Losing the ball off your own maul, particularly off your own lineout is a cardinal sin. Given how close they must've been to the line, that's good defense by the Giants.
Izett throws in for the Spartans Good lift – Clean catch by Davis Davis runs forwards Spartans set up a maul Maul collapses – ball not coming back Scrum to SPARTANS
Hornby feeds the scrum Cleanly back to Hornby A good hook by Izett Hornby passes to Luffman Luffman passes to Orr before being up-ended by Gemmell Good pass taken by Farhat on the run Farhat sidesteps the defence Farhat slips the ball to BL Hornby Hornby sidesteps the defence Hornby’s dive over the line beats a despairing Farnsworth. TRY for the Spartans After 17 minutes, the score is 3-8 to the Spartans.
Luffman will try to add the conversion from 34 metres It’s from near the touchline Not an easy kick His first kick of the day Swinging wide of the right hand post
Ames restarts for the Giants Easy take for Chung Chung can’t get past Ames A ruck is formed Ball back to Hornby Hornby passes to JRE Luffman Luffman’s pass is taken in full stride by JP Wilkinson JP Wilkinson breaks loose Passed to McGrath McGrath shrugs off a half tackle from Dafter He evades a tackle Ames gets the tackle in A ruck is formed The Spartans have been awarded a penalty Handling in the ruck Someone’s talked back to the ref Penalty moved forward 10 metres
In the sim; a safe touch = an average, maybe slightly below average kick. Although I will give you, his tactical kicking is fairly decent.
