The Eels were fucking woeful on Friday night. Brad Arthur would have no cause for celebration after their performance.
The Broncos were selfish and wasteful in attack, that's why we lost (going ourself close to the line, one-off forward power play at the line and dropped balls).
The Broncos were complacent and got done by 10 minutes of individual brilliance from Hayne and Peats and a "diamonds" moment from Sandow's mostly rocks performance for the previous 75 minutes of the game.
Radradra's try - Hodges lazy lapse in defence from 10 months out of the game. Copley and Maranta would have defended that better.
The Broncos are a much better team than the Eels and dominated the game on Friday night during the first 15 minutes, the 30-40 minute mark, the first 25 minutes of the second half. When Barba "scored" that no try, there was a sense of inevitability that it should be that easy to put the Eels away.
Honestly, we should be good enough to not fall into the "bait and switch" efforts of teams like the Eels but we do, and hopefully it's a lesson learned to put rubbish to the sword, rather than lower our standard to the opposition's.
