense reigns and he does not get cited for what was in reality an accident with the major cause being the player slipping into the tackle. 9. Generally a better kicking game from the halves, but still a lot more improvement that can be made there. In particular for Hunt kicking in theattacking 20 to get restarts, he must ensure that the ball gets through the line and into the in goal. Too often he finds the legs of a defender. 10. Much improved attacking structure coming from the halves. Both Hunt and Milford are showing signs of wanting to run the ball more, more of that please boys. 11. Improved game management from the halves, but still a lot of work to be done there. 12. Opacic - is looking solid and appears to be a good prospect. 13. Maranta - he gets a lot of criticism on here (including from me just lately), but too be fair, that was not too bad a game from him last night. In comparison to Eden it was a superb game. If we need to keep picking him, if he can at least play to that standard and try and improve 5% each game from where he was last night, he becomes a really viable back up option for us. 14. We still have Kahu and KNik to come back into the team. 15. We had a win. The challenge for them now is to build on that next week, and have incremental imrpovements each week to try and play themselves into some form prior to the finals commencing. [/QUOTE]

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