Morris

[zac]

Morris was good. In the first half he saved a try when they had the overlap by not committing too early.
That try Toops scored was just a great winger's try.

[Intercept]

Morris looked shit yesterday

I thought he played well and I thought his composure in defensive situations was valuable. But there you go, two people can watch the same game and see different things.

[TDK]

Morris is safe as a house but is safe what we want. We missed Fergo’s metres and his aggression. Morris looks solid in general but he lacks the speed and size needed to make those one percenter tries that the top wingers make.

[Nicola Tesla]

Can you really assess a new player in a new team after one match in pouring rain..hardly a night for wingers. He was solid, we know what we were buying. And he did play another match with stakes, where he scored 3 tries.... can't ask for much more?
If a team is relying on a winger to win the comp, they are in trouble. An important roll but many teams have won comps with average or just sold wingers, I think Bmoz is better than average.
Lets see how it pans out!!!

[The Axe]

Morris was good. In the first half he saved a try when they had the overlap by not committing too early.
That try Toops scored was just a great winger's try.

Agreed. He backed himself to score that try. Several times I’ve seen him not do so.

But just prior he dropped a regulation catch deep in quarter. I know it rained but has too many errors in his game

toups an enigma

[ism22]

Morris is safe as a house but is safe what we want. We missed Fergo’s metres and his aggression. Morris looks solid in general but he lacks the speed and size needed to make those one percenter tries that the top wingers make.

It's one game and I reckon we still woulda lost with Fergo. Morris isn't just safe, he's strong and ran 120m (Toops ran 150 and 'went missing' JWH ran 122 (138 for SST).

These are not bad stats for a team with 43% possession, 23-32 completed sets, 6-3 penalties conceded and 15-11 'errors'.

A promising stat was that we got 5-2 line breaks. 1 Each for Toops, Morris and Maubs and 2 to Friend.

Dot points:
- Morris and Toops combined for a good stack of metres. Fergo was getting 200 a game but Toops (who is progressively getting beefier + safer with the ball) got right up there and Morris was also strong. Fergo wouldn't have won us the game. Out wingers were strong... Brett Morris is VERY strong!!!
- As a round 1 clash in the rain against one of the biggest forward packs in the comp we did alright. IMO the stats basically show that Souffs milked a bunch of penalties and got away with lots of strips (e.g. Cords coming off our line ran into 5 defenders with the ball clutched firmly under his wing and it flew out for a 'knock-on'... yeah bullshyte!!! Repeat sets followed for Souffs, finally leading to a try). The JUST got over the line with conditions heavily suited to them.
- We all have a lot to work on and while there was some BS, there were also a lot of sloppy errors from us (some caused by us trying to play around Souffs in the rain with long passes...etc - something Souffs did not attempt).
- None of this is cause for alarm. Take away the rain and give us 55% possession... Morris suddenly runs 160m and Toops runs 200. If they don't, that's when we start asking questions.

[trewhella]

Mate. Huuuuge call