One thing that concerns me with Moa is that he is never going to play good enough to live up to the hype that is surrounding him.

we certainly lacked any go forward last night as soon as omeley went of and struggled to make yards. radders wasnt on the field for long due to taken a bang, dowesy was ok does what he normally does but thought cusack was poor to be honest. hes to robotic and upstraight and that leads to him being picked up and put on his back which results in a slow play the ball, he gives no impact whatsoever.

lets also give credit where it is due...

This Hudds side make no mistake is going to push for all honours this year based upon the fact they are solid in defence as bradford found last week!!

They cleverly ran at Hame to tire him out for long periods over and over which then showed in his ability to break tackles as he was a tad tired and we did exactly the same to Crabbie ..

Yak and Dowes ran their blood to water and both were outstanding in my book, especially Yak who lined up their big forwards everytime they had the ball and neither of their bog hitters made any yardage at all...

We played a top class side last night and beat them and beat them good !!



Whiting again .. outstanding

Cusack's always been smart enough and had the technique in the tackle to land on his knees and elbows, which enables him to get a quick PTB. I don't recall him being picked up and put in his back much if at all. He's excellent at what he does, which is work hard, take the ball up and attract plenty of defenders as well as putting a boat load of work in in defence. He's a quality player, but not a 'showy' or spectacular player. He'll do for me.

Never going to be any quick ptb's against Hudds. I too dont remember being put on his back every time he ran the ball in. The main reason he doesn;t break the line often is because of the amount of tacklers he attracts.



Talking of attracting tacklers Lauaki played a massive part in Halls try running in and drawing two Hudds players in only to slip out a pass at the last second giving us the chance to carry on the move and score. The fact he made such an impression in the Saints game means teams may target him but if he draws in extra bodies it means more space out wide.

Correct team choice last night for me and, unless I'm very much mistaken, we won with that team. I'd play Moa next week though, definitely. I might even consider giving Turner and Washy a run out.



However, I don't know if it's too soon to start rotating a winning team.

Maybe give Radders a break especially if he has any niggles from the knock he picked up last night. No need to play players who are carrying any injuries especially at this stage of the season.

actually cusack dint get picked up and dumped but alot of the time he ends up on his back and results in him playing the ball slow. i just think we need to pick 2 from radders, dowes and cusack and whoever playing the best then will be in the team and with radders not been 100% then cusack will be in the team again most probably. then dont forget fitzy acts like a prop in the things he does defending and attacking down the middle tighing things together ect.

I have to completely disagree. Perhaps last night with a referee that allowed the opposition to work a player on the ground it happened a little, but Cusack is one of our faster players at the play-the-ball - especially when you consider he usually has taken two or three men with himin hte tackle.

So do I, one of the things Cusack does so much better than our other props is get to his knees, though it does seem O'Meley is good for a quick ptb as well.

good post, the Yak is a quality player. you cant have 13 omeleys on the field. you need grafters who take the energy out of the opposition. anybody who knows anything about the game knows what he brings to the team.

tonds and tons , a quality player and we are a better team for having him in it!!

and possibly the fastest play the ball of all the forwards too