Sheffield were awful, I mean utter garbage. They reminded me in may ways of us at times last season. On the negative side we were up to our usual trick in first half, error or penalty, 2 or 3 tackles later Sheffield try. And the game became pretty untidy in the second when the Eagles seemed intent on headhunting Garside and Battye - wonder why. The flow to the game was lost, culminating in Magrin and Aston being sin binned and soon after Eagles getting two tries in last 5 or so mins. BUT in the meantime we played some tremendous stuff, defensively organised, robust in contact, on the whole purposeful kicking game and no end of flair in attack. Not perfect by any means but a real confidence booster.
The interesting scenario - and I could quite work out what was going on when we had Barthau, Cunningham, Ackers and Bussey on the field at the same time, assume Cunningham hooker to s/o, Bussey s/o to lock, Ackers to hooker - nice use of the troops in the absence of an out and out 6.
