A few thoughts out of tonight:
We’re a young(ish) team, so the dumb will happen, but my god there’s some dumb and panicked football in there.
Loz Brown, as much as I love her, is not a half and I’ve never thought she should be one. Hooker or plug-a-hole super sub is all she should be, because she’s great at that, there’s just no halves creativity in her and the ball seemingly always died with her. None of our backs got much early ball because it stopped at the halves and second rowers.
And as a follow-on, where are all the halves? With Ali gone and Tarryn always injured, we can’t leave it to Brown and CKR, despite how good the latter has looked at times. We need some better depth asap
Finally Cross is an idiot, by picking 3 small hookers and leaving Clark and Duzzi x2 out of the team respectively, while we get run over every set and pushed back on hitups. But still he persisted.
And honestly aside from Brill’s 10mins in game 1, and Jada here and there but she paired it with equal bad, none of them were that great to demand a spot (and in my ideal team, Brown would be hooker anyway)
They did well to only just fall short in every game, but it was so frustrating because they were also easily winnable.
This current Blues team isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, but they’ll gloat like they’re the unbeatable 8-in-row QLD team
Oh and can we have the season start before these games already? The first game and a half is always terrible. Give them a month to six weeks and then have a break, benefits both comps imo