Drove down to Manuka from the Harbour City today. Good win by the team, they did what they had to do. It was good to see Tiger players being strong enough to push their opponents off the ball. Saw some really good work around the stoppages from the mids. I still don't think that Dusty runs hard enough the other way when the opposition gets a break going.
They went back to the ruck-wrestling rules today and I thought that hurt Mega-Maric's performance. He seemed to like the three metre separation rule more.
Morris hurt his ankle and it affected his running stride late in the game. The Mailman looked like he had a bad case of cramp in the final few minutes, but he played a lot of gametime. Rance got pretty badly winded, but it didn't seem any worse than that.
I was sitting just behind the interchange gate. When our players rotated off the ground, they looked completely spent. They did a lot of two-way running. But, after a two or three minute rest, they were looking fine again. They say that the test of fitness is the speed of recovery. Our players look pretty fit.
Matt Hornsby was calling the rotations all day and even sending the runner out to drag players who went over time. As bench coach, Brendon Lade didn't seem to have a lot to do, except encourage the guys prior to their return to the field.
Truly though, we didn't have a lot to beat, I wouldn't get carried away with this one.
