I truly hate J. Robinson with a passion. That idiot needs to be sacked permanently! I lost count of the wrong decisions he made. Actually, the only correct one was the one where he gave us the scrum feed after it was blatantly obvious that he was wrong on the video replay.
Having said that, I won't take anything away from the Warriors, who were on song tonight, not only in their razzle dazzle style of attack, but also very good defensively, which isn't exactly their trade mark.
We also didn't do ourselves any favors, and of course, just when I started complimenting Beale on the right wing, he pulls this shit.
Beale on the wing will probably be our demise in a finals game, where any coach with a semblance of a brain will plan to bomb him all night!
We missed Wallace big time in that second half. He's the best short kicker at the Broncos by a mile, and could have earned us a couple of tries/restarts had he been on the paddock in the second half. Hunt was shocking except for that move where he put Thaiday through for his try. Norman was trying too hard and went away from his natural game. Both will learn from tonight's game.
Credit to McCullough, who was enormous despite a couple of crappy decisions. He still pulled 66 tackles even after he sprained his ankle in the middle of the second half!
All in all, I'm not worried that we lost at Mt Smart by one try only against this Warriors team, and under these circumstances. Still plenty of lessons to be learnt from this...