twister29
Sydney Middleton (9)
Reporting from the Bridge.
Riverview played a strong game, looking confident and connected when moving the ball. They also tore the Shore scrums apart, and the lineouts. Shore is definitely missing the Galtitude in the lineouts, mis-executing plenty of lineouts this evening, luckily this is an area that can definitely be improved over the season.
In the first half, the Shore boys played a winning game of football, definitely dominating the Riverview side. The defensive efforts were outstanding, holding SIC out on their own line, in those moments of 'surely they should score here'. Shore looked in control of the game in the first half, despite losing Stirling and Armati in his first game back and playing a brilliant half.
However, the standard dropped. This is a common theme this season. The game just gets away from Shore, we saw it against Joeys, we saw it to a certain extent against New, we saw it today. If Shore held onto their standard in the last 20-25 minutes against Joeys, there was not a single thing stopping them from coming out on top. Exactly same thing today - they were even 1 try up beforehand. If they can hold onto the game in the last 1/3rd of the match, they are going to be winning matches. I don't think 20+ gives it the evenness of much of the game, maybe 7.
Unfortunately, there were plenty of mistakes & errors from Shore (although almost matched by SIC), serving View a bit of a clean sheet. View copped a fair red for a high tackle (timestamp 01:10:43 if you really care), and I thought it was going to be a momentum push for Shore, but it seemed to be the exact opposite, Riverview ran circles. Even though Shore had sparks of brilliance, it wasn't enough unfortunately.
One of those sparks was Jarret (1). I though he ran hard and tackled harder. He was in almost every tackle, sending plenty of boys back on their bums. Also Clout (8), who ran with some ferocity that knocked the wind out of many and ate many more metres post contact. Of course, Callaghan was almost untouchable at 10, symbiotically appreciating Robertson's defensive effort in return from the 2XV.
E MOM: Jarret HM: Clout, Sidwell, Robertson
I MOM: Reich HM: Plamondon, Lenehan, Folkes - Grover didn't play his best I don't think.
Onwards to the Kingdom...
Riverview played a strong game, looking confident and connected when moving the ball. They also tore the Shore scrums apart, and the lineouts. Shore is definitely missing the Galtitude in the lineouts, mis-executing plenty of lineouts this evening, luckily this is an area that can definitely be improved over the season.
In the first half, the Shore boys played a winning game of football, definitely dominating the Riverview side. The defensive efforts were outstanding, holding SIC out on their own line, in those moments of 'surely they should score here'. Shore looked in control of the game in the first half, despite losing Stirling and Armati in his first game back and playing a brilliant half.
However, the standard dropped. This is a common theme this season. The game just gets away from Shore, we saw it against Joeys, we saw it to a certain extent against New, we saw it today. If Shore held onto their standard in the last 20-25 minutes against Joeys, there was not a single thing stopping them from coming out on top. Exactly same thing today - they were even 1 try up beforehand. If they can hold onto the game in the last 1/3rd of the match, they are going to be winning matches. I don't think 20+ gives it the evenness of much of the game, maybe 7.
Unfortunately, there were plenty of mistakes & errors from Shore (although almost matched by SIC), serving View a bit of a clean sheet. View copped a fair red for a high tackle (timestamp 01:10:43 if you really care), and I thought it was going to be a momentum push for Shore, but it seemed to be the exact opposite, Riverview ran circles. Even though Shore had sparks of brilliance, it wasn't enough unfortunately.
One of those sparks was Jarret (1). I though he ran hard and tackled harder. He was in almost every tackle, sending plenty of boys back on their bums. Also Clout (8), who ran with some ferocity that knocked the wind out of many and ate many more metres post contact. Of course, Callaghan was almost untouchable at 10, symbiotically appreciating Robertson's defensive effort in return from the 2XV.
E MOM: Jarret HM: Clout, Sidwell, Robertson
I MOM: Reich HM: Plamondon, Lenehan, Folkes - Grover didn't play his best I don't think.
Onwards to the Kingdom...
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