Won in the middle - the way we win in the future

[Mataiforever]

The game was won in the middle and if we had turbo sniffing around the ruck when Paseka / Schuster / Keppie bent the line & offloaded we'd have scored a few more.

Our middle was phenomenal - an old manly grind win. Order in best performance for me:
1. Paseka -
Offensive stats: 119m 12 runs (swear he had more) w/ average play the ball speed of 3.96s, and 4 Offloads.
Defensive stats: 31 tackles at 97% efficiency.
Comment: Great innings. Think he broke the line like twice?

2. Aloiai:
Offensive stats: 160m 16 runs with an average play the ball speed of 3.40s (wow - impressive for 16 runs too).
Defensive stats: 34 tackles at 87% efficiency.
Comment: Kept us in the game whenever he was on and really allowed our halves to have serious time and space with the ball, great for momentum.

3. Jake:
Offensive: 15 runs at 121 metres, much more effective tonight. Average play the ball speed of 2.69s is unreal.
Defensive: about 50 tackles at 94% efficiency.
Comment: - again not his best with a few errors but still a huge workhorse and extremely quick play the balls - it gave us the momentum at the end of the match. he was crucial, just needs to execute more with a bit of luck, bleeds Manly.

Marty, Keppie were great, Marty with some impressive stats and aimed up. Toff good too - thought Keppie was more damaging per run however.

DCE over 600 kicking metres in the game - was great to see him have a great running and kicking game again and not overplay his hand too much.

 

[The better Robbo]

100% I'd keep the 3 props on bench and play the power game as you mentioned. We don't have the spark out wide but we definitely have the punch through the middle. Cust and Turbo back next week will be huge!

 

[Ron E. Gibbs]

Keppie's hitups, aggression and offloads are fantastic but he needs to be a bit more switched on in defence - he gets caught out in his positioning at times, at other times he goes for a big hit and misses. A bit more experience should sort that out. Really like what he brings to the team overall.

 

[Stewbojevic]

If Turbo follows Paseka around in the middle he’ll tear teams apart after some of those offloads

 

[mjb136]

Aloiai had a high Post contact metre count as well, we need forwards bending the line.

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Keep some perspective, the Warriors are a middle range outfit who had a huge number of players missing. As did we of course.
The best part of our win is that it was a clear step forward. The confidence and enthusiasm of the players must get a big lift from that, which can set a platform for small incremental improvements as the year goes on.
By second half of the comp, with luck, we'll be a capable team on the rise. Le'ts face it, a rise was the only possible change after the first 4 games.