Who are the ref lovers Henchmann?
fergo was absolutely robbed. 44-22 in my book, not that it makes any difference.
TBH I only watched the second half, but I saw the highlights of the first. So my (significantly impaired) thoughts:
Positives
Nice to see Gordon and Vave get their first tries- and Gordon's was an absolute cracker. Everyone enjoyed that yeah?
Also loved Gordon's try-saver on Folau, great tackle in off his wing.
When Smith gets some decent ball and gets involved, he looks a bit like Scott Prince. Good try.
Vave looked like he played more minutes, and good ones.
Brod Wright tried hard and his carries were better than I expected.
Negatives
Barrett ended up making the kick too often. Smith's the better kicker, he needs to have the ball on the last.
Dropped the footy too much.
Whenever Lockyer got the ball on the right and engaged a couple of defenders, Brisbane looked like they were going to score through either Thaiday or Folau. Reason: Tautai. He either needs to swap with Fergo or we bring in Matt Wright. He's just not a centre at this level- he could play wing or second row, but not centre.
Pom missed some tackles and Brisbane looked dangerous down his edge. *EDIT: Pom made some horrible defensive decisions as well. What to do, what to do with our centres.
Whenever McCullough got the ball at dummy half and ran they looked like scoring. It was the same problem as against manly last week- we lost that middle third of the ground in attack and in defence and thus had no control over the game. Brod Wright's miss that led to a try in the 2nd half was a good example, atrocious. This has to be our focus for the rest of the year- winning that middle third in attack and defence.
Injuries. What's the damage? Did I hear the commentators say something about Snowy??? Who else?
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AB - you've made the most sense so far
It's farely simple - we had a lot go against us today - a few iffy calls, a couple of bad bounces - but the good teams get over that - poms can't tackle, barret doesn't do enough, defensively we don't move up in a line (basic stuff), we give away an avalanche of penalties (usually in the first half) which gives us 35% posession if we're lucky. Some of those penalties were obvious before they were called (eg morris when he was called out by the ref but still followed thru with the tackle). End result is we spend most of the game in our quarter and they run at our worst defenders (poms' side) and "surprise" they score. I'm not quite sure on the solution here, and I have no idea why dougie was benched, but surely our training by our supposedly elite coach should be heavily geared to our defence from our backline? I mean ffs, tackle the man with the ball?
fergo was absolutely robbed. 44-22 in my book, not that it makes any difference.
TBH I only watched the second half, but I saw the highlights of the first. So my (significantly impaired) thoughts:
Positives
Nice to see Gordon and Vave get their first tries- and Gordon's was an absolute cracker. Everyone enjoyed that yeah?
Also loved Gordon's try-saver on Folau, great tackle in off his wing.
When Smith gets some decent ball and gets involved, he looks a bit like Scott Prince. Good try.
Vave looked like he played more minutes, and good ones.
Brod Wright tried hard and his carries were better than I expected.
Negatives
Barrett ended up making the kick too often. Smith's the better kicker, he needs to have the ball on the last.
Dropped the footy too much.
Whenever Lockyer got the ball on the right and engaged a couple of defenders, Brisbane looked like they were going to score through either Thaiday or Folau. Reason: Tautai. He either needs to swap with Fergo or we bring in Matt Wright. He's just not a centre at this level- he could play wing or second row, but not centre.
Pom missed some tackles and Brisbane looked dangerous down his edge. *EDIT: Pom made some horrible defensive decisions as well. What to do, what to do with our centres.
Whenever McCullough got the ball at dummy half and ran they looked like scoring. It was the same problem as against manly last week- we lost that middle third of the ground in attack and in defence and thus had no control over the game. Brod Wright's miss that led to a try in the 2nd half was a good example, atrocious. This has to be our focus for the rest of the year- winning that middle third in attack and defence.
Injuries. What's the damage? Did I hear the commentators say something about Snowy??? Who else?
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AB - you've made the most sense so far
It's farely simple - we had a lot go against us today - a few iffy calls, a couple of bad bounces - but the good teams get over that - poms can't tackle, barret doesn't do enough, defensively we don't move up in a line (basic stuff), we give away an avalanche of penalties (usually in the first half) which gives us 35% posession if we're lucky. Some of those penalties were obvious before they were called (eg morris when he was called out by the ref but still followed thru with the tackle). End result is we spend most of the game in our quarter and they run at our worst defenders (poms' side) and "surprise" they score. I'm not quite sure on the solution here, and I have no idea why dougie was benched, but surely our training by our supposedly elite coach should be heavily geared to our defence from our backline? I mean ffs, tackle the man with the ball?
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