Our defense last week against the Dogs was quite good and I noticed we made alot of effort to wrap up the ball and cut off the offload / passing options in that game which must have been recongnised as a weakness of ours so was good to see we were addressing it.
Well this week I thought our defense was sublime and we didn't need to cut off the offloads because with our line speed we were already up in the ball carriers face smashing them and the attacker was flat out just holding onto the ball.
Different approaches but that's 2 games in a row our goal line defense has been rock solid and we have kept the opposition line breaks under 2 for the whole game while making a bunch ourselves.
We played the Storm the right way - with aggression! When we turn up with that sort of energy and commitment you can't help but smile and be proud, you just know we are on and going to play closer to our potential.
Let's hope we have a few more performances like that in the tank in the coming weeks and through the finals cause we can challenge anyone when we play so hard and fast. Think we just gotta pretend the opposition is wearing purple jerseys (though we didn't have to pretend all that much in that first half against Manly!)
btw check it out when Cheese is walking towards the tunnel after being sin binned , Fifita stairs at him from the bench with the steel eyes and it looks like he is about to say something to Cheese just before the camera cuts