Round 9 - Broncos vs Storm - Post Match Discussion
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Bull Shark
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draggx said:
No way is Hunt the answer at no. 6
Charmamba
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The Rock said:
That kick was not cracking under pressure, It was simply just "missing a sideline conversion" every player does it at some point.
As for standing up at the critical times, i think Parker did just that in the way he led the team. he was always there standing up ready to take the next run and always putting his everything into it. That inspirses your players and that is a captains job.
The fact all you can fault from Parker in the whole 80minutes shows just how good he was for the team. There was nothing else to really fault because he gave it EVERYTHING. Captains job.
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+1draggx said:
Cronk isn't off contract until end of next year, by 2013 I'm not sure I want him. I'd rather stick with our own players tbh. I don't like buying players, the thing I love about this team is having so much of our own players, it's a great feeling.
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Crazy Sam said:
Only 25,501 at the wooden spoon battle across town.
34k is a solid crowd for a Saturday night as you say. :)[/quote:iim32ec8]
Good lord thats their first official local derby between each other and could only draw that? pissweak.
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Had to record the game as I was at my cricket preso (where I won $750!!!), so only just finished watching.
I am devastated. I hate losing like that. I would rather get flogged 50-0 than have false hope that we would pull off a huge upset! [icon_lol1.
Such an gutsy performance from the young lads. Melbourne looked like they could run it away with it a few times, but we held on and came back to 22-22. Was fantastic to see.
Wallace had a strong match, as did Beale and Hala.
Everyone else was pretty solid, although once again I was disappointed with McCullough. He has so much potential, but frustrates me no end with his slow service and tunnel vision. I think it's time he got dropped for a week or two just to let him know he needs to pick up his game.
I am devastated. I hate losing like that. I would rather get flogged 50-0 than have false hope that we would pull off a huge upset! [icon_lol1.
Such an gutsy performance from the young lads. Melbourne looked like they could run it away with it a few times, but we held on and came back to 22-22. Was fantastic to see.
Wallace had a strong match, as did Beale and Hala.
Everyone else was pretty solid, although once again I was disappointed with McCullough. He has so much potential, but frustrates me no end with his slow service and tunnel vision. I think it's time he got dropped for a week or two just to let him know he needs to pick up his game.
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Torn between losing to the team I hate most, and the great effort by the boys.
Still disappointed some by some soft defense through the middle which cost us the game.
I really can't stand Macca anymore. That is now the third game in a row where he loses the ball in our attacking 20 because he's so slow. The comentators have already picked up on it and so will every coach in the NRL!
In sum, I tend to agree with Hook's assessment of the game: We were still good enough for 22 pts, but were let down by our defense.
Enough of the negatives.
Proud of the effort by the boys. Great game from Wallace and Parker, while most other players did quite good too.
Norman was better in the halves than Hunt imo, especially in the second half, but desperatly needs to improve on his defense. Hala was a revelation to me, he's a monster unit, who runs hard and straight.
Beale oscillated between the great and the mediocre, with a few bad decisions in defense, but Reed's try was fantastic, as was Gagai's.
All in all, a good headache to have for Griffin when he selects his team for the visit to the Panthers... icon_thumbs_u
Still disappointed some by some soft defense through the middle which cost us the game.
I really can't stand Macca anymore. That is now the third game in a row where he loses the ball in our attacking 20 because he's so slow. The comentators have already picked up on it and so will every coach in the NRL!
In sum, I tend to agree with Hook's assessment of the game: We were still good enough for 22 pts, but were let down by our defense.
Enough of the negatives.
Proud of the effort by the boys. Great game from Wallace and Parker, while most other players did quite good too.
Norman was better in the halves than Hunt imo, especially in the second half, but desperatly needs to improve on his defense. Hala was a revelation to me, he's a monster unit, who runs hard and straight.
Beale oscillated between the great and the mediocre, with a few bad decisions in defense, but Reed's try was fantastic, as was Gagai's.
All in all, a good headache to have for Griffin when he selects his team for the visit to the Panthers... icon_thumbs_u
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The Rock said:
The reason why the kick was missed due to pressure was because of how well he kicked tonight, and how well he has been kicking in the last few weeks. That attempt at goal was diabolical and his worst attempt for months - is it coincidental that it happened to be a kick to win the game? [/quote:ggfjiphv]
You're drawing a long bow inferring any correlation between the two.
Even the best kickers in the game miss kicks under pressure, it has nothing to do with leadership. It's a incredibly difficult kick to take for a goal kicker with that sort of pressure, maybe his goal kicking cracks under pressure but that has nothing to do with his captaincy.
There's not many players in the game who would kick that under that sort of pressure.
