Moving on...
I didn't realise how well Thaiday played. His tackle on Burgess' after Souths second try was inspirational and he was coming up with a lot of 1%ers during the contest. His try was well deserved and really well orchestrated from the Broncos. It goes to show what can happen when you allow Milford to roam around the field.
We know how bad Milford's shoulder is, but any word on Korbin's nose? The poor guy couldn't cop a break.
Back to Milford, and that set-up for Kahu was class. There really wasn't a lot doing for the Broncos, the play had broken down after a sloppy pass from dummy half the tackle before. Milford just got his hands on the football, managed to read the situation perfectly and set up a vital two points.
I wasn't overly impressed with the final 15 minutes. After the short kick-off, Souths were there for the taking. Just a couple of poor options, silly mistakes and cheap penalties hurt us. One play I wanted to highlight was Milford's grubber kick in the 65th minute. Not only was it a poor option, the execution of the kick wasn't great as Milford didn't dig in enough to give his chasers time or hold up the defence. It's that attention to detail that he has to work on with his grubbers, his choice of angles and habit of kicking early is why he often finds the legs of his opponents.
That nearly backfired spectacularly but Walker dropped it cold. Even though the mistake was on Walker, I'm not sure if the break would have been as fatal as it first looked. Aaron Gray decided to run back in-field for whatever reason, which may have tripped Cody up. I'm not entirely sure what to make of Aaron...he's a powerful runner of the footy and he bumped off some defenders on the night but he makes some bizarre choices.
He isn't like Kahu who came up with a huge play at the death. After Crichton smashed Korbin's nose into a million pieces, Souths went left where Bryson Goodwin had done well to force an offload. However, Kahu managed to get a hand to it and knock it back. I'm sure others picked up on it, the referees certainly did but I missed that detail. It's amazing that the referees could pick up on something like that and yet miss a blatant tackle in mid-air, say what you will but that non-call helped Souths score that early second half try. They defended really well off of that tackle, forcing McCullough to put in a danty looking long kick which put them back into prime field position.
One of the reasons why I was so confused about the Darius' criticism was because of his lead-up work for the Moga No Try. The entire opportunity basically came because of a strong kick-return from Darius where he was able to maintain his feet despite the attention of three defenders. His good play the ball got Brisbane rolling that set, forced a repeat set and Darius bobbed up on both sides of the field, before timing a beautiful pass. For his efforts alone, the Broncos should have scored but Tautau's loose carry happened to be penalised on that occasion.
