Anyone give Souths a chance?
Yeah
but teams have a habit of winning their follow up GF after losing the year before but Panthers winning it will just end me.
panthers gunna have tears in their eyes post game either way I just hope it's the saddsies ones.
That's the problem when you pretty much win every game comfortably during the season, doesn't put you in good stead at the business end when things get tight.
less a problem for the professional outfit used to getting the job done in finals that is the storm. they just put in one of those rare shocking storm performances. you might see 1 or 2 a year where their ball control is poor and unfortunately they even rarer put up that display in a prelim. they were terrible by their standards other than their defense which was fantastic generally speaking but panthers was even better.
their attack was very clunky and disjointed , munster was hopeless, grant not good either. but losing cheese and welch might have been the difference, they just couldn't compensate for that but usually they would.
even so they were in the game
In the NRL.com player ratings for this game they say that Scott Sorensen didn't make the Shsrk's 2016 GF side. Ummm...that was because he was playing for another club.
playing for another club in reggies that is. even if he was with us in 2016 he wouldn't have made that GF squad and would have been depth. we won that game anyway so not sure if NRL.com is trying to make a point.
it wasn't until Scott moved to the Panthers that he really started to make a first grade profile for himself and become better known and even so I don't think he has been a regular week to week selection at the panthers though I may be wrong. Prob the only thing I don't hate about that Panthers team is Sorro, I am happy he is going well.
Capewell was in our 2016 squad and also didn't play in the GF. in hindsight would have been a better choice than Beale who was an opposition Trojan horse during our finals campaign haha