\u201cWe\u2019ve hardly played together, and it\u2019s our first week with a lot of boys back in. At half-time, we spoke about looking after the ball, being tough and making sure, after three or four phases, that we give ourselves good opportunities.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was about keeping the ball for that amount of time and not giving them cheap turnovers to attack us on.\u201d<\/p>\n
After two dramatic opening rounds of the PREM, it was a much more settled second-half performance from the men in Black, Green and Gold as they built a lead in the final quarter that they resolutely defended through to the final whistle.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe full squad were awesome,\u201d Chick continued. \u201cThe boys who started did well, and then the boys who came off the bench had a huge impact.<\/p>\n
\u201cGuys like Henry Pollock<\/a>, Anthony Belleau, Luke Green<\/a>, Craig Wright<\/a>, they all had a huge impact on the game, and that\u2019s what you want from your subs.<\/p>\n \u201cThat 60-minute mark when boys start to fall off and get tired, it\u2019s important to bring that energy, and we showed that in the last 20 minutes. We got over that one-score game and tried to control it.<\/p>\n \u201cThe scrum resets obviously helped us, but they\u2019re always going to be messy, these games, because there\u2019s so much emotion and history around it. We knew it would always be close, so to come out with a win, we\u2019re pretty happy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019ve hardly played together, and it\u2019s our first week with a lot of boys back in. At half-time,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-198016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}