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Message: [QUOTE="NSW stables, post: 3144694, member: 10150"] Call me a pessimist, I know we won but i was really quite disappointed in the showing our team put up. Although our forwards made ground, they were still doing so from a standing start. They are both beasts and played well, but could you imagine what hass and tpj could do running onto it? The forwards made ground because the bulldogs had no line speed (similar to us), against other teams we would still be struggling. Both our edges were frail and it was only the bulldogs poor attack that didnt capitalise (had foran or their other half thrown a cut out pass or "harbour bridge" pass to their wingers, they were in every time). I like herbie as a player but he had a poor one on the weekend, he kept creeping in to protect croft (boyd does the same with milford) which as another poster said, meant coates had to come in. Maguire, brooks and benji would have seen this and i think they will try to exploit it. Flegler, wow. His handling is shocking. I noticed that he usually goes into the collision, leading with the shoulder with the arm carrying the ball. Any decent hit to the ball and it dislodges. The other issue is if it isnt lost, the opposition already have the ball wrapped up which makes it harder for an offload. People having a go at nui, the kid is 18. His positional play was great (fielding most of their kicks on the full) which shows good instincts for someone so young, he tried to get around the ball and got involved. Yes he does not appear to have the speed of papenhuyzen or footwork of ponga, but neither does gutherson, but gutherson is still highly effective because he is always around the ball, supports runners, communicates and has worked on his ball skills. Nui could do the same. Is he a long term solution? Maybe, maybe not. The real test for our team comes the next two weeks. [/QUOTE]

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