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Same logic can be applied to some of the kangaroo players too, to be fair.I hope this was a case of some players not playing for 6 weeks rather than the new Kidwell era
I think Luke was an issue, his passing is slow and inaccurate, we looked our best when Lewis came on for last 20 min of first half, I'm not sure what Luke gives usI'd drop Shaun Johnson, hopefully it's just his leg and leave him at home for the 4 nations
12 months?Can this be turned around in 12 months? Johnson is a concern for mine
I think Luke was an issue, his passing is slow and inaccurate, we looked our best when Lewis came on for last 20 min of first half, I'm not sure what Luke gives us
I may even be worth moving Leuluai into the 9, bringing Luke off the bench and putting Martin out in the 6 to give us another kicker in general play...
While Leuluai was great on d we are really lacking option kickers and Brown's service from dummy half was clean but slow.
maybe
6. Martin
9. Leuluai
14. Luke
This I posted earlier in the thread, Brown is not a hooker. If you're not gonna play Luke for the full 80, then have Leuluai replace him as hooker either from the bench or have TMM come of the bench and play 6 and have Leuluai move into hoooker.
Our much vaunted forward pack went missing at the start of the first half. The traditional softening up period the Australians owned us. Our forwards barely got the ball as the backs were doing the bulk of the work and a forward would get a hit up late in the set. The injection of Tapau and Blair helped turn things around.
Bromwhich had a pretty poor game; he got a lot of attention from the Aussies. He should improve from here. JWH was in exile for a few years, it will be interesting to see his stats. Again hopefully he improves in the Four Nations.
The way we worked the try. But barely any field position to repeat that.
The Aussies just worked us over moved us around and went through their players. Our right side needs some work defensively.