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Message: [QUOTE="uptheguts, post: 2672870, member: 8474"] Nice to win , but not an impressive win IMO. Like others in this thread I was very disappointed in our line speed. In fact quite often it seemed to me that our backline was not advancing at all , which Para seemed to wake up to in the second half. They simply ran their big forwards one or two passes off the ruck and were making an easy ten to fifteen metres every time. I seem to remember very few sets from Para that didn’t end in our forty. This allowed them to get into field position to get some really good attacking kicks in, which put Maranta under heaps of pressure. I think people are being very harsh on Maranta for his kick returns. The majority of times he fielded the ball the defence was there in numbers. We may defend our line well but don’t seem to care about defending our half of the field. If this continues I can see some teams putting big scores on us. Positives included good running games from Thaiday , Oates and Milford. Some impressive long kicks from Hunt and Milford. Hodges was there when needed and IMO we probably don’t win that game with out him. Nickorima was great and needs more minutes . Reed gets a pass this game despite some of his hit ups being a complete waste of a tackle. All the forwards were great. [/QUOTE]

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