🏉 Handling the conditions
🏉 Missing Harry
🏉 The tries
🏉 Cardiff’s role
🏉 Rockin’ Ruben
THIS WEEK’S GUEST
FULL TIME TAKES
Niall Duffy
Shocking performance. Weather aside, it was just dire. Very tough run in to the season now with Glasgow, Ulster and Benetton away to come. In years gone by its been these games during international breaks that have defined the depth and success of the squad. Sad to see how poor that was.
Dave Murray
Even taking into the account the rain, we looked very sluggish and our style of play has noticeably regressed the last year or so. We haven’t played great at all this season but have picked up wins to get us in a decent position, can’t say I’m too confident of getting silverware but here’s hoping 🤞🤞🤞
Stuart Maher
Awful conditions. Torrential rain is hard enough to play in, but it becomes a slow grinding game as the mud slows everything down. Slows the ball, slows the players. Turns it into a forward crunch fest. There is no mud on a 4g pitch so the game stays fast, except the ball, now wet, instead of having mud to give a little grip, has greasy residue coming from the surface. Meaning a fast game with the slimiest of balls. Neither team could bring their normal play so I felt, from the start, it was going to be a coin flip game.
A few positives. Tector looks so good ball in hand. Really looks like someone who wants the extra few metres and will fight for it. Moloney looked very handy, and I thought, for his second game, Spicer did OK.
Chris McDonnell
We have 3 coaches stealing a living.
At least we didn’t pay to watch this. Really need to get Noel McNamara in right now before these coaches do any more damage.
Craig Grehan
Shite
Ok, maybe that’s harsh. But there was a lot of take aways. We looked sluggish (can’t be blaming lions fatigue for this). A fair bit of silly sloppy play that isn’t upto the standard we’ve come to expect.
Rudderless in attack in terms of how to exploit the opposition as if the game plan was “ah sure ya know yourself”.
Very few sparks of next gen players stepping up.
Hywel Davies
Didn’t look like they wanted to be there
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