Sad, but very true. His one correct read of the match!Experimental wrote:I think Adam Byrnes best bit of defense in the game was giving away that yellow!
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Sad, but very true. His one correct read of the match!Experimental wrote:I think Adam Byrnes best bit of defense in the game was giving away that yellow!
Molony gives away too many penalties.Experimental wrote:Just goes to show us tho, we need to have better tactics for closing out games, that yellow and Molonys infringements, could have costed us dearly.
Molony gave away the penalty in front of the posts (for kicking in the ruck) that Pienaar kicked to reduce the gap to 7). Was it then him again that gave away the next penalty at ruck time when we were on the attack (after Conan's run where he dragged Montp's 13 with him for the ride), which then gave them a good attacking position?wixfjord wrote:Molony gives away too many penalties.Experimental wrote:Just goes to show us tho, we need to have better tactics for closing out games, that yellow and Molonys infringements, could have costed us dearly.
He will be out of the 23 next weekend, and will struggle for gametime when Fardy, Toner and Ryan are fit.
Ryan was fantastic today. Some specimen.
He got ran over a few times and flapped at him on another few occasions. Byrne reminded me of a certain player I used to play with. Great going forward but afraid to get hurt. Byrne tackled like he was afraid to get hurt. He needs to fix that before I'd let him anywhere near a Heineken Cup squad again.LeRouxIsPHat wrote:...... I don't think he was as bad in defence as the stats suggest. He did really well to slow down Nadolo a few times
I don't think he was bamboozled, I think he just didn't want to make the hit.wixfjord wrote:Byrne was completely bamboozled by a simple step from him.
I'd hope it's the former and not the latter tbh.Logorrhea wrote:I don't think he was bamboozled, I think he just didn't want to make the hit.wixfjord wrote:Byrne was completely bamboozled by a simple step from him.
No, he can tackle; he's done that plenty of times. The issue seems to be when he has to be exercise judgement and timing. He was as bad in that last week too. It can be taught, but he better start soon...wixfjord wrote:I'd hope it's the former and not the latter tbh.Logorrhea wrote:I don't think he was bamboozled, I think he just didn't want to make the hit.wixfjord wrote:Byrne was completely bamboozled by a simple step from him.
I may be mistaken but I think that was the fullback who came on, don't remember it being Nadolo. Adam put pressure on him meaning he couldn't kick and the guy stepped him brilliantly and got away from both him and Joey. I really wouldn't blame him for that one, it was good pressure initially and then a great step.Logorrhea wrote:I don't think he was bamboozled, I think he just didn't want to make the hit.wixfjord wrote:Byrne was completely bamboozled by a simple step from him.
He got stepped badly twice actually, one in 60th min from Nadolo and another in 64th by Michel. The second one was even worse. Headless chicken stuff.LeRouxIsPHat wrote:I may be mistaken but I think that was the fullback who came on, don't remember it being Nadolo. Adam put pressure on him meaning he couldn't kick and the guy stepped him brilliantly and got away from both him and Joey. I really wouldn't blame him for that one, it was good pressure initially and then a great step.Logorrhea wrote:I don't think he was bamboozled, I think he just didn't want to make the hit.wixfjord wrote:Byrne was completely bamboozled by a simple step from him.
I really find it hard to blame him for not stopping Nadolo on his own. I do think he did a reasonable job of slowing him down (can think of two efforts where he certainly wasn't afraid of being hurt) but would also put the blame more on Luke for kicking poorly and giving Nadolo a run at him. I do agree that he flapped at a couple of tackles though. There was one from a kick to Nadolo where he waved him past, and another when he had the chance to bury Mogg near halfway but just tamely held on before someone else finished the job.
I actually thought his positioning was good for the most part, the problem is that when he gets it wrong he gets it badly wrong and it keeps happening. I reckon he's improved in defence when we're well set, but once the other team makes a break or is close to our line he's all at sea. Cruden probably would have exposed his positioning more but luckily that wasn't the case.