Like a lot of others I was shouting for the introduction of Lee Smith. We looked to be tiring, pressing the self destruct button whilst having an unused experienced head on the subs bench was a gamble which clearly came off. It was a brave (or clever) move by the coach. I think if we had lost, feelings on this thread might have been somewhat different. Still, the end justified the means and a wins a win.

Presumably if we had held onto the 28-6 lead for a bit longer he could have played the final 20 mins and then been in better shape to play a bigger part next week. It seemed to me like the sort of calculated risk that coaches have to take which this time didnt work out.

I'd bet similar, I didn't see Smith so don't know what sort of shape he looks to be in, but I assume when it got to squeaky bum time maybe he didn't think that was the time to let Smith stretch his legs

I must have missed this conversation last week when Halafihi was the unused sub...!

I notice that foreign bloke/blokess is still writing the match reports.

Largely because people were just relieved we didn't have to see the useless bugger on the pitch so kept quiet about it in the hope he didn't get game time next week.