By Zippy
June 18 2005

My player ratings for the Lions 30-19 win over Otago this morning. Its going to be very short as I´m on hols!

Rowntree (7) - Played very agressively

Bulloch (7) - Solid game in a position no one has put their hand up for, Thompson cannot start with that lineout throwing.

Stevens (7) - Big game against highly rated loosehead

Shaw (6) - Bit slow for this level, but did the basics and threw his weight around

O´Callaghan (5) - Bit one dimensional

Easterby (8) - Another big game, has really put his name in the mix

Williams (8) - Showed the player he is with some great scavenging work

R Jones (9) - What an impact

Cusiter (8) - Played well in every game

Hodgson (8) - Great attacking option

S Williams (8) - Glimpses of the danger he can be and set up some tries

DÁrcy (6) - Ok not the player he was.

Greenwood (7) - Old head in defence and steadies the ship, intellengent try but lost his head!

Hickie (6) - Dirt tracker, never going to bother NZ defences and weak tackling

Murphy (6) - Puts himself in the right positions but dropped too many today.

Clive has 2 options for the tests:

Welsh expansive play or English 10 man, both could gain a victory but a mix will not work, whats he going to do?