we beat a very poor cruaders tonite,nothing to get tooo excited about but were off the mark

I can`t understand why they don`t use Whiting,he always seems to get decent lengths on his kicks to touch.

Good half back play throughout Horne and Obst very good.

Good goal line defence.

Very good attacking kicks.

Decent discipline.

Some good tries scored (and 8 of them in total

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Improved but still patchy defensive line speed.

Average/poor ptb speed - regular "loss of collision".

Better and more logical bench rotation.

Most effective three performers - Horne/Obst/Whiting

Least effective three performers Manu (injured?)/Yeaman/Turner.

Think Manu wasn`t 100% ,he kept holding his shoulder ,and I noticed he seemed to say something to Fitz about it before going into a scrum.

Thought we were obviously much better and amazing to see us score so many tries from inside the oppos 20 metre area. crusaders were rubbish I thought and not a patch on the side when noble was in charge. Good to see us actually making some ground from penalty touch kicks too.



Unlike others, I thought his interchanges weren't that great again. He only brought moa on with 5 minutes left in the 1st half and could have given washbrook longer at hooker IMO once the game was won

expect crusaders to be bit stronger when their 3 players get clearance