Offside again against Rising.
Another penalty
Another scrum close to the try line
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Offside again against Rising.
Another penalty
Another scrum close to the try line
Spilled :(
Recycled ball. Knocked on to relieve the pressure
Hutchison (?) intercepted a pass to stop a Rising breakout from their own line.
10 mins to go
Another scrum. Rising feed in their own half.
Rising scrum DESTROYED
another penalty and kick for touch to 10m out. Driving maul.
to the backs.
Melb get the ball and run it.
Over half way.
Colby elusive. Grubber for Ili. Spirit force it. 5m scrum
Melb on attack - pick and drives near the tryline.
2 penalties against Perth.
Rangi stops Timani! Rangi tackling strong again.
Rising still going. Jack D cross kick to Marsters! Lacey just puts him touch as he goes over the line,
Timani cramping up.
Cottell breaks out. Boys a bit tired now, eventually knock on.
Convincing performance this by the Spirit.
1 min to go.
BUT PLACID scores for the Rising in the dying stages
31-18
time almost up
30 sec to go...Rising scored a try to deny Sprit a bonus point unless we get one soon
Forward pass by Melbourne (not by much) to end the game.
Decent match.
Fianl Score...Spirit win 31-21 and move up to 5th on the table.
I can see what all the hype about Konelio is, looked a real handful and heard he is line for a gig. Van Wyk did all the damage when he came on at scrum time.
On at least 3 occasions after numerous recycling up front and after the overlap was created out wide Rasolea chose to look for the closest defender to run into, bombed 2 tries,too one dimensional.
Hardwick did put himself about.
Thought Cottrell could have done a bit more with that ball at the end instead of throwing a Hail Mary but apart from that he was also very physical at the breakdown.
Goodwin showed glimpses but still nowhere near what we know he is capable of.
Rising game plan was give it to Timani and didn't bring much else.
Hm, I think your post got cut off somehow, WM.
really good defence from the Spirit set up the win,agree Rasolea took the wrong option on several occasions