In theory maybe. But the big negative with a bad surface is it slows the game down.
You have to wait and watch a ball the whole way before it comes to your foot, if you don't trust at what height or speed it will arrive. Just more difficult to play at a high pace, especially when you are otherwise training day in day out on the NZCIS billiard table pitches.
Don't get me wrong, the Nix were poor. And I only saw the last 30 mins when it seems they were at their best. Move on, and judge later if is a reversion to last season's sharke or a bad game hiccup enroute to things improving. Again positives are that Payne, Armiento and Eze who are all likely ALM starters got their first mins.
You have to wait and watch a ball the whole way before it comes to your foot, if you don't trust at what height or speed it will arrive. Just more difficult to play at a high pace, especially when you are otherwise training day in day out on the NZCIS billiard table pitches.
Don't get me wrong, the Nix were poor. And I only saw the last 30 mins when it seems they were at their best. Move on, and judge later if is a reversion to last season's sharke or a bad game hiccup enroute to things improving. Again positives are that Payne, Armiento and Eze who are all likely ALM starters got their first mins.
