Originally Posted by
Webbo Again
I thought Douglas was poor throughout when carrying - too soft on impact, going to ground to easily. Tell you what, though, that dirty tw*t MacIllorum didn't pull out with the knees to the head when Douglas went to drop on that loose ball. Very unconvinced overall with Douglas. There've been a few games where I've thought "that's the player I was expecting" when he's run strong & put a shift in, but others like tonight where he's been Richardsesque in his lack of dynamism in attack.
One of the best atmospheres at LP/TTWS yet. I was in the north stand cos I'd taken the missus & our youngest, and even there it was lively at times.
WRT to the drop goal attempts, the kicker wasn't far from level with us and both times the piescum were even more offside than usual. to close it down. Bent-than, of course, just let it go.
I think you're being unfair. He's barely put a foot wrong, and both (yeah, just two that I can think of!) handling errors came after questionable 'tackles' on him. His defence has been a million times better than I'd expected, too. What's frustrating me is the lack of service he's getting. Numerous times there's been the situation where a bit of space has developed on our left edge and Percival and Taia have both been guilty of using Grace as a foil to try to make the break themselves rather than get the ball to him with some clean air in front of him. I was tearing my hair out at Taia last night late in the game before Percy got the winner. We had numbers on the left and Taia needed to run straight, pin his man, and slip it to Percival to do the same & pass to Grace who I'd have bet my trousers on blazing through to score. Instead, Taia ran diagonally (crowding out the space that had developed), tried to beat his man, then, when tackled, belatedly thought to offload but dropped the ball. Thought the game was gone then. Stupid, dumb, selfish play.
Saying all that, I don't want to burn Grace out, as he's a talent.