“The boys were gutted last night and even (still) this morning when we woke up. “There are some tough (lessons) there for everyone involved.”The lessons, however, will need to be assimilated in a hurry, with the two sides scheduled to meet again next Saturday in Brisbane. Alaalatoa acknowledged a lot of their issues stemmed from the platform he and his fellow forwards failed to set and that was something they needed to fix in a hurry. “The playmakers can’t do their job if as a forward pack we’re losing the ball,” he said. It’s something that we need to look at.”

Source: The Star November 01, 2020 21:00 UTC