Pakuranga Game 2 - Running 2's

Given last week's physical battering we were pleasantly surprised to find ourselves up against a team that made touches and not tackles. We started slow... Kerhan dropping the ball the moment we could have scored in the opening minute, 2's without the backdoors, allowing them to run at us all day...

But this was a game where we had our subs. And by the second half they were puffed and we got in their face. We slogged into their space on defence and slicked ourselves around them on attack, and the score blew out in our favour for a 7-1 finish.

I think we can be quite happy with this game. They weren't a dumb team, but we played a smart and composed gameplan.

The girls on the other hand had another blow-out scoreline: 17-0. Against a team of very experienced campaigners throwing no-look passes, they jogged their way through any of the seven gaps that six players leave on the field. This was an improvement from last week though, I think I only saw two occassions where they passed the ball blatanly forward and they now know that to restart the game you go to the centre of the field to tap the ball (well, they were given 17 times to do it in this game alone).
But there's potential: Paddy has a nose for the try line, Louisa loves running from dummy half every time (although she's going to have to remember to pass the ball before getting touched), Ziyen's a pocket rocket on defence, and Sarah and Nikki are willing to do the graft work.