good to see BHQ jumping back on the hate bandwagon after a loss lol.
I honestly cannot believe that people are saying that Harrison should be dropped or that hes 'out of his depth'! he was easily one of our best last night. took the hard hitups when we needed him too, tackled himself to a standstill, and is always running lines off thurstons shoulder.
and as expected, the slater hate comes out again lol. ooh he dropped 1 bomb, lets drop him!! far out. for most of the game he was on every single kick on the full, reducing the NSW kicking game to an afterthought. he single handedly stopped watmough scoring next to the posts, along with a few other trysavers. he made a 50m+ individual linebreak and almost got us a try from it. but no, he dropped a single bomb so had the worst game ever :roll:
inglis and taylor were the guys who were going to win us that match, running out wide at jamie soward - everytime we went there we almost went through, or did go through. the problem was that neither of them seemed like they actually wanted to do any work. i swear i only saw DT do about 4 runs the entire game.
parker played well IMO, but again, i have to question why hes in the game if hes only getting <40 minutes. bringing cronk on when they did was a bad move IMO.
old butterfingers thaiday was back out there last night too. made about 4-5 stupid mistakes within a 10 minute period that just absolutely killed us. it seemed that every time we would just get into their half or have them trapped in theirs, he would screw up and give them the ball back.
also, the reffing was $hit. numerous late shoulder charges on the QLD kickers that were let go. i dont get it - if you shoulder charge the kicker even while hes kicking, its a penalty........so shouldnt shoulder charging them a second after theyve kicked it be an even more obvious penalty? apparently not if youre wearing a blue jersey.
our play the balls were just atrocious. even when NSW did get off us in less than 6 minutes per tackles, our guys just took their time standing up, made sure their socks were pulled up, adjusted their hair, then put the ball down and casually rolled it back with their foot. they were all taking an absolute eternity!
gotta give credit to NSW. i thought their pack was too light, but we may have just witnessed a masterstroke from Ricky Stuart that might change how State of Origin is played for a while. big forwards are great, but when youve got 5-6 guys almost the same size that can play 80 minutes and are faster, hit harder, and make offloads, running our big boppers ragged.......you see the problem there.
i gotta say, this is the first time in 6 years im not confident at all going into a match, especially at suncorp stadium.