The injuries they’ve had has meant they’ve had to overplay the young lads. Smithies is going to be a hell of a player but has probably had more game time than they had planned. Look how we brought Knowles on gradually and are now reaping the rewards.
I’m not saying they are the best team in the comp, far from it. What I’m saying is that with a full strength team they are more than competitive. Some of their players haven’t even been training lately but playing on a weekend and it shows. O Loughlin being one of them. He’s now been training fully for the last 3 weeks and I bet his performances improve.
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