Wow, what a result. I'll take it
The good:
-The Scrum. I thought we would give penalty after penalty. Wwe held our ground which, given our recent history, is a huge improvement.
-for 60 minutes, our defence. When we are focused we can defend very, very well, even against the best
-Scrappy attack. We can create opportunities from pretty much nothing. We need to exploit that more.
-Our centres. They are the most underrated players in the entire competition. The rush very well, hardly miss a tackle and cover when others miss theirs. They won't break the line often but you give them an inch and they will make you pay for it.
The bad:
- For 20 minutes, our defense was nothing short of pathetic, specially during the first 15 min.
- Boffelli. He had a shocker of a game. Kicked bad, defended "meh" and lost half the balls in hand he had.
- Sometimes we are very stupid at decision making. They had 1 guy in the sin bin and we kept kicking the ball away.
The really, really bad:
- receiving kickoffs. We are the worst at this and that is simply unacceptable.
I think we deserved to win, but i also think Barrett cost them the game. His PT was a game changer. It cost them 14 points, tired their players and gave us confidence and momentum.
Still, i'll take it.
I was counting 2 out of 4 wins in this tour so i'm rather optimistic. It'll come down to the game vs the sharks. That's, again, our must win battle.