Okay, I'll do a quick match analysis now that i've had some time to think about that game. Basically, based off that game which is against the Roosters, our bogey team, we should all be hoping for a top 8 position, 6-8 most likely. Our organisation was good, kick chase good, discipline good and defence, compared to last year, good.
We lost that game cause we wanted to. From about 5min in, i felt like our boys weren't putting in as much as they could have. Held their own against a bunch of penalties and pressure, so that was good. Then, add in a couple of injuries in anasta, ayshford and woods we were down a bit of power (especially aaron). So, essentially our forwards were able to be run over because of injuries + a few bad performances. Galloway and blair were carrying the whole pack.
Finally, was the performance of the young guns. not. good. Improvement to be made there FOR SURE. I don't know what happened, pressure, luck who knows. But they'll be playing nsw cup for the next few weeks, rory should get a call up before them i would guess.
Overall, i think we can take some positives out of that. The roosters clearly wanted the cup more than us and got it. Once we get woods back, and try to build that OOMPH in the forwards I think we can definitely win 50%+ of our games in 2013\. few other minor things, like the younger players (who should be given some slack) and benji's defence too.