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Anyone saying we planned for Sicily, Newcombe watched a different game to me.

We rolled Sicily’s man up to the stoppage had no one paying direct attention to him or trying to put themselves in a dangerous position if he zoned off them. We instead pushed an extra up and kicked it straight to him. Yes a player can have a good game against you but when they are operating at 100% efficiency it’s because they are under no pressure.

Newcombe was manned by JOD at multiple forward 50 stoppages for them that suggests no direct attention given to him.

On the opposite Jones was kept deep and wide by Gunston all night basically out of the contest and when Gunston was subbed, whoever jones went to ran him up the ground generally to the switch position so either he went with them and was taken out of defence or he zoned off and it allowed them to switch and overlap in transition