With Williams and Harris out to injuries, just reward for Lopeti and Reed with starts due for their strong performances last week.
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With Williams and Harris out to injuries, just reward for Lopeti and Reed with starts due for their strong performances last week.
Hopefully Brendon Paenga-Amosa will be here next year on a long term deal to shore up the Hooking stocks
And likewise the attack stats are very good.
A great team effort.
Donaldson, Potter and Stewart led the backs and Princep and Faifua great in the forwards.
Special mention again to Coxon,...
Well the faith finally paid off in spades, that was an outstanding performance by the Force.
Defence wins matches and as expected the defence stats are really good, almost all players got to or...
I think we all need to realise that a lot of the Fijian and other islander players, often and probably if not most of the time support families back home.
Any reduction or non payment not only...
Kuenzle has been outstanding the last two matches and deserves to remain in the starting team.
Poolman is only just starting to find his feet in super rugby and cameos are more important to his...
That must be close to our best starting backline.
With so many injured forwards, I am happy to see Coxon getting another chance (hopefully no 22 drop outs this week). Princep to bring an older...
Wilton Rebolo appears to have left the Force to join RFC Los Angeles on a three year deal
Attack stats:
Donaldson and Stewart good.
Burey, Anstee, Franklin, and Harris also did well.
Tizzano, Princep, Potter and Tiatia decent efforts.
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Defence stats first up.
Anstee very solid.
Harris, Horton, Franklin and Tizzano good.
Coxon again very busy in defence.
Stewart again featuring
Putting the hurt aside I think the main issue is lack of game time that our players get.
Without a third tier Super rugby does not give players enough games to learn and acquire game nous.
...
2 Ex Force players named in the Brothers Team:
Harry Lloyd and Grason Makara
Good luck to them and hope that they both have a good game.
Starting XV: Ryan Coxon, Tom Horton, Santiago Medrano, Thomas Franklin, Jeremy Williams, Tim Anstee, Carlo Tizzano, Will Harris, Issak Fines-Leleiwasa, Ben Donaldson, Chase Tiatia, Hamish Stewart,...
Rugby Pass seem to think Sam Spink is a done deal with Saracens. :verysad:
".......
Tigers boss Dan McKeller knows him well from his time on the Wallabies coaching staff. He has already missed...
Its almost that time of the season when the rumour mill starts and speculation starts regarding our squad for 2025.
We have a large contingent coming off contract.
With the uncertainty...
As expected the attack stats are very pleasing:
Donaldson and Potter were on fire.
White, Horton, Burey, Kuenzle and Tiatia good.
Harris and Williams worked hard.
Coxon and Wells involved.
Great effort by the boys today, we are moving in the right direction.
Keep the faith.
The attack is starting to take shape and the cohesion is building nicely and can be clearly seen.
First...
Force A come back to draw 31-31 after being down 24-10 at half time
Wow look at that name at number 6 for the A team
Reed Prinsep:
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Yes. we do not have anyone with the pace of Toole, however, Potter is very fast.
Having watched him "live" against the Cheetahs and the friendly V the Brumbies he has some serious gas.
TiaTia...
Leahy is only 19 years old and is part of the Academy.
O'Donnel probably in the same age age category.
The coaches are correctly bidding their time with these two talented youngsters.
They...
Stewart very unlucky not to get the 12 spot.
Walton was good but Stewart did a lot more work in defence and attack, and man for man he had harder work to do than Walton. The difference was only in...
Prior started because the fixture also doubled up as a keep players likley to be called on in some sort of match readiness. Thats is why Moli, Naiyaravoro, Bayley Kuenzle, and Nikolai Foliaki also...
55 Minute:
Off: Horton
On: Katuui
57 Minute:
Off: Wells, Coxon, White
On: Hancock, FaiFui, Fines
Attack stats as expected were good.
Backline very busy and Harris, Horton and Medrano did well in the forwards and again Coxon figures in the stats.
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