Well...it just seemed from the "get go" (i hate that term), that we had a different attitude to the first week.
1st week, we streamed forward refused to look sideways pr backwards, and put some priority on precision and playing on at all costs.
Saw none of that yesterday.
So..
Was it the long plane flight?
Was it a hangover from the previous week?
Was it immense pressure from 'the better team om the day", but who are reeling from a severe loss of personell and experience?
Was it because we brought Hogan in for Balla's??(tall for a small.)
Or, was there a different game plan?
Could have been all of the above, but something was definitely different, and hopefully we swing back towards week 1, and never see week 2 again.
It would be hard to imagine a playing group 'wanting' to play that way.
And, if kicking down the line; creating a fustercluck around the ball; slow movement; and, looking sideways and behind, are bad habits that pressurized players fell back onto, then surely, they should have been sanctioned during the match. Ie 'dragged'.
So, to me, yesterday had RoLy's fingerprints all over it, ....hope he learnt that his fustercluck crap simply does not work!!!!
