Run leroy , run ! wrote:
Yes.
Honestly yes.
Your defence was holey and we won the ptb with the forwards.
Hudds are a quality side and
could come up with a result if both teams had their full compliment out.
You did get a lot of space around the PTB, but for me that mainly came after you'd worn us down.
Were I think you beat us was showing more power, just on the wider edge of the ruck, managing little busts and offloads which made us have to work harder in defence from the outset and wore us out.
Although we had a bit of luck when we spread it wide to the wing, we didn't test all areas of the defence, it was either crash it up with 1st receiver or spread it right to the wing, often before we'd made ourselves any space. That shows the limitation of our half backs compared to that of Hudds - Brown and Brough were probing across the park, dragging our defence here and there and wearing us out. When we had the ball, it was alot easier for them to organise against, and therefore stay fresher.
We were only 12-6 down at one point despite really being under the cosh, there may not hae been a big gap in the scoreline, but in terms of what it had taken from our energy levels we were way behind, this showed later when Hudds had that purple patch.
