27th May 2015
It was vitally important to get that win on the weekend to maintain our contact with the Top 4 teams. In what will now be a very tough road through the SOO period and with Souths in a injury crisis, we are still 7 wins away from qualifying for the finals in 2015 and a long road ahead.
Aaron Gray is making a habit of scoring tries. After 2 more this weekend that 5 tries from 4 first grade games. Lets hope there are many more to come.
They bye has allowed the Bears to inch off the bottom of the competion table. Surprisingly there are also only 2 points out of the 8 also so all is not lost in RG.
There has been a number off pre Jun 30 movements with Levido coming into the U20's squad as a halfback who has a good kicking game. Wishing him the best of luck.
After the great Pacific Test clashes we really need to develop these games into a true Pacific Cup series that can occur in parallel to the SOO series.
Statistically Round 11 stats showed that were very good this week. Completion rates improved to 82% this week. Errors decreased to 8 from 9 last week. We gave away 4 penalities this week compared to 8 last week. Souths Effective 1st tackle improved to 28.4m this week from 37.1m last week. Our missed tackles dropped to 9 missed tackles from 22 last week. Our bst all season. With a 2 opposition offloads again this week
Looking at our left side defence - AGray-Goodwin-Sutton-Lowe/Brown/McInnes (0-2-1-0) improved this week to 3 from 6 missed tackles last week. On the right side Reddy-DWalker-Keary-McQueen (0-0-3-1) was steady at 4 missed tackles this week.
Our go forward was improved this week to 1474m this week. Luke, Lowe, Johnston and Keary lead the way in making 10+m per hitup. With Tom Burgess, Luke and Johnston making more that 100+m in the match. With Johnston making more that 200+m. Defensively McQueen was our best in the tackling raking up 43 tackles. With George Burgess, Luke, Lowe, McInnes, Brown, Grant, Tom Burgess, Johnston, Aaron Gray, Dylan Walker and Reddy not missing a tackle.
Signing off for another week - the midweek Cyber View from the Hill