Like many of the team I don't think Boshell has been at his best so far. However, without him our passing game is massively affected, this was very evident on Saturday. He is the go to midfield player for the back four and allows us to calm it a bit when under pressure. At times Sat reminded me of the game at Brackley. NFU were in our faces from the off and never really allowed us to get into a passing pattern, hence a fair bit of hoofball which got us nowhere as has been said. If Boshell had started I think things would've been different.
That said, whilst NFU were no cloggers they did leave their foot in at every opportunity. Fair enough, their manager knew we like to pass it around, but when the referee made it clear after the first challenge he'd put up with 'slightly late' tackles they took full advantage.