You already said it....."It rained on our parade"...Weather looked horrible heading into early arvo, I was required to pull the poncho out twice but all in all I stayed pretty dry. But I guess others thought differently and preferred the option to definately stay dry..
Crowd was supposedly 12K so better than some other Sunday arvos.
I was going to be there but daughter had a car accident just before i was leaving, good win by the boys just watched it then. Good to see them all play for each other. DT had a great game as did Zilly. Mark Ioane is very promising, runs hard and is hard to take down, Ryan James gives to many penaltys, he does realize that you CANNOT put your hand on the ball in the tackle doesn't he, has any one told him?
Over all great win and i feel more confident in taking on the bunnies in a fortnight.
We have won the past two games by a combined total of 55 points. In the past we would have won those two games by a maximum combined margin of about 18. That's why I say we have turned a corner, we are beating teams comfortably this past fortnight. We should have done that to the Dragons and the Warriors as well.
Agree about the 'ball stranglers' - good term. We need Alby and Sezar to mature to the point where they can demand the ball and let those guys know what they think when they get in the way.
The other great aspect of the game was watching it WITHOUT O'Dwyer and Michaels there to stink the game up. I've gotta say though Kevvie Gordon is still not looking good at all. He is slow, can't break tackles and is caught out in defence too often. I hope Carty chooses the team on merits when Mead returns because Don looks the better player.
It's a funny game rugby league. You play to the percentages and get whacked; you chance your arm, make a few mistakes and you win by a lot (even with penalties against you and the minority of possession) ... hence all the crying about the lack of expansive play over the last how many years.
For all those old timers on here, I remember as a kid teams playing in the NSWRL, circa 1965, playing something then called "contract football" ... a style where every player made a "contract" with their team mates to back them up either in attack or in defence. Anybody proven to be not participating was dropped ... rugby league is a funny game.
Four reasons to escape to Queensland: Sun, Surf, Sand & the Titans.
The really good thing in the last two weeks is the team seems to be playing attacking footy. Rather than just hit it up and try to wear them down they are attacking the opposition and forcing defenders to make decisions and the results are there for all to see. If they play like that against Melbourne and South's they will have a very good chance at winning the game. Loved watching the last two games and I haven't said that for a while.
Hail, those stats are BS mate, sort it out. cant be posting inaccurate stuff here all willy nilly.