Bulliac wrote:
Good question as there are a few we've no real knowledge of, apart from self created youtube montages, which don't seem to have much of an error count
I'm sure that's 'cos they don't make any... Lol.
Seriously though, I'm confident Jimmy has done his homework and I'm looking forward to seeing the whole lot of them pull on a RA&B jumper next season. It 's going to be good having a full set of props, that's for sure.
There are a few highlights of Mackay Cutters 2014 games some edited and posted by their opponents, and watching them I can say that Karl Davies coughs up the ball in one hitup and thats it. He seems to be in or around the action often so maybe getting used to full time playing wont be too difficult for him, though he is pretty easy to spot. Ulugia is in a number of shots including a try but no obvious mistakes other than receiving a hospital pass on the touchline so not his error, its Peterson thats difficult to spot.
I am primarily most interested to see how the team collectively plays, given jimmy (and Steve) have been able to build a team from scratch. You would expect him to build it round a style of play. Key as you imply Bulliac is how the pack does, and that means how Tahraoui and Davies do in stepping up. Given that Tahraoui trained with the squad I guess they had a good look at him and saw something more than size, and from the vids Davies looks as if he has the desire and can run a bit too. So if they show up, with the ability in the rest of the pack that should provide other players such as Sjielka, Uisele with the platform. Steve said that they were after both steady props and fireworks props, Sidlow the former and Clough too, so if Tahroui and Davies are the fireworks then they will not be expected to do long stints, but off the bench hit ups. Its how the likes of Ulugia, Halafihi Peterson and Shaw all shape up to become the depth we need, Ulugia is the only one of those on a two year contract the others have a bit of convincing to do.
