We ought to beat these ****s and convincingly, again. If the Origin boys all play I'll be ****ing filthy if the 2 points don't come our way.
Yep! Filthy!
We just went backwards about 12 weeks. That was pathetic. Despite scoring first we were never in that game past the 20min mark. Why they had such a tough week in training is beyond me, and it showed today they were tired and sluggish. There was no urgency in anything we did, especially defence - did we even move up off the line at all or just wait for them to come to us?
I think Ricky over did them for this match. We weren't coming up against a good side, Newcastle are rubbish and they still were today, we were just worse. All we had to do was hold the ball, cart it up, kick, chase and wait for the Knights to **** it up. We'd get home easily off the back of our superior forwards and if the backs turned it on we'd romp it home. Instead we tried to get fancy with offloads and crap that just wasn't on.
What was the point of having Wright warm the bench for 72 minutes? Fair enough if we were going well you don't mess with something thats working and only 16 blokes will be used. But when you're going ****house, and there is a top candidate for a hooking in the form of Tupou, well Wright wasn't gonna do any worse, surely.
Thats our season gone with that performance. A complete **** up from the outset. I still can't get past why we'd have such a physical lead up for this and that is what cost us. I'm not laying the boot into Ricky, he obviously had something else in mind and things didn't go to plan, but he dropped the ball on this one big time.
And Gallen, for ****s sake he's gotta get less ball. I lost count of the amount of times we would of been better off letting Galls run through and instead picking up the deeper runner. When Galls starts a run no less than 3 defenders set themselves for big contact, whether he gets the ball or not he's gotten their attention which would open up some time and space for someone else. Although a bit of a gumby most of the time, Poms was making his way through pretty well this arvo and if he had Gallen running some decoy his odds of breaking through would increase big time.
What a **** of a game. What a waste of a season.