Quote Pat Bateman="Pat Bateman"Watched the full game this aft, two players that I didn’t really take much notice of during the game (4 pints) but stood out like sore thumbs during their stints were Oli Russell and Caius Faatili. Russell was an absolute dog in defence, that lad can graft and the energy that Caius brought, albeit it was only 10 mins or so was the best period of defence in the second half. I genuinely think he will be a very impressive player Caius, he’s just got it in bucket loads. When he’s match fit he’ll cause teams a lot of bother, he reminds me of Greg Eastwood. He was very dominant in defence and carried very well, just needs to get match fit.'"
I quite like Russell at 9 to be honest. Looks to play quite tight around the play of the ball.
Faatili I’m sure only got 10 minutes as he’s only had a handful of sessions as he wasn’t struggling or anything. I think we will see Faatili and Vagana get more minutes this week vs kr.
With Hood out, i would just bring Smith in at 9 and run with the same 17. We do have the option of swapping in a few backs if there’s still some fatigue set in but hopefully a big effort this Thursday and it would be a dream start to go 2/2.
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