ccs wrote:Players outside the 17 last year included McNamara, Brown, Swift, Bowden, Wynne, Scott, Matongo and Shaul, hardy mugs, but 7 or 8 injuries takes its toll on the whole squad.
Swift? was one of our better players and first choice wing
Raggytash wrote:I guess we will see. I imagine they'll knock on more than Swift, but Swift will get taken into touch/behind the goal line more often. McIntosh is known to have a few errors in him, especially if playing fullback. I'm looking forward to us trying to utilise a bit of pace out wide, but I'm really concerned about where our early yardage will come from other than Griffin.
Why do we need backs for early yardage? Surely thats what the forwards are there for? Griffin and Tuimavave both make yardage when required but we need to get away from this 5 drives and kick play and vary the way we come out of defence. Saints and Castleford in previous seasons moved the ball through hands coming out of defence and stretching teams,creating a lot more metres and long distance tries with their fast backs. you may get the odd mistake but then again a slow moving forward can easily drop the ball when hit by three defenders turning the ball over in whilst still in our 20.
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bonaire wrote:Why do we need backs for early yardage? Surely thats what the forwards are there for? Griffin and Tuimavave both make yardage when required but we need to get away from this 5 drives and kick play and vary the way we come out of defence. Saints and Castleford in previous seasons moved the ball through hands coming out of defence and stretching teams,creating a lot more metres and long distance tries with their fast backs. you may get the odd mistake but then again a slow moving forward can easily drop the ball when hit by three defenders turning the ball over in whilst still in our 20.
ComeOnYouUll wrote:Interesting to see on the club's website that although Faraimo remains for now on the first team squad list Fonua has already been removed.
He disappeared as soon as the announcement was made yesterday lunchtime.
Is Hodgson the new Griffin, or is it all about pace?
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