Ref ruled that he lept from the field of play hence goal line drop. Looked to me like he purposefully stepped into the in goal fractionally before leaving the ground so should have been 20m restart.
Yep he played well yesterday, far better than the previous few weeks. Agree that he needs to focus on more direct aggressive runs and pcms and run onto the ball rather than receiving it flat footed.
Could see Murray get a run at 13. Perhaps we play Roberts on the edge, Sione back to the bench middle rotation, keep Latu at 14 with Royce and Seyfarth.
(Sione still have a mandatory 11 days if it was a Cat2?)
He would never come to us, but Herbie F would transform our backline. Mate I’d throw the kitchen sink at him if there was even half a chance.
Taylan and Maka on one side. Herbie and Turuva on the other with Bula at the back. AD and Luai in the halves. Latu at 14.
How good!!
We have needed a centre from the start of the season and even more so now. I would prefer a tall rangy type who can cover for our short wingers if needed in the air when we are up against the teams with big wingers taking attacking kicks over the top of our guys.
Every time they went back to their edges they had an overlap. We never seem to be able to defend anything out wide. Our backs are all too small and there is no trust in D.
Our wingers are tiny and there is a complete mismatch when we play against teams with guys like Saab, Coates, Tupou, Marky...
The game starts with your pack going forward and at least holding their own in the ruck. No halfback is any good when your middles are dominated. Look at Hughes the last few months. Even Cleary last year when Penrith were struggling.
Madden was good when he had time and space and we had the...
Now that I’ve calmed down a little my realistic take on the game is as follows:
1) i knew we couldn’t score enough points to win without a huge focus and effort in D.
2) all indications were that Storm were going to be up and would finally hit their straps
3) the team we fielded would probably...
Really worried that we don’t have any points in us without Api, Bula, AD, Sam F. These guys have been responsible for, and the creators of, the majority of our points so far. We will have to focus on our D big time.
It’s less about the Sharks and more about the Rabbits. Souths playing with super aggressive D and line speed. Very few mistakes as well. Bullying Sharks and winning the ruck. Exactly what we didn’t do. We played with no line speed or aggression. We aloud them room to run and gain momentum...
Edge players for Dolphins were good tonight. Averillo to come back into the Dolphins side. Their backs are high level Isaako, Cobbo, Bostock, Farnsworth, Hammer, Nikorima, Katoa.