USA v. Canada thoughts and view.

USA vs CANADA was anything but boring. hard faught battle that really went back and forth, but what really stood out was the fight the Eagles had in them. in Scotland we saw small burst of attack but in the end the scotts had the better team. in LA against Japan USA came out swinging and showed much more life but with the huge upswing japan has been on over the last year the strickness and confident in style play lead to japan peforme better in the end.

Now we welcome Canada who for the most part was playing much better then the Eagles where in against the same opponents. The game from the begging started off the best it could of for USA. taking the penalty points from the begging and going up 6-0 I still believe was smart. in the game against Scotland and in past with Canada usa has always struggled when it came to a scoring war, so why not go up right away with "safe" points versus working it and causing a penalty that would swing the momentum back to Canada. Todd clever really showed up and showed us why he is called Capitan America. as the winding moments came down in the first half, I think its safe to say we all went" Oh no here we go again USA falling asleep and falling in a deep hole" and same with the begging with the 2nd half and usa going down 17 points.

But then the magic started to happen. Wyles kick to make it 35-21 was the spark the players needed. soon the 20 point unanswered run by the Eagles sent the 8,000 sold out Bonney stadium into a frenzy. the last 5 minutes was absolute heart racing, attack after attack Canada sent in the eagles 10 meter was meet by constant iron wall of the defense. finally USA was able to get a hold of the ball and kick it in to touch to end the game. 5 years of frustration was finally meet with loud screams of joy from all around. We have finally beaten our pesky neighbors to the north.

in the end if you where to exam the game from start to finish the one thing I saw that made me happy was, These guys didn't give up. they fraught till the very end, in moments where they could easily roll over and just played simple rugby to keep Canada from scoring more they attacked Canada at every angle and hole they could find. with several deep runs it paid off. I for one think the Canadians where caught off guard and didn't expect this much intensity let alone length of intensity to last the entire game. The core group of eagles needs more playing time with each other and whether that means squeezing in one more match against a T2 or T3 opponent I say do it. in the end the costs would be worth it because you are now getting players more time with each other and a chance to work with coaching staff longer and be comfortable as they go into there "break" and back to there clubs. I also firmly believe that the coaching staff needs to start working on depth with in the "core" group of players so when the day that clever, or wyles or samu finally step down or worse injured there wont be this giant question mark of who will step in. in staid you would have this said player standing by who has experience with the starting squad.