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Particular impressions from the night then:
The game
- All up pretty good
- Pack looked very composed
- Bart did well
- As two fullbacks, Rabbit and Shep could make for an interesting combination running off each other
- Pek needs plenty of practice (naturally)
- Sheehan needs to stop box kicking so damn deep
- CO'Y needs to sharpen up
- Stanford seems to have got well big. I don't know what the plan is, but he looks like he could be a very useful 6 in the Elsom mould were he to focus on it
- As elsewhere, the crowd was a bit disappointing. Given that the various other trials were also derbies, and given the comparison to last year, you'd have to hope they aren't barking up completely the wrong tree in the way they are planning to expanding the competition...
The stadium
- The lights, whilst now much brighter, seem low and routinely got in the eyes when the ball was lifted. It will be interesting to see if it creates a problem for the cameras
- The surface looked superb
- I was surprised that they still hadn't installed the screens. Luckily installing electronics is always easy, hey?
- On the whole, we'll see how the place bears up next week.