HIs defence was not better last night. Again he was at 6s and 7s when defending and his indecision contributed to both of melb's tries. He was missing quite a few tackles again including one where chan almost scored again in the 2nd half.
The saving grace was that for some reason melb just stopped attacking there, and field position to punish his defensive errors disappeared when we held onto the ball. Teams like panthers will not go away from that, they will attack his edge again and again if he does not sort it out.
Mam is a husk of the player he was in 2023. His key skills then was his anticipation (he just seemed to pop up around the ball), support play, kick chase and running game.
He is rarely up supporting players any more. Last night carrigan had his arm free right near the line and had mam been pushing up where he should have been, it would have resulted in a try. His runs now are one off the play the ball and a straight line run, no jink or tackle break and a slow play the ball.
Given the money he is on, and the faith brisbane showed him during his driving incident, i am dissappointed.