Us vs the Storm **live game thread**

[Spud_Murphy]

Heartbreaking loss for sure, especially when we were the better team all night, but very proud of the boys for that effort. Matching it with one of the benchmark teams at their home ground for all but 2 minutes is worth a wrap.

We don't seem to have trouble against the Storm, it's the rubbish teams we struggle against

Yes true, if we can just rectify that we would go a long way to playing finals football.

Never like losing a game, but I feel a whole lot better after that loss than the one against Penrith - Penrith are crap, Melbourne aren't.

 

[TIGER]

Can we get ourselves up again next week after that?
I doubt it.

What hurts is the Storm aren't at their best yet still win, we probably played our best game of the year and we lose.

 

[Madge]

@TIGER lol forgot we had south Sydney next week... oh well there goes another one.

 

[TYGA]

Big performance! Storm at home are tough.
We need to keep that level up all year. That’s how you challenge. We won’t win every game but will beat most. Unlucky in the end but we had opportunities to put that away.

We need a game breaker in the backs seriously lacking pace and a threat out wide.

 

[hodgo]

they are the second best team in the comp and one of the comps powerhouses. Thats an awesome effort from our boys.

 

[BenzaTiger]

@The_Patriot
Agree with your first statement but I think Fonua played well tonight

 

[Coastie_Tiger]

How the he'll did we lose that, Brooks needs to get his game management right his kick before Chambers try put them on the front foot. I'm still scratching my head in disbelief lucky to still have a tv functioning.

 

[hobbo1]

@formerguest This is the only criticism I have Farah was shot and Liddle would of made a difference with a fatigued defence maybe Madge can answer that one.

Agree
That pass to matterson was diabolical.

 

[AL The Tiger]

@The_Patriot You can't be serious. You're blaming Maguire when his structure and coaching was the only reason we were even in the game. Compare the bloody quality of players on paper and you would expect a blowout. He's got us playing some of the best footy in a long time with some structure and cohesiveness... All that this team needs is to learn to stop dozing off in short periods which have cost us twice now.

You've been blaming Fonua ever since they blew that full time whistle, but other than that last missed tackle (which really wasn't all that costly, because the other 5 blokes who attempted the tackles after still missed) but I can't think of any other mistake of his today. He was good. You also complain about Madge holding back Mikaele and Liddle in the dying moments. Think about that for a second. We're holding on to a lead, do you really want to bring Mikaele (who - for all his good traits - is still well inexperienced, clumsy with the ball and ill disciplined at times) and Liddle (Farah's much more composed and reliable) on??? You're just complaining for the sake of complaining. That was our best performance all year...

 

[WT2K]

Big performance! Storm at home are tough.
We need to keep that level up all year. That’s how you challenge. We won’t win every game but will beat most. Unlucky in the end but we had opportunities to put that away.

We need a game breaker in the backs seriously lacking pace and a threat out wide.

Agree with your post. Especially the game breaker in the backs

 

[Tim Sheens]

Why didn't Liddle get on?

Because the coach stuffed up and t that was just one of his mistakes, with not taking time away from the storm late for a penalty shot.

 

[Moh]

@TigersBusDriver It hurts so much, but those are my exact thoughts, especially about not using Liddle

 

[hobbo1]

How the he'll did we lose that, Brooks needs to get his game management right his kick before Chambers try put them on the front foot. I'm still scratching my head in disbelief lucky to still have a tv functioning.

It was straight down vunivalu’s throat ...
Piss poor imo

 

[TheDaBoss]

if we had won it.. my MVP would have been papenhauzens shoe

 

[TCL]

@Earl he was found out a couple of times tonight. They just didn’t lead to tries.

 

[Spud_Murphy]

Big performance! Storm at home are tough.
We need to keep that level up all year. That’s how you challenge. We won’t win every game but will beat most. Unlucky in the end but we had opportunities to put that away.

We need a game breaker in the backs seriously lacking pace and a threat out wide.

Yeah lack of pace is what's holding us back big time! If we had a speedster like Ado-Carr in our backline when Brooks took that intercept early on it would've been shut the gate. Just one fast three quarter would do, just one 🙏🏿

 

[AL The Tiger]

Can't believe what I'm reading at the moment. Alright, guys, it was our 5th coach in 7 years' fault that we lose 24-22 to one of the best teams in the comp. Far out, we might be seeing the 6th one very soon.

 

[jojo]

Mbye bombed a try when he should have passed for the easiest of tries. Then two easy tries for them when all 80kg of Papenhauyzen runs straight through McQueen, Brooks and Robbie and then Brooks decides not to contest a cross field kick when our fullback was not in the same postcode. hardly the coaches fault.

 

[hsvjones]

Hard to take this one...
Best part was not getting flogged and have a big negative For and against However we cannot keep have these games where we walk off saying we gave it a good shot and played great. We need the 2 points more than anyone.

 

[Sabre]

The worst part is that you could just see it coming.
Too many times we've thrown away a game at the death when we've been the better side.