Quote Captain Library="Captain Library"Sounds like an ugly, well ground-out win against our bogey team! Delighted!
The Giants may have been depleted somewhat but they still have a very strong squad even with players out or backing up and you have to work hard to win any SL game. Can't comment as I wasn't there but we must have really held our nerve in dour conditions.
All in perspective, that's a great week for the club.'"
It wasn't that bad, we looked after the ball considerably well. I think one of the reasons Shudds had to play out of their own 40 for the entire match is the fact Kear had Higgins, Amor, Hickey and Korki running slight angles at one defender (instead of immediate gaps) consistently and good yards were being made in the collision. We managed to get 4 tacklers to the likes of Crabtree time and time again.
Only weak link today for me was Morton. He clearly gave 110% but should have taken his chance early in the 2nd and it was lucky Shudds got pulled back for a forward pass as he wasn't going to catch the free attacker. He isn't big enough, fast enough or strong enough for SL (yet!) We are just fortunate Shudds didn't start playing with width until the 75th minute.
One good thing is he came in for work 3 or 4 times and held onto the ball after some real rough facials.
Shudds were penalised for 5 high tackles in the game and no yellow was shown, is that proper procedure?